Leal’s success is fuelling a boom in skateboarding - long a sport dominated by men - among women and girls in Brazil, who see themselves soaring to new heights, maybe even at the Olympics.

The U.S. women's soccer team defeated Brazil 2-0 in an international friendly at SoFi Stadium in a game that mostly served as ...

Trinity Rodman scored in the fifth minute of her return from a lengthy injury absence, and the U.S. women’s national team beat Brazil 2-0 in a friendly rematch of the Paris Olympics gold-medal match ...

I just want to be a lovely, lively little girl that I am for the whole Brazil," Leal added. RELATED VIDEO: Simone Biles Withdraws from Olympic Individual All-Around Gymnastics Competition After ...

Andrade is a Black girl from the periferia ... She became the first woman to win an Olympic medal for Brazil in gymnastics, with silver in the all-around competition and gold on vault during ...

“Rebeca is an inspiration to girls in South America and around ... Coming out as the first Brazilian Olympic gymnast, Andrade ...

And, amazing as it sounds, a girl from Ipanema really did inspire Brazilian composer Antonio ... returned to the beach bearing the Olympic torch Friday morning. Read the full story here The ...

Brazilian swimmer Ana Carolina Vieira was sent home by team management for leaving the Olympic Village in Paris ... Only then could I talk to the girl and the psychiatrist - the athlete complained.

The Rio intelligentsia is fascinated by the city’s own poverty, as if the favelas were something Brazil should be proud of, rather than ashamed of. Imagine if the Athens Olympics had highlighted ...