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Two primary school pupils managed to get the Great Olympic Skate Roadshow to visit their school in Invercargill.

The skateboard is 12 metres long and weighs 800 kilograms. It is named Eke Tahi, which means “Ride as One”. It celebrates the fact that for the first time in Olympic history, skateboarding will be featured at the 2020 Toyko Games. Skateboarder Matthew Markland​ who is in the national street skating team and is travelling the country with the board, hopes to represent New Zealand in the event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Braden Fastier/Stuff Street skater Matt Markland hopes to represent New Zealand in the event at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He said skateboarding at the Olympics would f...

New Zealand Olympic Committee commercial director Sharon van Gulik said skateboarders Bowman Hansen​ and Matthew Markland​ were taking Eke Tahi on a 41-day tour around 45 New Zealand towns and cities, joined by the Black Sticks men’s and women’s hockey teams, to celebrate the news and promote New Zealand’s Tokyo 2020 team. The roadshow began at Kaikohe West School and would travel down to Invercargill before heading back to Auckland for its final stop in June. The skateboard was in Palmerston North for one day only. David Unwin/Stuff Olympic skateboarding prospects Bowman Hansen ...

The skateboard will be at Napier's Bay Skate from 9am to noon on Saturday.

Giant skateboard dropping in to BOP Future Olympic hopeful’s Matt Markland and Bowman Hansen standing on the giant skateboard, Eke Tahi. Photos. John Borren/SunLive. '); } else { // } New Zealand’s Olympic Committee is hoping Kiwi’s will go goofy for skateboarding ahead of the Tokyo Olympics this summer. The Great Olympic Skate Roadshow is trucking around Aotearoa, visiting 45 towns in 41 days, aiming to subvert the general public’s preconceptions of the new sports entering this year. To do so, the roadshow has the aid of a giant, 800kg, 12-metre long ska...