Ask Fay De Fazio Ebert and the Canadian teenager will tell you she went to Chile, took part in the Pan American Games opening ceremony on Friday and won a gold medal in the skateboarding park competition on Sunday.
Competing with a good-luck feather in her helmet from Richard, one of her two pet ducks, Ebert gave her father the perfect present on his birthday, posting a winning score of 84.66 points to grab gold ahead of Brazil's Raicca Ventura on 82.54 and American Bryce Wettstein . "This has been a very, very good experience for me," said Ebert, who told her mother when she was in grade one that she wanted to run in the Olympics."This experience was like, oh the Olympics is going to be similar to this, so cool it makes me very excited."
Back in Toronto she will no longer be just another skater at the Beaches skateboard park but a Pan Am Games gold medallist but, says her mother Elisabeth, that will not be a problem for her down-to-earth daughter.