Indonesia's Teeny Skateboard Hope Too Cool For School
Umer Jamshaid Published August 19, 2018 | 06:36 PM
Jakarta, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Aug, 2018 ) :Indonesia's nine-year-old skateboarder Aliqqa Noverry is set to melt hearts at the Asian Games -- but give her ice cream and she could be a medal threat, says her mum.
The youngest competitor at this year's event in Jakarta, the pint-sized adrenaline junkie loves nothing better than to rip into jumps at breakneck speed, her pigtails billowing behind her.
"I like all the tricks and going so fast -- that's the fun part," Aliqqa told AFP.
"My family support me but they're also very surprised knowing that I'm the youngest athlete here," added the trailblazing teeny-bopper, who stands just 1.30 metres (4ft, 2in) tall and has only been skating for two years.
"Being the youngest makes me a little nervous but also more motivated.
But my friends think it's a bit unfair that I get to skip school." Clearly nine is the new 16 -- especially in the hipster sport of skateboarding, which is making its Asian Games debut and will appear at the Olympics for the first time at Tokyo in 2020.
Coolly fist-bumping the bigger boarders at her local skate park on the outskirts of Jakarta, Aliqqa stops shredding to observe the call to prayer from the local mosque.
"I think I would like to skate in Tokyo," nodded Aliqqa, who could potentially come up against host country Japan's skateboarding Tinkerbell, Sky Brown, at the 2020 Olympics.
"I want to get as much experience as possible from lots of different Games."
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