Ferreira's long ride to surfing gold

Updated July 27 2021 - 8:56pm, first published 8:53pm
Brazil's Italo Ferreira celebrates after winning the first Olympic men's surfing gold at Tokyo.
Brazil's Italo Ferreira celebrates after winning the first Olympic men's surfing gold at Tokyo.

There can have been few more humble beginnings to an Olympic career than those of Italo Ferreira, who started out surfing on the lid of his father's esky and ended up with a gold medal at the Tokyo Games.

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