Skateboarding, a fan favorite at the Olympics, was once banned in Brazil

The noise of board wheels on hard surfaces once signaled the encroachment of marginality into urban spaces. This was the perception of skateboarding in Brazil when it first arrived in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1960s. The Brazilian Skateboarding Confederation (CBSK) states that the sport, then called ‘surfinho,’ was inspired by surfing. Brazilians traveling
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