Youngest Medalist Returns from Tokyo 2020 – Telemundo El Paso (48)

SAO PAULO – Brazilian Rayssa Leal, a silver medalist in skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics at the age of 13, announced this Wednesday that she canceled the reception scheduled upon arrival in Imperatriz, her hometown, due to the coronavirus pandemic. which has already killed more than 551,000 people in the country.

“As we are still in a delicate moment due to the covid, I decided to cancel the reception of my arrival in Imperatriz to avoid crowds. So please avoid going to the airport,” said the very young Olympic runner-up in a video published on her social networks .

Leal, who went down in history as the youngest Brazilian medalist in the Games, assured that she would like “very much” to receive “the affection” of her followers, but considered that “it is not the right moment” for it.

“I am very grateful for all that affection, for all the support, but take care, use a mask, alcohol gel and take the vaccine, I am sure that we will soon defeat this virus,” he said.

Brazil is the Latin American country hardest hit by COVID-19, the second in the world with the most deaths related to the disease and the third with the most positive cases (19.7 million), behind only the United States and India.

Leal arrived this Wednesday from Tokyo at Guarulhos International Airport, in the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, where she was received by a large number of media.

Japanese Momiji Nishiya became the first skateboard queen at the Olympics, who is barely a teenager.

From Guarulhos, he will head to the Prefeito Renato Moreira airport, in Imperatriz, his hometown, located in the Brazilian state of Maranhao (northeast), where the local authorities had prepared an official reception to celebrate his conquest.

Leal won the silver medal in the women’s Olympic skate street final, a sport that premiered at these Tokyo 2020 Games. The gold went to the Japanese Momiji Nishiya, also 13 years old, while her compatriot Yuto Horigome took the bronze .

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