50-year-old skateboarder Andy Macdonald into 2024 Summer Olympics

Andy Macdonald has teammates younger than his son, as he prepares for an Olympic debut as the oldest skateboarder at the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, but the 50-yar-old great reckons he can still teach them a trick or two.

The California-based father of three has been announced as teammate to 2020 Olympic bronze medalist and world champion Sky Brown, 15, and Lola Tambling, 16.

The first male skateboarder to represent Britain at a Games is unfazed by the age gap, but amazed to get so far with what started out as a long shot.

"It feels pretty surreal," he told Reuters. "I never thought that I would actually qualify for the Games and when I started this process two-and-a-half years ago, it was mostly just like this experiment of 'yeah, maybe I can compete with 14-year-olds, when I'm 50'."

Macdonald is famed for his mastery of the half-pipe vert ramp, but will compete in park skating, a faster-moving discipline, using a three-dimensional bowl.

Securing his berth at the last chance in a qualifier at Budapest, he feels he has something to offer and can learn in return.

"I have an advantage in that I have obviously much more experience in skating in competition, and what it takes to mentally prepare and physically prepare," Macdonald said. "They have the advantage in their youth. They can fall really hard and just bounce right up. They're, like, 'Let's try it again' and if I fell that hard, I would be out for, like, two weeks."

"I have a lot of insight as far as technique and different trick variations that maybe they haven't heard of or haven't thought of yet, and they can try," he added. "I feed off their youth and their energy, because I just try to keep up. I'm 50 years old and when they get all excited, 'Lets go, let's go, keep skating', I'm 'yeah, I got to go and pick up the kids from school'."