Quack it up for the Olympian champ!
Arisa Trew, a 14-year-old skateboarder, competed in girls’s landscape skateboarding on the 2024 Paris Olympics and was hoping to win greater than a gold medal.
“My parents promised if I won the gold medal, I would get a pet duck,” she stated at a press conference. “They are really cute, then I can take it on walks and take it to the skate park.”
Upcoming scoring a 93.18 on her final run, Trew knew her want for a duckling can be hatched.
“My parents definitely wouldn’t let me get a dog or a cat because we are traveling so much right now,” the teenager instructed Australia’s Nine.com.au. “But I feel like a duck might be a little bit easier, and … I don’t know, I just want a duck.”
Her Aug. 7 gold win used to be ancient, as she is the youngest Australian Olympic medallist now, passing Sandra Morgan, who nabbed the supremacy prize for swimming in 1956 on the era of 14 years and 183 days.
Trew claimed her gold medal on the era of 14 years and 86 days.
The younger skater remainder the one girl to land a 720, two entire rotations, in pageant and the only girl to ever land a 900, reported “Today.”
“It feels amazing having the gold medal around my neck,” she stated. “It’s been my goal since watching the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. That inspired me and made me want to come to this Olympics and get to the podium.”
Trew kick-flipped her approach into the skateboarding international at 8 years vintage nearest in search of an process she may take part in year-round, in contrast to browsing, a prevailing game in Australia.
Right through the yr, {the teenager} sharpens her skateboard talents at LVLUP, an academy and college at the Gold Coast of Australia, generation additionally that specialize in lecturers.
Assuming her folks apply up on their contract, she is going to now need to break a few of her consideration along with her minute duckling at the approach.
With just about all her geese in a row, Trew has something left to do: title her pristine puppy.
Her first selection? Goldie.
