Skateboarder Sky Brown has told how she nearly didn't try to qualify for the 2020 Olympics.

The 11-year-old, who has been nominated for the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year, said: "We weren't going to do the Olympics because my parents thought it was too much pressure but then Team GB's Lucy Adams text [sic] my dad and said that there was no pressure, just to get out there and have fun.

"We talked and I said 'daddy can I do it please' and he was like 'alright'."

Brown, who was talking to BBC Five Live, lives in Japan and America but can compete for GB as her father is British.

She all but secured qualification for Tokyo 2020 after winning a bronze medal at the Park World Skateboarding Championships in Brazil.

The young athlete has said she is perfecting a new trick for the games. She said: "I have a lot of tricks I'm working on. I can do a 'frontside 540' [spinning towards the heels], but I'm trying to learn backside."

Looking ahead to Tokyo, she said: "It's going to be so cool. I think it's cool because we can show what skateboarding is all about and how creative you can be.

"I also think it's cool because a lot of people are going to watch it and see that, if a little girl can do it I can do it too."

The star said the only things she isn't good at are "brushing my teeth, tidying my room and folding my clothes".