238: Zoe Atkin, Team GB Freestyle Skier

Team GB freestyle skier Zoe Atkin has won multiple medals at the X-Games, World Cup and World Championships and is a hot prospect for a podium at next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. This season the 21-year-old has three World Cup podiums in five competitions, including a win and two second place finishes in her last three events. She will next be in action at next month’s Freestyle World Championships in St Moritz. Intersport Ski Hire Discount Code If you are heading to the snow, then don’t forget that you can save money when you book your ski hire at intersportrent.com and use the code ‘SKIPODCAST’  You’ll get a guaranteed discount for ski hire in France, Austria and Switzerland and to make it even simpler you don’t even need to use the code, just take this link and your basket will automatically be reduced.  SHOW NOTES Listen to Iain’s interview with BBC Ski Sunday presenter Chemmy Alcott, GB Snowsport CEO Vicky Gosling and former Erna Low MD Joanna Yellowlees-Bound Zoe did her autumn training in Kitzsteinhorn, Austria (3:30) Why half-pipe? (5:30) Training with your competitors (10:00) Strategy in competition (11:30) Bringing new tricks into competition (13:00) Strength and conditioning training (15:30) Zoe won the half-pipe at the X-Games in 2023 (16:30) Listen to Iain’s interview with refer Kirsty Muir (18:00) Zoe recorded back-to-back X-Games podiums with silver in 2024 Listen to Iain’s interview with Vicky Gosling, CEO of GB Snowsport (19:00) Zoe finished 9th in the half pipe at Beijing 2022 (19:00) The challenges of testing during the Games (21:00) Zoe’s sister is Izzy Atkin, who was Britain’s first skier to win a medal at the Olympics (22:30) Travels after the Winter Olympics (24:15) Zoe was brought up in Maine and skied from the age of two (25:00) Her base in now Park City, Utah (26:00) Zoe is now studying at Stanford University (27:30) Zoe finished on the podium for six consecutive events after Beijing (29:30) The plan for winter 24/25 (33:00) SELECTED RESULTS: FIS WORLD CUP 2025 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Calgary – 2nd 2025 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Aspen – 1st 2024 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Copper Mountain - 3rd 2023 World Championships Women's Ski Superpipe - 2nd 2021 World Championships Women's Ski Superpipe - 3rd 2019 Women's Freeski Halfpipe, Copper Mountain - 1st (16 years old)  SELECTED RESULTS: X-GAMES   2024 Women's Ski Superpipe – 4th  2024 Women's Ski Superpipe - 2nd 2023 Women's Ski Superpipe - 1st 2020 Women's Ski Superpipe - 5th Feedback I enjoy all feedback about the show, I’m always interested to hear what you think, so please do contact me on social @theskipodcast or by email [email protected]  There are now 250 episodes of The Ski Podcast to catch up with and 190 of those were listened to in the last week. If you’ve enjoyed this episode, why not to go theskipodcast.com and take a look around the tags and categories – you’re bound to find something of interest.  If you like the podcast, there are three things you can do to help:    1) Follow us. Just take a look for that button and press it now  2) Give us a review or just leave a comment on Apple Podcasts or Spotify  3) Book your ski hire with Intersport Rent using the code ‘SKIPODCAST’ or take this link You can follow Iain @skipedia and the podcast @theskipodcast. You can also follow us on WhatsApp for exclusive material released ahead of the podcast.