New Zealanders were in ecstasy on Sunday when Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won their first-ever Olympic gold medal -- none more so than her dad Sean, whose emotional and slightly profane TV interview has since gone viral.
"I'm pretty fucking excited to be honest," he said of his daughter's victory in the Olympic slopestyle competition, adding another couple of spicy anecdotes in a joyous TV appearance."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 and his daughter just won the Olympics so..!" she told Reuters, laughing.
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Arden also got in on the act, sending a slightly more formal message of congratulations to the snowboarder. "So yeah, I told her that we say hi from the whole team here in Beijing, and we hope to make them proud." "He's amazing, it just was so cool to see the emotion coming out of him in that clip," he told Reuters.
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