Nico Porteous has dropped the curtain on New Zealand’s greatest ever Winter Games, overcoming the elements and a field of established champions to win the Olympic freeski halfpipe title
. The 20-year-old from the South Island resort town of Wanaka soared and spun to New Zealand’s second ever gold medal at a Winter Olympics on Saturday, two weeks to the day after Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’sRemarkably, only 12 of the 91 nations competing at the Beijing Games have managed to win more golds than two Kiwi athletes from a tiny lakeside hamlet. “We both come from a town of ten thousand people, and skiing and snowboarding is our passion,” Porteous said. “We just absolutely love it.
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