
Before she flew to Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics, freestyle skier Zoe Atkin had a pressing matter of interior design to attend to. Her many half-pipe medals hang on a shelf in a corner of her room in Park City, Utah. And she thought she might need space for one more.
“I left this little spot in my trophy shelf before I left, just in case, to manifest,” she tells The Independent a week after adding one of the biggest prizes of all to her collection. “And here she is!”