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Fabiola da Silva, winner of 7 X-games gold medals, was featured on a Dew can in United Arab Emirates.

The photo seems to be recent, which is pretty wierd since the x-games don’t support rolling except in asia… Any clues ?

Thanks Alan.K

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The Book of Cool featuring Fabiola da Silva was published in an xmas catalogue called ‘i want one of those’ (thanks to s-r-media from scottishrolling.com for the catalogue shots).

I posted about the Book of Cool in January 2006 (link, don’t miss the Dvd trailer) and purchased it a bit later, here are some photos of the rollerblading part of the book :

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Fabiola bucks trend
Few females giving fringe sports a shot

The Associated Press
Published: Monday, October 30, 2006

Fabiola Da Silva has been around so long that the inline skating pioneer is now more of an anachronism, a back-flipping reminder of the days when women joined men in attempting stunts off a four-metre vertical ramp.

Women are disappearing from alternative sports events such as the X Games and the LG Action Sports World Championships.

Of the 175 athletes who competed this weekend in BMX, skateboarding and inline skating events at the LG event, only eight were women, said Rick Bratman, president of ASA Events, which organizes the action sports tour. There was one event for women, the inline street competition.

This year at the better-known X Games, a mid-season all-star event, there were two events for women. When the X Games started in 1995, there were six.

Although inline skating has high participation rates, it never caught on with die-hard fans when the alternative sports boom hit in the mid-1990s, Bratman said. Part of the reason is that it never developed the rich culture and language that define sports such as skateboarding and surfing.

“It didn’t have any culture,” he said. “It didn’t have its own vibe, its own trick names. It’s not as technical as skateboarding, which is one of the big knocks on it.”

It also doesn’t have much of an infrastructure, lacking the bureaucracy that funnels millions of children into soccer or baseball.

Unlike tennis or volleyball, the sports featured on the action tour don’t fall under the auspices of a national governing body such as the U.S. Olympic Committee, said Donna Lopiano, the CEO of the Women’s Sports Foundation.

Action or extreme sports are run by event promoters who are outside the mainstream of American sports organizations.

At 27, Da Silva’s main competitors from a decade ago have either retired or dropped out. “As the years came down, less girls were competing and it became only like two women,” she said.

The sport’s future is tied to the fortunes of athletes such as Da Silva, someone with potential for the crossover success enjoyed by skateboarder Tony Hawk.

“She’s the real deal,” Bratman said. “Fabiola is in my mind the best female athlete in the world.” source

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Check an edit of Cristina Bonilla, an amazing skater girl from Spain :
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Martina Svobodova is a pioneer in rollerblading. She proved that there didn’t need to be a difference in level between guys and gals, mixing awesome style with technical tricks and spins, matching up to many of the best rollerbladers out there and then overtaking them.

Martina is in her element in street or skatepark, and this was recognised when given a character in “rolling, the game” which included a profile which was a lesson in style to be proud of.

So we are proud to add Martina Svobodova to The Conference pro-team, skating for Deshi and Stygma, a rider any brand would want to have in their line-up. Source

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Fancy is a dutch magazine for girls. They published an article about “Girls and Extreme Sports”. Olga Bouwhuis was featured as inline skater ! Here are the scans of the magazine and more photos of Olga :

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Here is an interview of Fallon Heffernan when she was 13!

Kate: How old are you? And how when did you start skating?

Fallen: I just turned 13, and I’ve been skating for 2 1/2 years, since I was 10.

Kate: Who inspired you to skate?

Fallen: Well my Mom who use to skateboard and my brother who skate boards now.

Kate: No way!!!!!! Your mom skateboards!?

Fallen: Yah, she can do inverts and stuff. And one day she took my brother and me to this other skate park here in Jacksonville called Kona, but I rollerbladed instead.

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