Arisa Trew’s dad has revealed his daughter’s Olympics obsession after the skateboarder made history in Paris – and it isn’t her gold medal.
Speaking to Channel Nine reporter Brooke Boney after the Gold Coast teenager became Australia’s youngest ever Games gold medallist, a beaming Simon Trew stated the youngster is consumed with collecting Olympics pins.
‘She collects them, I think she has 63 [pins] now,’ he said.
Aged 14 years and 86 days, Trew won the women’s park in Paris to eclipse Australia’s previous youngest medallist, swimmer Sandra Morgan.
Morgan was 14 years and 184 days old when she won gold in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
‘I got told by a few people that I’m Australia’s youngest gold medallist, which is, like, pretty insane,’ Trew said.
‘And really cool, because that’s, like, who I’m representing and, like, it’s just amazing.
‘It’s just, like, super cool that I have won the gold medal because it has been like a dream. ‘I’m just, like, so excited.’
Arisa Trew’s dad has revealed his daughter’s Olympics obsession after the skateboarder made history in Paris – and it isn’t her gold medal (pictured)
Simon Trew (pictured left) stated his talented daughter loves collecting Olympics pins – and has 63 so far
Trew captured Australia’s 14th gold medal of the Paris Games with an audacious final run.
In the bronze medal position before her third and last run, coach Trevor Ward pulled her aside.
‘We’ve got some crazy things that we say to each other and I just said the crazy things that we say – skibidi sigma,’ Ward said.
According to urban dictionaries, skibidi is nonsense slang without a specific meaning.
But to Trew, it resonated.
‘It’s like a joke that I have with all my friends because, like, it’s just, like, sigma is, like, the top,’ she said. ‘A lot of kids nowadays say that a lot.’
Trew then produced a series of daring tricks highlighted by a 540 – one and a half rotations in midair – which thrilled the capacity crowd at La Concorde in central Paris.
The Cairns-born skater scored 93.18 to pip Japan’s Cocona Kiraki (92.63) and Great Britain’s Sky Brown (92.31).
Aged 14 years and 86 days, Trew won the women’s park in Paris to eclipse Australia’s previous youngest gold medallist, swimmer Sandra Morgan from the 1956 Games in Melbourne
‘When I saw the score, I was, like, what? That’s crazy,’ Trew said.
Coach Ward was overcome with emotion as the enormity of what Trew achieved began to sink in.
‘I’m crying like a little baby,’ he said. ‘Man, it’s the most amazing thing.’
Trew, the youngest athlete on Australia’s team in Paris and the nation’s seventh-youngest Olympian ever, was stunned by rapid success.
‘It was just crazy and so exciting and I just, like, couldn’t believe it when I, like, knew that I was the winner of the Olympics,’ said the nation’s youngest medallist of any colour.
‘This being my first Olympics, it’s just insane. ‘I wasn’t really nervous because it’s just, like, I just needed to think that it’s another skate comp.
‘And just to have fun with all my friends and skate my best but, like, all I really wanted to do was land a solid run.’
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