Skateboarder Sky Brown, gymnast Jessica Gadirova and diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix are the top three contenders for the BBC’s Young Sports Personality of the Year award. Brown, 14, is the current ...

It was resilience on a heroic scale. Sky Brown defied a dislocated shoulder – which popped out two hours before her women’s skateboarding park final – to secure an emotion-fuelled bronze for Britain.

You’ll remember the headlines doing the rounds when Sky Brown was crowned world champ last year: that she already had a million Instagram followers, a published book and a £3m Nike deal; that she had ...