‘Just horrid’ for Sadowski-Synnott

Kiwi snowboarder Zoi SadowskiSynnott was deflated after missing out on a medal in the women’s slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics.

The 16-year-old battled with the windy conditions and folded on both of her runs ending in 13th place of 26 competitors in PyeongChang yesterday.

Being her first time at the Olympics, the occasion seemed to have got the better of the Wanaka local scoring just 26.70 on her first run and 48.38 in an improved second run.

‘‘In the top section from the first rail I just didn’t feel it ... then I got to the second feature on the second rail and it was just horrid.’’ she told Sky TV.

‘‘But I tried to keep going and knuckled so bad off that first jump - kind of hurt my arm a wee bit then that run was over and I went to my second run, and screwed up the second rail again and was like ‘may as well keep going’ so I went, and screwed up the third feature with sucks because that was the one I had on lock.’’

World No 1 and ‘‘queen of slopestyle’’ American Jamie Anderson took gold as expected with her first run score of 83.00. Canada’s Laurie Blouin (76.33, second run) and Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi (75.38, second run) completed the podium.

Sadowski-Synnott will compete in the Big Air on February 19 (heats), with the final on February 23.

Alice Robinson’s giant slalom event was postponed from yesterday to Thursday due to the wind.