At the age of 51, Macdonald made history as the oldest skateboarder to compete in the Olympics
Britain's Andy Macdonald competes in the men's skateboard park preliminary session during the Paris Olympics, on Aug. 7.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.
Andy Mac and 49-year-old South African Dallas Oberholzer are the older guys in a men’s Olympic competition where the youngest entrant is 16-year-old Viktor Solmunde of Denmark. “My mom’s accepted that I’m an Olympian and a skateboarder at the same time,” he said. “So that’s my greatest accomplishment.”
“I did that for the crowd and it was just about getting to experience and represent for skateboarding,” Macdonald said. “I was trying to represent like, `hey, this is fun no matter what age you are.’ This is like the coolest, funnest, most inclusive thing that you can do.”
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