The first female skateboarder to represent Canada at the Olympics, Guglia, 32, is the new president of Canada Skateboard
Olympic skateboarder Annie Guglia is on an epic month-long summer road trip spanning Montreal to Vancouver, travelling in a Dodge Ram van with her girlfriend and their two dogs.
“It wasn’t always seen as a good thing – making skateboarding more accessible to everybody – because some people liked that it was a closed environment and an outsider culture,” Guglia said. “But I think the mindset is changing towards diversity, equity, inclusion. I love seeing skateboarding go everywhere. Skateboarding is for everybody.”
“As skateboarders we’ve always wanted to make sure our national organization is done the right way, and [that] the essence of skateboarding stays and that the skateboarders felt represented,” Guglia told The Globe and Mail in an interview during that trip to Toronto, at an indoor park called Skate Loft.
This past Wednesday was both Go Skateboarding Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day, so Guglia spent it at a sprawling new skatepark in the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne, south of Cornwall, Ont., showing skills to kids and handing out white Vans skateboarding shoes for them to paint. This weekend, she will host free trick clinics at Dufferin Grove Skatepark during Pride celebrations with Queer Skate Toronto, a collective of queer and allied skateboarders.
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