“If you knew my story, you would never believe that I would become the greatest Olympic athlete from Brazil,” Rebeca Andrade, 25, Brazil’s most decorated Olympian and the most successful Latin American gymnast of all time, said last week.
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Seated next to legendary gymnast Nadia Comaneci, she had a room full of journalists enthralled in Madrid, a day ahead of the Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony. Funny, charming and open to giving long, detailed, deeply felt answers to every question
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