olympic Nyjah Huston is on the road to recovery after a skateboard trick gone horribly wrong.
“A stark reminder of how death-defying it can be to skate massive rails,” Huston, 31, wrote via Instagram on Monday, January 5. “Fractured skull, fractured orbit. Taking it one day at a time.”
In his post on social networks, the olympic The bronze medalist shared pictures of some of his injuries, including a bruised eye, after falling in Tempe, Arizona.
“I hope you had a better New Year than I did,” he added. “We live to fight another day 🙏🏽”.
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After revealing his numerous injuries, Huston received support from a slew of fans, including some athletes who know what it’s like to land in the hospital.
“Heavy. Stay strong; we know you’ll be back,” Tony Hawk he wrote in the comments section. A fellow Olympic figure skater Gustavo Ribeiro she added: “Feel better soon 🙏🏼🙏🏼.”
Ryan Sheckler he also sent his support writing, “Man…prayers for healing bro!”
While Huston already represented the United States in skateboarding at the Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 games, the athlete previously expressed his determination to compete in the upcoming 2028 games in Los Angeles.
Nyjah Huston
Courtesy of Nyjah Huston/Instagram“I’m excited for the Olympics in LA. I’m definitely going to do my best to be there. I plan to be there,” Huston said. Reuters in August 2025. “It helps to have the added motivation of being in Southern California, where I’ve lived for so long and where skateboarding really thrives. It’s SoCal living.”
It is unclear whether Huston’s fractured skull and eye socket will have any impact on his plans to compete in 2028.
Born in Northern California, Huston has developed a loyal following in the skateboarding community after learning the sport on his own through trial and error. By the age of 7, he had signed his first sponsorship deal and by the age of 10 he had won the Tampa Am in 2010.
He has won multiple gold medals at the SLS World Championships and the X Games.
“We really just go out there and it’s up to us what we feel like that day and what we want to push for,” Huston explained. And! news in 2021 about skateboarding. “That’s the fun part about it compared to most other sports out there. There’s so many ways to have fun in it and so many different things and ways to skate and ways to be creative and always change it up and challenge yourself.”
Away from the sport, Huston has been able to experience some once-in-a-lifetime moments, including multiple appearances at the Met Gala and even a cameo in Green Day’s music video for “American Idiot.”
Ultimately, Huston can’t help but return to his first love of skateboarding. After all, every skate is a new experience.
“We’re constantly looking on the side of the road for good sets of stairs or railings or ledges or whatever,” he previously told E! news “We literally see things in such a different way, all the architecture and stuff. That’s the interesting part of skateboarding. We’re out there skating things that aren’t meant to be skated.”