'I want be that girl that the little girls can show their parents and be like, ’She can skate. I want to be like her,'” Leticia Bufoni of Brazil said.
podium stood three teenage girls — 13, 13 and 16 — with weighty gold, silver and bronze medals around their young necks, rewards for having landed tricks on their skateboards that most kids their age only get to see on Instagram., the future for the sport's daring, trailblazing women suddenly looked brighter than ever at the Tokyo Games on Monday.
A champion of few words — “Simply delighted,” is how she described herself — Nishiya let her board do the talking, riding it down rails taller than she is. She said she'd celebrate by asking her mother to treat her to a dinner of Japanese yakiniku barbecue. But that hasn't always been true for young girls, even among the 20 female pioneers who rode the rails, ramps and ledges at the Ariake Urban Sports Park.
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