PARIS (AP) — As a child, Rayssa Leal was warned again and again that skateboarding wasn’t for her. “When I was small, many people told me I shouldn’t skate because skate was for boys and ...

After seeing 13-year-old Rayssa Leal from Brazil win silver in the first ... to start flying around a skate park herself. “I nearly cried. Seeing a 13-year-old girl like me win a medal was ...

Rayssa Leal is rocking a sun-bleached black Nike hat with raised bubble letters when she joins our video call. The Brazilian ...

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Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. The 2022 SLS Championship Tour ended with the world championship ...

SAO PAULO--Brazil’s youngest Olympic medallist, Rayssa Leal, arrived home on Wednesday to find a lawyer she did not know had trademarked her nickname because she was worried unscrupulous ...

Sao Paulo’s Kelvin Hoefler’s took the title for the men while Imperatriz’s Rayssa Leal did the same for the women. In the new SLS format for 2023, both riders directly qualified for the next ...