Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be held: Skateboarding in the 2020 Olympics will be taking place in the Aomi Urban Venue, in Tokyo. Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics Skateboarding at the 2020 Summer Olympics is an event to be held in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of five sports added specifically for 2020, with no guarantee it will return to the programme in later years. There are 80 quota spots available for skateboarding. Each NOC can obtain a maximum of 3 spots in each event (total 12 maximum across the 4 events). Each event will have 20 competitors
1936 Summer Olympics disruption of the Second World War. The next Olympic Games were held in 1948 (the Winter in Switzerland and then the Summer in London). The bidding for these Olympic Games was the first to be contested by IOC members casting votes for their own favorite host cities. The vote occurred in 1931, during the final years of the Weimar Republic, two years before Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933. Many other cities around the world also wanted to host the Summer Olympics for that year, but except for Barcelona they did not receive any IOC