Kathmandu, June 15 -- The world is currently busy with the FIFA World Cup. It is all about football in Nepal, too. But, for around a couple of hundred children, teenagers and youths in this mountainous country, which is very far from playing in its maiden football World Cup, the last two days have only been about juggling skateboards at the newly constructed Yama Buddha Skate Park in Kathmandu.

Yama Buddha Skate Park, where the park is completed but two administrative buildings are under construction, hosted the 9th National Skateboard Championship, which saw 250 skateboarders from different parts of the country competing across three categories-100 junior boys, 50 senior girls and 100 senior boys.

The organiser-Nepal Skating and Skateb...