Meet Finland's globetrotting teen skater who's heading to the Olympics

AFP English
AFP English
  • 3 months ago
Travelling to skateboard competitions around the world, 13-year-old Heili Sirvio leads a life unlike the average Finnish teen. Her next stop is Paris where she will compete as Finland's youngest ever Olympic athlete.
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00:00I'm a little bit nervous but I'm mainly excited just because now that we're in the Olympics
00:27it was always before like oh I have to just get to the Olympics, I have to just get to
00:30the Olympics but now it's just like oh I'm already there so it doesn't really matter
00:34but hopefully we bring home a medal from the Olympics that would just really mean a lot
00:39to me.
00:40I think it's like the friends and just like everything about it is just really great like
00:44the community is just really fun and just being able to travel everywhere for skate
00:48comps is just a really really fun time.
01:11She's been competing against the best in the world for two years now so it's kind of like
01:17it's been a long journey it wasn't like it wasn't something that happened overnight and
01:23surprised us it was more like we've been working really hard and we achieved that and we're
01:27really like proud of what the whole family's done.

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