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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Ben Bloom

13 and 50: meet Britain’s young-and-old Olympic skateboard double act

Team GB skateboarders Tommy Calvert and Andy Macdonald
Team GB skateboarders Tommy Calvert (left) and Andy Macdonald. Theirs is the biggest age difference between members of any skateboarding team. Photograph: Skateboard GB

When not dropping in off 14-foot vertical ramps, Andy Macdonald’s side hustle involves earning pocket money as a consultant for skateboarding companies looking to crack the youth market. He is ideally suited to the role.

If ever you were to find yourself needing to know what someone like his 13-year-old British teammate, Tommy Calvert, might look for in a new skateboarding product, Macdonald is the man in the know.

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