Strong through injury, Skye Brown is now poised to further close the gender gap and win two Games gold at LA28

Skye Brown: Turning injuries into a tangible goal

Pre-Olympic injuries have become an unfortunate legacy for Brown, and since his trip to Tokyo 2020 in 2021, the teenage athlete has had life-threatening injuries. 15 m drop from a vertical ramp In May 2020. The fall resulted in a fractured skull, a broken left wrist and arm, and lacerations to his lungs and stomach.

Brown recovered and went on to win Bronze medal In his Olympic debut.

Four years later, in April, Brown was injured again, this time ahead of Paris 2024. Her medial cruciate ligament (MCL) missed the first leg of the Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) in Shanghai while filming a video segment. When he returned for the final OQS in Budapest in June 2024, his knee was still „not 100 percent” but that didn’t stop Brown from going down to the bowl, getting a knee brace and finishing the tournament. Second place He scored 91.93 points to book his Olympic berth.

Brown couldn’t pull out all his tricks in the Hungarian capital, even as he lamented that he „couldn’t go too hard.” He was back on track with a great performance in Paris.

But there were more obstacles to come. On July 28, a week before the women’s park competition at Paris 2024, the British skater dislocated her shoulder.

On August 6, he fell in the bowl, strapped to his shoulder, and earned his second Olympic bronze medal.

„I wanted to show off my tricks that I’ve been saving for Paris, but I’m having a lot of fun,” Brown said. „I was still in the process of injury, and then to get a medal was definitely a good feeling.”

With multiple injuries in both of her Olympic cycles, Skye Brown asked „why me?” It is natural to ask. The two-time Olympic medalist doesn’t see it that way.

„I think that’s part of my story. Every injury, I feel like I come back stronger What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That’s one of my mottos,” Brown said. „I always take an injury and make the best of it. When I injured my knee, I trained every other part of my body to be as strong as possible when I came back and to use it in the best possible way.