![]() “For a long part of my career, it was pretty easy to win, I didn’t really have to do much and I didn’t really have anyone pushing me and now I am very much pushed by everyone.” “I need that kind of fire under my ass to keep me working hard and kind of keep me on my toes,” Anderson told reporters before the Olympics. “True camaraderie,” Anderson wrote in an Instagram post with the photo. After Anderson’s victorious run, the star snowboarders shared a hug at the base of the course. Two weeks prior, Anderson threw down a clutch second run to knock the New Zealand rider from the top spot at a World Cup event at Mammoth Mountain. ![]() The 20-year-old from New Zealand entered the Olympics with momentum from two gold medals at the X Games last month, where she edged out Anderson in both slopestyle and big air. “She’s such a dark horse, you never know what she’s going to do.”Īnderson and Sadowski-Synnott jockeyed for podium position leading up to the Games. “Jamie is absolutely amazing and continues to inspire me every step of the way,” Sadowski-Synnott said. While the 31-year-old Anderson finished ninth after falling on all three of her runs, 20-somethings dominated the podium with Sadowski-Synnott, 20, Marino and 21-year-old Australian Tess Coady taking bronze.Īlthough Anderson came to Beijing with an opportunity to become the first snowboarder to win four Olympic gold medals, she’s now accomplished another goal: inspiring the next generation to step out of her sizable shadow. Sadowski-Synnott’s victory marked a changing of the guard in slopestyle, where Anderson had won the only two gold medals since the discipline joined the Olympic program in 2014. “I’m feeling a lot of feelings right now, honestly,” Marino said minutes after walking off the second step of the podium, “but mostly a lot of happiness and a lot of excitement for everything that happened today.” ![]()
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