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Arisa Trew might solely be 14 years previous, however the teenager has already made historical past on the 2024 Paris Olympics because the youngest Australian to win a medal. And, the skateboarding champ has an uncommon request as a reward for her accomplishment.
Trew, who secured the gold in girls’s park skateboarding on Tuesday, August 6, stated in a press convention following her victory that she desires nothing greater than a pet duck — and that her mother and father have promised her she might get one.
“Geese are actually cute and I actually needed a pet duck,” Trew associated.
Talking to Australian information outlet 9 Information, she additional defined, “My mother and father positively wouldn’t let me get a canine or a cat as a result of we’re touring a lot proper now. However I really feel like a duck is perhaps a little bit bit simpler, and… I don’t know, I simply need a duck.”
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“It can simply be in my yard and I’ll get a little bit pool factor for it,” she added.
The Queensland teen, who scored 93.18 on her last run on the Video games and has attracted the eye of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, defined how she acquired into the game of skateboarding on the age of 8.
“It was as a result of I surfed loads, and I nonetheless do surf a lot now when I’ve time, however in winter it acquired too chilly,” she famous. “So my dad took me to the skate park and I simply began skating, and I beloved it from then. It was simply numerous enjoyable, and difficult, and simply one thing to do after college.”
Trew, who says she intends to compete in Los Angeles on the 2028 Video games, can also be pleased with being a woman in a sport that’s regularly seeing an increasing number of girls take part.
“Once I began skating there weren’t quite a lot of lady skaters round my age, so I skated with many of the boys extra,” she instructed 9 Information on Tuesday. “Then after I acquired to 10 there have been much more lady skaters.”
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Trew’s mother and father, dad Simon and mother Aiko, who had been in France to cheer on their daughter’s first flip on the Olympics, instructed the outlet they had been with out phrases for his or her daughter’s win at Paris’ La Concorde.
Her father attributed the win to “simply going out and having enjoyable and having fun with the game and, yeah, simply being energetic and having a very good time.”
“That’s all we’ve ever inspired her to do,” he stated. “Have buddies and luxuriate in skating, browsing, every little thing.”
