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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A politician in Brazil saw the country's 13-year-old athlete <keyword id="11720935" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Rayssa-Leal">Rayssa Leal</keyword> win silver this week.</li><li>He then went to Twitter and suggested this shows children could work if they wanted to.</li><li>His comments have been branded "absurd." Child labor is illegal in Brazil.</li></ul>A Brazilian politician on Twitter this week suggested that 13-year-olds are old enough to work if they're old enough to win Olympic medals at <a href="https://www.insider.com/category/tokyo-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the ongoing Tokyo Games</a>.Sostenes Cavalcante, a 46-year-old lawmaker in Rio de Janeiro for Brazil's Democrats political party on Monday proposed a revision to laws banning child labor in the country.The statute in Brazil does not allow anybody under the age of 14 to working, but Cavalcante said <a href="https://www.insider.com/rayssa-leal-medal-winning-skater-spotted-tony-hawk-on-instagram-2021-7">13-year-old skateboarder Rayssa Leal's silver medal</a> shows younger people could get a job.Brazilian teenager Leal is one of a number of young athletes competing at the Summer Olympics, and made history as the youngest medalist in the past 85 years for her routine in the street competition."Brazilian children aged 13 cannot work, but skater Rayssa Leal won the silver medal at the Olympics," <a href="https://twitter.com/DepSostenes/status/1419525598423224321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cavalcante said in Portuguese on Twitter</a>.He added: "Hey! It's for thinking. Congratulations to our Olympic medalist! And revision of the Statute of Children and Adolescents now!"It is unclear if Cavalcante was serious, but his comment sparked wild backlash on social media.A Brazilian diplomat, Paulo Pinheiro Jr., called Cavalcante's comment "absurd."Pinheiro said: "What distorted view of reality is it to think that a child playing <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword> is the same thing as a child working?"Do you think both girls in the photo are playing the same 'role' in society? This false symmetry is absurd!"A Brazilian senator called Paulo Rocha also called it "absurd" saying Cavalcante was taking "advantage of the 13-year-old athlete's victory" to defend child labor."There is no comparison between child labor and Rayssa's medal. Children must study, play, play sports. Working means not having time for any of this."According to <a href="https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2021/07/26/interna_politica,1290008/apos-medalha-de-rayssa-deputado-quer-criancas-de-13-anos-trabalhando.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a report in the Estado de Minas website</a>, there are approximately 2.5 million children between five and 17 years old who are working illegally in Brazil. Jobs include domestic work, agriculture, civil construction, and drug trafficking.

A Brazilian politician suggested 13-year-olds are old enough to work if they're old enough to win Olympic medals

<ul class="summary-list"><li>13-year-old Rayssa Leal won silver in the women's street <keyword id="1250010" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="skateboarding">skateboarding</keyword> at the <keyword id="395647" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo-Olympics">Tokyo Olympics</keyword>.</li><li>Six years ago, she caught the attention of skating legend Tony Hawk on Instagram.</li><li>Hawk had shared a video of Leal performing a trick while wearing a princess dress. </li></ul>Almost six years ago, Brazilian skater Rayssa Leal caught the attention Tony Hawk with a video of her performing a trick while dressed as a fairy princess.Roll forward to 2021, and the now 13-year-old has just won a silver medal at the Olympic Games.Leal finished second in the women's street skateboarding in Tokyo on Monday to become the youngest athlete in the history of Brazil win an Olympic medal.<a href="https://www.insider.com/13-year-old-nishiya-claims-gold-in-olympics-womens-skateboarding-2021-7">Japan's Momiji Nishiya, also 13, took home gold.</a>"Now I can convince all my friends to skateboard everywhere with me," Leal said.Leal's ascension to the pinnacle of skateboarding began almost six years ago when Hawk, a 10-time X Games gold medalist, shared a video of her heel flipping down a set of stairs while dressed in a bright blue princess dress.The video, filmed in her native Brazil, went viral after Hawk shared it.Prior to her medal winning performance at the Ariake Urban <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">Sports</keyword> Park, Leal shared a series of photos of herself and Hawk to Instagram."Six years ago he introduced me to the world of skateboarding by sharing my video wearing a fairy costume," she said. "Today, he filmed me at the Olympics. "This is all so amazing, I'm living a dream! Thank you @tonyhawk to being so kidding and always motivating me."Hawk commented on the photos, praising Leal and her accomplishments."You have exceeded all expectations!," he said. "It's been an honor to be involved in some small way. And thanks for the clips!"

A 13-year-old skater who just won silver in Tokyo first found fame when Tony Hawk spotted her on Instagram

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Thirteen-year-old Momiji Nishiya claimed Olympic victory in the women's <keyword id="1250010" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="skateboarding">skateboarding</keyword> event, making her one of the youngest gold medallists ever. </li><li>Thirteen-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal and 16-year-old Funa Nakayama of Japan won silver and gold. respectively. </li><li>This is the first time skateboarding is being included in the Olympics. </li></ul>Thirteen-year-old skateboarder Momiji Nishiya of Japan claimed victory on Monday in the women's street skateboarding event at the <keyword id="395647" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tokyo-Olympics">Tokyo Olympics</keyword>, making her one of the youngest-ever Olympic gold medalists. Not only is she one of the games' youngest competitors, but she is also Japan's youngest-ever gold medalist, reported <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2021/07/26/olympics/summer-olympics/skateboarding/nishiya-nakayama-skateboarding/">Japan Times</a>. In street skateboarding, competitors attempt various tricks in a course that mimics a street with handrails, stairs, curbs, benches, and walls. In the women's street skateboarding event, the competition came down to Nishiya and 13-year old Rayssa Leal from Brazil at the Ariake Urban Sports Park in Tokyo. Leal botched her landing coming down a rail, while Nishiya nailed her landing, ushering her to Olympic victory. The Osaka native won with a score of 15.26, while Leal took home silver with 14.64, and 16-year-old Funa Nakayama, also from Japan, took home bronze with a score of 14.49.The pair of 13-year-old gold and silver medalists congratulated each other after the competition with an embrace. Speaking to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkf9cdT-py4">Nikkan Sports</a> after her historic win, Nishiya said she wasn't sure she would pull it off halfway through her run but received encouragement from the people around her. Commenting on this year's Olympics, the 13-year-old said competing in the games " didn't feel too different from the other competitions I've been to, tension-wise," adding, "I really wanted to try to skate my best and not give up until the end."This is the first time skateboarding has been included in the Olympics, and it's been a clean sweep for Japan so far. In Sunday's men's street event, 22-year-old Yuto Horigome edged out Brazilian Kelvin Hoefler and American Jagger Eaton to win gold. According to Guinness World Records, the record for youngest gold medalist is still held by US diver Marjorie Gestring, who participated in the Summer Games in 1936 when she was 13 years and 268 days old. Nishiya was aged 13 years and 330 days on Monday.

13-year-old Momiji Nishiya wins gold in Olympics women's street skateboarding, becoming one of the youngest gold medallists in Olympic history

<ul class="summary-list"><li>It's a case of in with the old and in with the new at the Olympics Games.</li><li>This is because a 66-year-old, and a 12-year-old, are competing in separate events in Tokyo.</li><li>One 13-year-old has already won gold.</li></ul>There's a 54-year age gap between the oldest and youngest athlete at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.Following Friday's opening ceremony and Parade of Nations, a number of the world's top <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">sports</keyword>people have competed in a variety of events including traditional sports like swimming, and new ones like skateboarding.Some of the headlines have been generated by the extraordinary participants at the games like a Syrian 12-year-old called Hend Zaza, who made history as the youngest Olympian since 1968.Zaza had to overcome numerous obstacles in her homeland as she trained through power cuts caused by civil war to qualify aged 11 for this summer's Olympics.Zaza lost in the first round Saturday but, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/57952235" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the BBC</a>, said: "My message to everyone who wishes to have the same situation: Fight for your dreams."If Zaza represents part of the youth at this year's Games, then Mary Hanna represents the experience because, at 66, the Australian is the oldest Olympian this summer.A grandmother, Hanna competes in her seventh Games and is the second-oldest woman to ever participate in the Olympics.Hanna's specialty sport is the equestrian discipline of dressage. She's been to every Olympics since 1996, and entered the Olympic Dressage arena Sunday to take part in the team dressage tournament in 2021.<h2>One young queen has already been crowned</h2><div type="image" title="Momiji Nishiya of Team Japan celebrates during the Women's Street Final on day three of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Urban Sports Park on July 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan." height="2085" width="3062" msid="84758425" hostid="261"></div>Momiji Nishiya of Team Japan became one of the youngest gold medal-winners of all time <a href="https://www.insider.com/13-year-old-nishiya-claims-gold-in-olympics-womens-skateboarding-2021-7">when she won the Olympic title in the women's skateboarding event Monday.</a>Skateboarding is a debuting sport at this summer's Games and it is one in which young people are thriving, <a href="https://www.insider.com/rayssa-leal-medal-winning-skater-spotted-tony-hawk-on-instagram-2021-7">as 13-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal</a>, and 16-year-old Funa Nakayama of Japan, came second and third, respectively.<a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2021/07/26/olympics/summer-olympics/skateboarding/nishiya-nakayama-skateboarding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Japan Times</a>, Nishiya is the youngest gold medalist from that country.Other young athletes at the Olympics include American sprinter Erriyon Knighton, who is 17, American swimmer Katie Grimes, who is 15, and Chinese diver Quan Hongchan, who is 14.

There's a 54-year age gap between the oldest and youngest athlete at this year's Olympics

<ul class="summary-list"><li>13-year-old <keyword id="9332229" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Sky-Brown">Sky Brown</keyword> became Great Britain's youngest ever Olympic medalist on Tuesday.</li><li>Now, athletes and fans are jokily sharing memories of what they were doing at Brown's tender age.</li><li>"When I was 13 I was in my room all day playing RuneScape," tweeted Team GB gold winner <keyword id="2446113" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Adam-Peaty">Adam Peaty</keyword>.</li></ul><a href="https://www.insider.com/tokyo-olympics-skateboarder-sky-brown-youngest-british-summer-olympian-2021-7">13-year-old Sky Brown</a> became Great Britain's youngest ever Olympic medalist on Tuesday when she won bronze in the women's park <keyword id="1250010" type="SPORT" weightage="60" keywordseo="skateboarding">skateboarding</keyword> final in Tokyo.Now, athletes and fans are jokily sharing memories of what they were doing at Brown's tender age.Spurred by a question posed on the BBC's live text feed of Olympic action, a number of prominent Brits shared their teenage experiences, including three-time Olympic gold medalist Adam Peaty.Peaty wrote on Twitter that he spent most of his formative years playing "Runescape" - a popular online role-playing game similar to World of Warcraft."When I was 13 I was in my room all day playing RuneScape (with a bit of swimming)," the Team GB star wrote. "This is a crazy achievement."Others to chime in included British actor and comedian Suzanna Kempner, BBC duo Claire Carter and Ben Shires, and Labour Member of Parliament Charlotte Nichols."Me at 14 still striving to be an Olympic gymnast even though I was absolutely dogs--- at it vs Sky Brown at 13 winning an Olympic bronze medal," tweeted Kempner alongside photos of her younger self and Brown.<a href="https://twitter.com/BenShires/status/1422835947905953793">Shires said</a> that at 13 years old he was "winning the treble on [soccer video game] Football Manager" <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire7Carter/status/1422828136522264577">while Carter said:</a> "At 13 I was finally allowed to get my ears pierced."Nichols tweeted: "At 13 I wasn't even particularly good at Tony Hawk's Pro-Skater 4 on Gamecube; this is an absolutely unbelievable achievement. Congratulations Sky Brown!"Brown, aged 13 years and 23 days, produced a brilliant final run to finish third in Tuesday's women's park final.In winning bronze, she replaced swimmer Sarah Hardcastle as Britain's youngest ever Olympic medalist. Hardcastle was 15 years and 113 days when she won silver and bronze at the 1984 Olympics in in Los Angeles."It was a super sick final," <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58082535">Brown told BBC Sport after the event.</a> "All the girls were ripping it, it was insane."This is incredible - it feels unreal! I'm so happy to be here. I'm blessed. I was definitely bumped. I fell twice, that made the last run feel even better."Amazingly, however, Brown wasn't the youngest person on the podium.12-year-old Kokona Hiraki from Japan claimed silver, while compatriot Sakura Yosozumi, 19, won gold.In the two women's skateboarding events held at Tokyo so far, no medalist has been older than 20. During the street competition earlier in the games, <a href="https://www.insider.com/rayssa-leal-medal-winning-skater-spotted-tony-hawk-on-instagram-2021-7">the podium comprised 13-year-olds Momiji Nishiya and Rayssa Leal</a>, and 16-year-old Funa Nakayama.

Athletes and fans are jokily sharing what they were doing at 13 after a teenage phenom became one of the youngest Olympic medalists ever

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Young competitors swept the Olympic skateboarding events at the Tokyo games. </li><li>Experts told Insider that being young can be a significant advantage for skateboarding.</li><li>But as the <keyword id="6381828" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sport">sport</keyword> becomes more competitive, this could all change, one expert said.</li></ul>At the Women's Park skateboarding champions at the Tokyo <keyword id="6360967" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="olympics">Olympics</keyword>, the podium was two teens and a 12-year-old.Bronze went to <a href="https://www.insider.com/sky-brown-olympic-bronze-medal-adam-peaty-teenage-story-2021-8">13-year-old Sky Brown of Great Britain</a>. Japan's Kokona Hiraki, 12, got silver and Sakura Yosozumi, 19, also of Japan, took gold. "Skateboarding is a great and strange and amazing sport," Neil Ellis, head of engagement for UK sporting body Skateboard GB, told Insider. The Tokyo games were the first time it has been an Olympic event."At the Olympics, the peak of a competitive skateboarding, you had people competing at the age of 12 competing, but you also had people at the age of 46."The success of young competitors in Tokyo is remarkable: here is a rundown of everyone under 20 who finished in the top 5 at an event:Men's park: Keegan Palmer, Australia, 19 - 1st Men's park, Kieran Woolley, Australia, 17 - 5thWomen's park: Sakura Yosozumi, Japan, 19 - 1st Women's park: Kokona Hiraki, Japan, 12 - 2nd Women's park: Sky Brown, Great Britain, 13 - 3rd Women's park: Misugu Okamoto, Japan, 15 - 4th Women's street: Momiji Nishiya, Japan, 13 - 1st Women's street: Rayssa Leal, Brazil, 13 - 2nd Women's street: Anup Soni, Japan, 16 - 3rd(No teens won big in the men's street event.)Insider spoke to experts about why this sport is well-suited to younger athletes who are still developing physically. Although it is an advantage now, one said that the sport could soon change to favor older skaters.<div type="image" title="Japan's Momiji Nishiya smiles after winning gold at Tokyo 2020." height="1790" width="2387" msid="85106592" hostid="261"></div><h2>Being smaller can be an advantage</h2>Having a smaller body can confer some physical advantages for a sport like skateboarding, said Anette (Peko) Hosoi, Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering and lead scientist on the MIT <keyword id="6356028" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="sports">Sports</keyword> Lab."For any tricks that require rotation, a more compact body will have a smaller moment of inertia," she told Insider.This basically means it requires less energy for them to spin."The classic example is a figure skater spinning. When their arms are out (so they're "bigger") they spin more slowly; when they bring their arms in, they reduce their moment of inertia and they spin faster," she said.The body's center of gravity is also closer to the board. "That definitely helps with spin tricks because you're close to the ground, you're close to your board," Ellis said. "But it isn't everything, because, with a lot of spin tricks, people will grab the board" to bring the center of gravity closer to the board and make the spin easier. As can be seen in Brown's routine below, rotation is a big part of skateboarding competitions.Phil Price, a lecturer in Strength and Conditions at St. Mary's University in London, who also coaches athletes, told Insider that a slim frame helps as well as being short.Think of comparing American football players to basketball players. Many football players have a wider rib cage and wider hips, which helps provide stability and that in turn helps developing force. Basketball players, on the other hand, tend to have narrow hips and rib cages. That helps with the rotation at the hips, which makes them be more springy and react quickly, he said.<div type="image" title="Keegan Palmer, performing a skateboarding trick" height="1333" width="1777" msid="85106595" hostid="261"></div><h2>Older athletes are stronger. That can be a blessing and a curse.</h2>According to Price, strength can be a limiting factor in a skill-based sport like skateboarding. "You need to be strong enough - and then anything above that could be detrimental to performance," he said.Because gravity plays a big part in the sport, and muscles are heavy, the strongest person won't necessarily be the best."Ultimately who makes it to the top? It isn't like all the stronger athletes are getting there or all the weaker athletes are getting there. It's how that athlete has the ability to find the way of performing that skill," he said, adding: "It's more of a problem-solving thing."Strength, however, gives you speed and height while jumping.To go faster, skateboarders can pump the skateboard, which is a way of accelerating without taking feet off the board, as can be seen in the video below (the relevant part starts at 1.08 minutes):"Being larger probably helps with this," Hosoi said.The stronger muscles you have, the higher you can go, said Ellis of Skateboard GB. "You will notice that with a lot of younger skaters, they will be able to get the nice 360 spins or the 540 spins," he said. But they lack the strength to get high enough for further rotations.<h2>Skateboarding lends itself to specializing early</h2>There is a reason why younger athletes tend to be found in certain sports, Price said. They are sports where athletes can specialize early."If the sport is very skillful and doesn't necessarily require a huge type of physical output for it to be able to perform those skills, then those skills can be learned earlier."In other sports that depend less on skill and more on power, like rugby or rowing, athletes have to develop their body before they can seriously start training.But for sports like rock climbing and gymnastics, the skills can be learned early, at four, five or six. "So by the time they're eight years old, they're incredibly competent. Give them another five, six years of practice, say that they're now 13, a bit like Sky [Brown], then all of a sudden they are at that elite level," Price said.Another reason for the success of younger athletes in women's skateboard could simply be cultural. Until recently, girls only started picking up skateboarding at around 13 or 14, <a href="https://inews.co.uk/sport/olympics/skateboarding-olympics-tokyo-2020-schedule-rules-team-gb-new-sport-sky-brown-bombette-martin-1107887" rel="nofollow sponsored">BBC commentator Ed Leigh told the i newspaper</a>. "So the skill acquisition process was taking longer," he said. "But girls have been starting to learn at four, five, six, the gender barrier has disappeared," Leigh said.Younger athletes can quickly pick up new skills, Ellis said, which could give an advantage to those who started younger."The likes of Sky Brown, for example, joined the GB team a couple of years ago...the amount she's progressed in those two years is absolutely phenomenal. Whereas myself, a 39-year-old skateboarder, I would see myself, like, getting worse in that two-year period," he said."Bombette Martin [who is 15] was another great example. She was almost unknown to the world about a year ago," he said. Martin was part of the UK's Women's park Olympics team this year.<div type="image" title="Kokona Hiraki doing a trick on a railing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics games" height="1325" width="1766" msid="85104824" hostid="261"></div><h2>Mindset is key, and younger athletes are less scared of getting hurt</h2>"There's a good saying: it doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't buy a trick, you have to pay with pain," Leigh, the BBC commentator, said.Falling is an essential part of skills acquisition in skateboarding, so being able to recover quickly is vital. Brown, the 13-year-old bronze medalist, had a terrible accident in 2020, leaving her with skull fractures, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/aug/04/sky-brown-olympic-medal-skateboard-bronze-2020">lacerated lungs, and a broken left arm.</a>"She is obviously someone with an excellent ability to avoid negative thoughts creeping in, to be able to get back to that level quickly," Price said. But beyond her natural ability, her youth probably also helped. Recovering from an injury well enough to be in a competing state is 50% physical and 50% mental, Price said. Athletes are distinguished by their ability to keep negative thoughts out of their head and focus on constructive thoughts like "I will not get injured again," Price said. <div type="image" title="Misugu Okamoto raises her hands while being carried on the shoulders of other skaters at the Tokyo Olympics" height="1333" width="1777" msid="85106600" hostid="261"></div><h2>Skating has great vibes, and competitors help each other</h2>Another factor that might have played in the success of those on the podium is that skateboarding is not a sport that is heavily driven by competition. "Every time I speak to a journalist, they're like always saying: 'can we speak to this person's coach... but in skateboarding generally, we don't have coaches," Ellis said. "In the US they do have coaches, but most people will just train with their friends."A big part of learning in skateboarding is just peer-to-peer, and so training with the frontrunners can be a huge advantage."The top three Japanese girls and Sky Brown all skate together. They hang out together in the US, Sky goes over to Japan and skates with them," he said."That helps them progress," he said<div type="image" title="Sky brown leans her head on Sakura Yosozumi as she holds her medal on the podium with Sakura Kokona Hiraki" height="1331" width="1780" msid="85104825" hostid="261"></div><h2>Elite contests could transform the sport</h2>Competition isn't a huge part of skateboarding. Early-specialization sports like skateboarding tend to be more about hanging out with friends than victory at all costs.What tends to happen as a sport becomes more popular is that <keyword id="41551" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="science">science</keyword> and money combine to optimize performance, Price said.With better funding, coaches can seek out advanced methods to better understand performance, and in turn lengthen the length of time their competitors stay on top.Price takes tennis as an example: in the 90s, younger athletes were winning grand slams. That was the case for likes of Boris Becker, who won at 17, and Martina Hingis, 15."Back in the day, people were: 'oh, you're 30. It's time to think about retiring the next few years'," Price said. But now elite tennis players compete well into their 30s."Will culture change, climbing or skateboarding the way it changed tennis, for example? It will be interesting to see where it goes."

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