30 Jan 2022

I'm Listening To This: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

From Sunday Morning, 10:42 am on 30 January 2022

New Zealand snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott couldn't be in a better place ahead of her second Olympic Winter Games campaign. Sadowski-Synnott claimed bronze in the snowboard big air event at Pyeong-Chang in 2018, becoming only the second Kiwi to receive a medal at the Winter Olympics, and the Wanaka-based star heads to her second Games in Beijing with a huge weight of expectation after her stellar recent form, having claimed back-to-back gold medals in the women's slopestyle and big air events at the recent X Games Aspen event. She also made history by becoming the first female snowboarder ever to land a back-to-back frontside double 1080 and backside double 1080 in competition. Sadowski-Synnott joins the show from Los Angeles en route to Beijing to discuss the Winter Games, pushing her own limits, and why she believes You're a Song (that I can't sing) by Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons is the greatest song ever written.

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand wins gold in the Snowboard Slopestyle event at the X Games Aspen, Colorado, 2022.

Photo: PHOTOSPORT

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