Teen Olympic Skateboarder’s Mother and father Promised Her a Pet Duck If She Received, Earns Gold Medal

Skateboarder Arisa Trew made historical past on Tuesday, Aug. 7 on the 2024 Paris Olympics because the youngest Australian to win a medal, and she or he could have one thing particular ready for her at dwelling: a pet duck.

Throughout a press conference after her victory, the 14-year-old stated her mother and father promised her she might get a pet duck if she gained a gold medal. 

“Geese are actually cute and I actually needed a pet duck,” Trew informed reporters when requested about her unconventional reward alternative.

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“My mother and father undoubtedly would not let me get a canine or a cat as a result of we’re touring a lot proper now,” Trew additionally informed Australia’s Nine News. “However I really feel like a duck could be slightly bit simpler, and… I do not know, I simply need a duck.”

Trew earned her gold medal in ladies’s park skateboarding on Tuesday after scoring a 93.18 on her remaining run, stories The Associated Press. Kokana Hiraki of Japan and Sky Brown of Nice Britain gained silver and bronze, respectively. Hiraki, 16, turned Japan’s youngest medal winner in the course of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when she gained bronze in the identical occasion at 13.

“It feels superb having the gold medal round my neck,” Trew informed reporters. “It has been my objective since watching the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. That impressed me and made me need to come to this Olympics and get to the rostrum, which is, like, superb.”

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Trew was born in Cairns, Queensland, and attends LVLUP, an academy on Australia’s Gold Coast the place college students can research and apply skateboarding. She gained two gold medals on the 2023 X Video games and two golds on the 2024 X Video games. 

This was Trew’s first journey to the Olympics and her mother and father Simon and Aiko Trew watched and cheered her on from the stands at La Concorde. They struggled to seek out the phrases to explain their emotions after Trew’s win.

“We will not consider it. It is loopy, loopy, completely loopy,” Simon informed Nine News. “Yeah, it is simply do not know what to say. It is simply anyone who loves skateboarding and having enjoyable.”

Skateboard legend Tony Hawk congratulated Trew, Hiraki, Brown and the opposite skateboarding Olympians on Tuesday.

“Congratulations to @arisa_trew on her epic final run in ladies’s park finals this afternoon, touchdown her to a well-deserved gold medal,” Hawk wrote on Instagram. “Due to all the opponents for pushing skateboarding into a brand new period of equality and inclusivity. And congrats to 🥈@cocona.hiraki & 🥉@skybrown.”

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