Dutch skateboarder Roos Zwetsloot says her father had a hilarious response to watching her compete within the girls’s avenue occasion on the Summer time Olympics.
The 24-year-old professional has her whole household in Paris supporting her on the 2024 Video games, however Zwetsloot says that each her mom and father generally have hassle watching her competitions attributable to issues she’ll get injured.
Following the ladies’s avenue competitors at Place de la Concorde on Sunday, July 28 – the place Zwetsloot earned a 233.71 rating – she tells PEOPLE, “I feel I noticed my mother on the follow however then she walked away.”
“I did not see her within the crowd anymore,” Zwetsloot continues, explaining, “I feel she does not like me to fall.”
What’s extra, Zwetsloot shares, “My father…he mentioned he is completely satisfied he has a pacemaker.”
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The Utrecht, Netherlands native – who competed in girls’s avenue skateboarding within the 2020 Tokyo Video games, coming in fifth place – says her mother and father aren’t so involved with how nicely she performs within the Video games.
“It is probably not concerning the consequence, I am getting injured. So my mother, she’s like, ‘I am simply hoping you are okay and it does not matter what occurred,'” says Zwetsloot, including, “It is nerve-wracking.”
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Each Zwetsloot’s mom and father, in addition to her sister, sister’s boyfriend and a handful of mates from Amsterdam, are in Paris supporting her in her second Olympic Video games.
Following her first occasion, Zwetsloot tells PEOPLE she’s “feeling okay” about her efficiency on the course. “Yeah, I did some methods and I do not know if it is sufficient, however I am pleased with three scores and hopefully I can present extra within the finals if that is attainable,” says the athlete, who started skateboarding “only for enjoyable” when she was 12 years previous.
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When she hits the ramp, Zwetsloot says her favourite pump-up music is a combination between Michael Jackson and obscure Dutch artists.
“I like Michael Jackson, like ‘Beat It,’ you already know, and Dutch music. Like what you hear in a café, like dangerous music, that dangerous music you hear there,” she says with fun.
The ladies’s avenue occasion noticed the very best and brightest skate boarders from everywhere in the world in a wide range of age teams competing for the gold. Zwetsloot’s opponents on Sunday included Brazilian Rayssa Leal, 16, Chloe Cavell from Australia and Cui Chenxi of China, each 14.
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