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Hannah Bailey

Dean Lane is a concrete lover’s dream, with ramps and banks, curved bowl corners and a huge pump bump in the middle.

Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire, Wales is the local park for WCMX (wheelchair motocross) champion Lily Rice, who advocates for accessibility in skateparks.

BIPOC- and queer-led skate crew Melanin Skate Gals & Pals runs sessions at London's Queen Elizabeth Park on a weekly basis.

Will Ascott is a skater and founder of Free Movement Skateboarding, an NGO that runs skate sessions and programmes for refugees and at-risk youth in Athens.

The abandoned rapids of the Hellinikon Olympic Canoe/Kayak Slalom Centre present an ideal space in which to skate.

The disciplines of street and park skateboarding make their debut at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But it’s an exposure that many of the sport’s core participants feel isn’t in the spirit of skateboarding — one of freedom and individualism.