“Super-exciting” is how 10-year-old Sky Brown describes the prospect of making history at next year’s Tokyo Games as the youngest and most audacious British summer Olympian of all.

She has already crammed more into her first decade than most manage in a lifetime, from winning last year’s junior Dancing With The Stars in the US to becoming a social media sensation and raising tens of thousands of dollars to help Cambodian orphans.

But skateboards and surf boards make her happiest of all, and that is why her father Stu is supporting her improbable yet – he insists – eminently realistic attempt to qualify to compete in 2020 in not one but both sports, which will each make their debuts in Tokyo.