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"Feeding off each other's energies": Sadowski-Synnott unpacks NZ's Winter Olympic success so far

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 11 Feb 2026, 8:49am
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand waits for the results after her third run in the Women’s Snowboard Big Air Finals at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games in Italy on Monday 9 February 2026. Photo / Photosport
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott of New Zealand waits for the results after her third run in the Women’s Snowboard Big Air Finals at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympic Games in Italy on Monday 9 February 2026. Photo / Photosport

"Feeding off each other's energies": Sadowski-Synnott unpacks NZ's Winter Olympic success so far

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 11 Feb 2026, 8:49am

New Zealand's Winter Olympics team is halfway towards a goal of returning the country's biggest medal haul at a Games. 

Luca Harrington has leaped from 11th to claim bronze with his final run in the freeski slopestyle at the Milan-Cortina. 

The 21-year-old joins Zoi Sadowski-Synnott who bagged silver in the snowboard big air and has her preferred slopestyle event to come. 

Alpine skier Alice Robinson and freeski halfpipe world champion Fin Melville Ives are also yet to compete. 

Sadowski-Synnott told Mike Hosking it’s definitely the best Winter Olympics team they’ve had yet, and she’s so inspired by all her teammates. 

She says they’re feeding off each other’s energies, and she gets inspired watching everyone else reach and achieve their goals.  

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