Zoi Sadowski-Synnott snagged the first-ever Winter Olympics gold for New Zealand.

Zoi Sadowski - Synnott , 20,just made chronicle in the women’ssnowboard slopestyle upshot at Genting Snow Park in Beijing earlier this week , arrest gold with a 92.88 streak in the final . But it was n’t just another palm for the New Zealander .   Sadowski - Synnott ’s first - piazza finish nock the country ’s debut Winter Olympics gold , Insider cover .

Naturally , such a feat is bound to cause a piddling overexcitement . Translation : Cussing . While chatting with a New Zealand - based news station about his daughter ’s big win ,   Sadowski - Synnott ’s father get a few f - dud fly .

" She was fcking crazy , " he told the sales outlet . " I ’m pretty fcking aroused , to be honorable . "

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It was in Sadowski - Synnott ’s third and final run that landed her in the phonograph record - breaking first station position , simultaneously end New Zealand ’s 40 - class wait for the Winter Olympics amber .

" I knew before I dropped in that if I landed the run that I countersink out to do , I would succeed amber , " Sadowski - Synnott said , according totheNew York Times .

The Olympian quickly caught wind of her father ’s celebratory audience and laugh it off .

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" Yeah , I conceive really that he had a few too many drinks at that stage , but you ca n’t really blame him,“she differentiate Reuters . " It was Waitangi Day in New Zealand ( a national holiday ) , and his daughter just deliver the goods the Olympics , so .. ! "

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