When your 14-year-old daughter wins a gold medal from the 2024 Olympic Games, you have to do something special to commemorate the occasion. However, skateboarding champion Arisa Trew has a particularly unusual request: a pet duck! It seems that, along with competing in the Olympics, owning one of these water birds has been a long-held dream of hers. Now, it’s about to become a reality!
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Speaking to the press after her incredible victory, Arisa Trew revealed that she had asked her parents for a pet duck to celebrate.
Before winning the women’s park skateboarding event during the Paris Olympics, Trew was already making a name for herself as an athlete. At 13, she became the first woman to perform a 720 in competition at Tony Hawk’s Vert Alert in Salt Lake City. Sky News tells us that, by taking home an Olympic gold medal, she’s making history yet again by becoming the youngest Australian ever to do so.
If that doesn’t deserve a duck, we don’t know what does!
Thanks to this radio station, Arisa Trew got a preview of duck ownership.
Triple M Gold, a radio station from Trew’s home city, Gold Coast, decided to surprise the teenager with a gift of their own. While they couldn’t give the skateboarder a pet duck outright, the station’s morning hosts did bring in a bunch of these animals for a visit during the girl’s appearance on their show. You’ve never seen a bigger smile on a young woman’s face!
7NEWS Adelaide shared that Arisa Trew would be getting her pet duck from the same farm that loaned the radio station some friendly birds for the day.
According to Sky News, the young skateboarding champion is already planning activities with her future pet. She’s especially looking forward to teaching the bird to ride a skateboard!
Obviously, becoming a duck owner is going to be a lot of work. Both the teen and her parents will have to do plenty of research on how to care for these animals before bringing one into their home. However, it sounds like the girl has put a lot of thought into her decision. We’re sure that Arisa Trew will make a great duck mom!
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