"I've had so many people supporting me, my family has done so much and my coaches along along the way. "And yeah, just being surrounded by good people and the girls really have been pushing me, so I guess it takes that as well." "I guess it's the 10,000-hour rule, and I've been snowboarding since I was eight years old and I snowboard almost every month of the year. "But I've done that trick so many times that I was able to adjust, and yeah, done a lot of gym sessions and was able to land. This is the gold slipping away'," she said. "Nah, when I when I took off on that jump, I was like, 'I have cooked this. New Zealand's snowboard sensation looked crash-bound when she went huge on a 1080 double cork on her last jump but somehow managed to land it, an unreal moment in Olympic snowboard history. "Learning off the Olympic pressure from PyeongChang and having a disappointing result in slopestyle, I've just learnt from that experience and I know I've trained for this for the last four years, and I just had to let it happen, I guess." Zoi Sadowski-Synnott's Beijing 2022 Olympic gold-medal run "Coming into this Olympics, I knew that everyone was going to do their absolute best runs and their best tricks," she says. This time round she came into Beijing a two-time world champ and won both slopestyle and big air at the Winter X Games right before the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. She'd been hyped up as New Zealand's great hope so a 13th place finish in slopestyle was a disappointment, but even at 16 she still had the mental strength and personality to bounce back and win bronze in big air. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott: From PyeongChang deflation to Beijing elationįour years ago she was just 16 at her first Olympics in Korea and things didn't go to plan in the slopestyle. "But probably you can do that in New Zealand come wintertime, so." "Probably the ultimate way of celebrating would be going to Alaska with my whole family and doing some heli skiing. She was like - super hard to talk to her, and I think she definitely gets way more nervous than I do before a competition."Īnd how would she like to celebrate with them? "But yeah, apparently my mom was freaking out like even all the practice days. "Yeah, I kind of I kind of go radio silent before the competition just got full focus mode and just get a small text from my parents. She reveals that Mum gets more nervous before the race than she does. So yeah, I can't wait to bring home the medal and show them." "We're a pretty close family, been through a lot together. And yeah, I just so stoked that they've got to celebrate for me over in New Zealand. My siblings have sacrificed a lot to get me to where I am today. "I'm one of five and we're all pretty excited. One of five children, she talked about how her family has been amazing:
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