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WΔnaka snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott is about to compete in her third Olympics at the age of just 24.
Sadowski-Synnott is a member of the 17-strong New Zealand team set to compete at the Winter Olympics in Italy, which starts on Friday.
She competed in her first Big Air World Cup in 2016 at the age of 15 and made her mark in 2017 with a World Championship silver medal in slopestyle.
A year later, she competed at the Pyeongchang Olympics, claiming a bronze medal in the big air.
In Beijing 2022, she made history as the first Kiwi to ever win a Winter Olympic gold medal when she won the snowboard slopestyle title.
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