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Minna Stess: 14-year-old skateboarding prodigy chases Olympic dream

It's the kind of footage that wouldn't look out of place in any family's video archive, a toddler taking her first tentative steps at the playground.But for the 14-year-old American Minna Stess, the grainy, early footage signals something more momentous. It shows her cautiously trying to climb onto a skateboard, only for it to squirt out beneath her and roll away down the hill. An adorably clumsy chase ensues, and the cycle is repeated again. And again. Pretty much every day of her