By: Summer Lin

Although skateboarder Chloe Covell fractured two of her fingers during a training accident two weeks ago, she is still going for gold at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. During practice for her street skating, she had slipped out, and two of her fingers fully bent back.

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics are a series of games over the Summer. Over 10,000 athletes have descended on the French capital for more than two weeks of competition, patriotism, and potential drama. Covell showed that she wasn’t concerned with her injuries.

“With street skating you don’t grab your board, so it’s pretty chill,” Covell said.

Covell stayed calm as she skated out of the Main Press Centre and up towards the Arc de Triomphe, but she said she was starting to get nervous. Chloe later confessed that she was nervous because this was the biggest stage, the biggest competition she had ever been to, and there were famous people everywhere.
Despite this and her broken fingers, she was still calm. Chloe knew that she could make history in Paris by being the youngest person (14 years old) ever to win a gold.

There are 329 events across 39 sports in the Paris Olympics. In Paris, skateboarding will come by for another appearance at an Olympic Games. The world’s best riders will compete in two forms: street and park. Street skaters start on the ramps and rails on Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, while park riders get to thrill the crowd on Tuesday, August 6, and Wednesday, August 7. Chloe Covell will skate on the street during the games with the hope of winning gold.

Even though she is injured, Chloe is still determined to participate in the Paris Games. Nobody knows whether she will win, but maybe, with determination, she will.

Image Credit by MESSALA CIULLA