Nelson Mandella

‘Sport has the power to change the world’ – Nelson Mandela, 2000 Laureus World Sports Awards

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‘Sport has the power to change the world’ – Nelson Mandela, 2000 Laureus World Sports Awards

Confirmed her potential in 2022 after her Olympic silver medal in Tokyo. The 14-year-old prodigy won her first X-Games gold medal in the street event in Chiba in April, then she followed up with a brilliant victory in the SLS Super Crown, winning all three stops on the tour at Jacksonville, Florida, in July, Seattle, Washington, in August, and Las Vegas, Nevada, in October, before finishing with a winning flourish in Rio de Janeiro, in her home country of Brazil, in November.

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