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With his toxic yellow inline skates on, the
33-year-old gathers speed on the concrete floor, jumps onto a
purpose-built platform to grind his blades sideways on a rail,
does a backflip and lands in front of his gentle-eyed
spectators.
"The cows are my audience. They always support me, they never
boo at me," he said with a grin.
Every now and then, when his duties and the harsh mountain
weather allow it, Pato briefly leaves the tiny village of three
dozen residents to take part in regional freestyle competitions
before human audiences, but the only way he can practice is on
the cattle farm.
"It's just work, work, work, and in my time off I do what I have
always wanted to do. I've always done lots of sports," said Pato,
whose other hobbies include making videos of himself skating, or
of the various animals on the farm with the mountain backdrop.
"Nothing is impossible, one can do everything."
He already has various medals won in the championships hanging
on the wall, but still, when asked what is more important to
him, cows or skating, Pato immediately replied: "Cows".
(Reporting by Eloy Alonso; Writing by Andrei Khalip; Editing by
Gareth Jones)
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