Photo: Getty ImagesThere are two teenagers in Wanaka called Nico Porteous and that's the way the Winter Olympic medallist likes it. New Zealand left them with Annelise Coberger no longer the country's solitary Winter Games medal winner. Chalk one up for a talented group of young winter athletes, of whom Porteous and Sadowski-Synnott were the flagbearers. For Porteous, still 16 and the youngest Olympic medallist New Zealand has produced, life was a whirl when he returned home. He remembers the early period after getting home to Wanaka as a full-on period of commitments and obligations.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 11, 2018 17:03 UTC