GB's Brown, 15, and Macdonald, 50, reach Paris 2024

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Skateboarders Sky Brown, Lola Tambling and 50-year-old Andy Macdonald will correspond Team GB astatine nan Paris Olympics aft securing their spots astatine nan Olympic Qualifier Series successful Budapest.

Brown, 15, battled done a knee wounded to seal her qualification, while Tambling, 16, had accrued capable points to suffice arsenic 1 of nan apical 22 skaters contempt not competing successful Sunday's final.

Macdonald, meanwhile, will go his sport’s oldest Olympian aft having his spot rubber-stamped.

Climbers Erin McNeice, 20, and Molly Thompson-Smith, 26, person besides qualified for their debut Olympics.

McNeice vanished 3rd successful nan Boulder and Lead final, while Thompson-Smith, who thought her dream of reaching Paris was complete erstwhile she collapsed her ankle successful 2022, had claimed capable points earlier successful nan title to return nan past qualification spot.

Hamish McArthur did not scope Sunday's last but will subordinate Toby Roberts successful Paris by kindness of having capable points overall.

Like Tambling, Brown was apt to triumph a spot astatine nan Olympics moreover if she did not compete successful Budapest.

The teenager, who won parkland bronze astatine Tokyo 2020, suffered a medial collateral ligament (MCL) tear successful April and had to execute successful a supportive brace.

Her dada Stewart told BBC Sport they had based on astir her competing, but arsenic nan arena wore connected it became clear that her last position would impact whether champion friend Sakura Yosozumi could suffice from Japan.

Brown vanished 2nd successful nan women's parkland arena to guarantee Yosozumi would subordinate her successful Paris.

"We benignant of based on astir 3 weeks ago, [I said] 'Sky, fto your knee heal'. But she really wanted to travel and she promised maine she’d skate benignant of safely," Stewart Brown told BBC Sport.

"Then Sakura sewage knocked retired and we realised if we didn’t thief support nan remainder of nan girls down a spot that she wouldn’t suffice for nan Olympics. She woke up this greeting and said let’s conscionable do this for Sakura."

Sky Brown added: "For Sakura to make it to Paris, I had to decorativeness successful nan apical 2 and everything I conscionable did was each for her. I had thing to suffer and I wanted to skate for Sakura.

"I didn’t usage each my tricks and I'm redeeming immoderate for Paris excessively which is decidedly a assurance boost.

"I'm truthful excited to eat cocoa croissants."

Macdonald, meanwhile, will move 51 5 days aft nan Paris Olympics statesman connected 26 July and says he thought he needed a "miracle" to qualify.

He is an X Games record-holder, is bully friends pinch Tony Hawk and has skated done nan White House, but Paris will people his Olympic debut.

Born successful Massachusetts, he qualifies to compete for Great Britain done his Luton-born father.

"I'm going to Paris, it's beautiful surreal, it's astonishing - specified a happy moment," he told BBC Sport.

"A operation of luck and nan stars and planets aligning. I'm 50 years aged and going to nan Olympics arsenic a skateboarder. Who would person thought it?"

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