{"id":73177,"date":"2025-04-29T10:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/?p=73177"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:35:44","slug":"survival-of-the-sickest-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/survival-of-the-sickest-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival of the Sickest 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the grudgy kids on the corner of the streets, to the cool kids showing off tricks and going to the Olympics, skateboarding is now the trendy sport for the sickest skaters around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survival of the Sickest, the UK\u2019s only junior skateboarding competition took place in Sheffield last saturday for under 12s and under 16s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cassidy Chan went down to have a feel of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Survival of the Sickest 2025\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n5vMeiknPBs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sheffieldwire.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/sheffield-youngsters-compete-in-new-skateboarding-competition\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, junior skaters from across the UK came to Sheffield to battle it out at Survival of the Sickest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[9,409,338,2109],"class_list":["post-73177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watch","tag-sheffield","tag-skateboarding","tag-south-yorkshire","tag-survival-of-the-sickest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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