Sadowski-Synnott saves best for last to take historic slopestyle gold

Despite being knocked out of gold medal position at the last possible moment, silver medal winner Marino knew that she had been part of – and witnessed – something special on Sunday, and had nothing but praise for Sadowski-Synnott and the rest of her competitors.

“Zoi stomped her last trick on the last line,” said Marino, “She’s got the strongest legs ever, because it sounds like she cracked the landing pretty much with that.

“I don’t really think of her as my rival, she’s a good friend,” Marino went on, “We were all super happy for her. She’s taking it to the next level doing these big tricks and other girls are like, ‘Wow, I think we can do that, too’. She’s so inspiring.”

The bronze medal went to Australia’s Tess Coady, as the 21-year-old charged out of the gate with the second-highest scoring run of run one, only to up the ante on run three with a frontside 180 on to switch backside 360 off on the first rail, and then a half-cab on to backside 180 off on the second, into a switch boardslide 270 out on the cannon rail to finish off the jibs.

Through the jumps she began with a switch backside 900 weddle, into a backside 720 indy, and then finally a frontside double cork 1080 mute to end it off with a score of 84.15.