Andy Macdonald may have spent decades as a professional skateboarder, but the veteran athlete was an excited newcomer at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Aug. 7, the 51-year-old Macdonald was cheered on by ...

A 51-year-old American skateboarder became the oldest ever to compete in the Olympic Games — and broke that record Wednesday while representing the British team. Massachusetts native Andy Macdonald ...

PARIS – Andy Macdonald brought an electric-powered skateboard with him to the Olympics. “So I can zip around the village, because the village is huge,” Macdonald said of his home for the past week.

Andy Macdonald was already a skateboarding veteran, with over 20 X Games gold medals, before he stepped into the Place de la Concorde on Wednesday Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at ...

PARIS — In Olympic terms, Andy Macdonald has a whole lot more in common with the ancient statues of gods and kings that line the Place de la Concorde than he has with his fellow skateboarders. He’s ...

It is the story of a 51-year-old trailblazer and two 16-year-olds who are younger than one of his children. It is also the unlikely composition of a British Olympic skateboarding team for the Paris ...

PARIS (AP) — It didn’t matter to 51-year-old Andy Macdonald that he was among the lower-ranked finishers in the men’s park skateboarding competition at the Paris Olympics. He still considers himself a ...

The pandemic forced all manner of career rethinks for millions of people around the world. Few of those adjustments would have involved becoming an Olympian at the age of 51. But that is exactly what ...

Skateboarder Andy Macdonald competed in another Summer Olympics in Paris this year — and at 51 years old, he is also wrapping up his last. On Wednesday, Aug. 7, the British-American who was competing ...

PARIS – Andy Macdonald brought an electric-powered skateboard with him to the Olympics. “So I can zip around the village, because the village is huge,” Macdonald said of his home for the past week.