Arisa Trew’s father has revealed his daughter is obsessed with the Olympics, after the skateboarder made history in Paris – and it wasn’t about her gold medal.
Speaking to Channel Nine reporter Brooke Boney after the Gold Coast teenager became Australia’s youngest ever gold medallist, a beaming Simon Trew said the young man is crazy about collecting Olympic pins.
‘She collects them, I think she has 63 [pins] “Now,” he said.
At 14 years and 86 days old, Trew won the women’s park tournament in Paris, surpassing the youngest Australian medal winner, 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 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
“A few people have told me I’m the youngest Australian gold medalist, which is absolutely incredible,” Trew said.
‘And that’s really cool because that’s the organization that I represent and that’s just awesome.
“It’s just super cool that I won the gold medal because it was like a dream.” “I’m just so excited.”
Arisa Trew’s father has revealed his daughter’s obsession with the Olympics after the skateboarder made history in Paris – and it’s not her gold medal (pictured)
Simon Trew (pictured left) said his talented daughter loves collecting Olympic badges – and has collected 63 so far
Trew captured Australia’s 14th gold medal at the Paris Olympics with a daring final run.
While still holding bronze, she was pulled aside by coach Trevor Ward for her third and final run.
“We say some crazy things to each other and I just said the crazy things we say — skibidi sigma,” Ward said.
According to urban dictionaries, skibidi is nonsense slang with no specific meaning.
But Trew liked it.
“It’s kind of a joke I make with all my friends, because it’s just that sigma is the top,” she said. “A lot of kids say that a lot these days.”
Trew then performed a series of daring tricks, culminating in a 540 – one and a half rotations in the air – that thrilled the packed house at La Concorde in central Paris.
The Cairns-born skater scored 93.18, beating Japan’s Cocona Kiraki (92.63) and Britain’s Sky Brown (92.31).
At 14 years and 86 days old, Trew won the women’s course in Paris, beating Australia’s youngest gold medallist, swimmer Sandra Morgan from the 1956 Melbourne Games
“When I saw the score I thought, what? That’s crazy,” Trew said.
Coach Ward was overcome with emotion as it dawned on him what Trew had accomplished.
“I’m crying like a little kid,” he said. “Man, it’s really amazing.”
Trew, the youngest athlete on the Australian team in Paris and the seventh-youngest competitor ever at the Olympic Games, was astonished by the rapid success.
“It was just crazy and so exciting and I just couldn’t believe it when I heard I won the Olympics,” said the country’s youngest medalist of any color.
“This is my first Olympics, it’s just crazy. “I wasn’t really nervous because it was just, I just had to think it was another skating competition.
‘I just wanted to have fun with all my friends and skate as well as I could, but most of all I wanted to make a good run.’