Ezra Shaw Getty Images skateboarding is an Olympic discipline. After the Rio 2016 games, the IOC accepted that skateboarding, baseball, surfing, karate and climbing will be present at the Tokyo 2020 Games. Skateboarding will be an Olympic sport for the first time in Tokyo due to the growing interest in urban sports. Skateboarding was first practiced in the 1940s and has increased in popularity until today. Being an urban sport, Skateboarding’s Olympic debut continues! �� This morning the women of the first-ever Brazilian and Japanese skateboarding teams hit the Ariake Urban Sports Park to get acquainted with the street course. Who will be the first women's Olympic skateboarding gold medallist? pic.twitter.com/RFCFbpHVgx