“He had a few too many drinks” – Kiwi snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott reacts to her dad’s f-bomb-filled viral interview

“He had a few too many drinks” – Kiwi snowboarder Zoi Sadowski-Synnott reacts to her dad’s f-bomb-filled viral interview

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and her father Sean Synnott

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott scripted history at Beijing 2022 as she won New Zealand’s first gold in the women’s slopestyle event. With this, she became her country’s first athlete to finish on top of the podium at the Winter Games.

Reacting to her iconic achievement, Sadowski-Synnott’s dad went bonkers during a media interview, filled with the f-word. A reporter spoke to her father, Sean Synnott, about how proud he was, to which he replied, “I’m pretty f***king excited, to be honest.”

“She was f***king crazy,” he added while talking about his daughter’s performance at the Games.

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Here’s the viral video of Sean’s interview:

“Last 24 hours have been a whirlwind”

Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott

Sadowski-Synnott, who turns 21 next month, jokingly commented that his father’s interview was fueled by a little liquid courage. However, she mentioned that you can’t blame him much as it was the occasion of Waitangi Day in New Zealand and his daughter just clinched an Olympic gold!

“Yeah, I think really that he had a few too many drinks at that point, but you can’t really blame him, it was Waitangi Day in New Zealand (a national holiday) and his daughter just won the Olympics so..!” a laughing Sadowski-Synnott told Reuters.

“The last 24 hours have been a whirlwind, super-stoked to be standing here with gold around my neck.”

Zoi’s coach, Sean Thomson, also hilariously reacted to this incident while saying that “kiwi delight,” a popular drink being served all over Beijing, had her dad’s emotions running high.

“He’s amazing, it just was so cool to see the emotion coming out of him in that clip,” Thomson said.

“We loved it and we loved all the support from back home with friends and family. It’s just really special what Zoi has done here, and to see everyone react the way they have been doing is just something else.”

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