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" Kaitlyn Farrington: Snowboarder, gold medalist, dancer, cat lover, and Zac Efron&amp;#039;s number one fan. Fresh off her Sochi Halfpipe win, the 24-year-old Idaho native is back in the States buzzing around New York from talk show to talk show with her gold medal in her pocket and her head on cloud nine. In the midst of all the mayhem, she found a quick moment to chat with me about the important things: boys, Twitter, and her a**hole cat.  Congrats! How did you celebrate after you won?  I went dancing\u2014I danced my face off. There was this night club called Sky, it was one of the more popular bars in the Sochi mountain village, and everyone [all the Olympians] would go after the after events.   Jamie Anderson said Tinder was &amp;quot;on the next level&amp;quot; in the Olympic Village. Are you on Tinder? No, I&amp;#039;m not on Tinder. Probably, for the best. I also didn&amp;#039;t stay in the Olympic Village, but I&amp;#039;m sure some canoodling was going on. We did see everyone around town and on the hill though\u2014everyone was hanging out.  Related: Olympic Snowboarding Champion Jamie Anderson Believes in the Power of Crystals  Was there anyone you were especially excited to hangout with? The boys hockey team! After our medal ceremony the USA house had a little party and the boys hockey team was there. They had played that night and won.   Speaking of boys. What&amp;#039;s going on with you and Zac Efron on Twitter? He&amp;#039;s my huge celebrity crush, and I&amp;#039;ve been putting in groundwork on Twitter. I tweeted at him right before my medal ceremony and he retweeted. Then right when I was getting ready to do the taping of the Letterman Show, I picked up my phone and I had an alert that said Zac Efron just followed and tweeted at you. I was like &amp;#039;Oh My God.&amp;#039; It made me pretty happy.    So you told him you&amp;#039;d be in Los Angeles next week. Amazing. Good luck! So has your Twitter exploded since you won? Oh yeah, I used to have like 2,000 followers and now I have\u2026I don&amp;#039;t even know. [Ed note: she&amp;#039;s at 17.3 K]. Everything has completely changed, and it&amp;#039;s awesome. It&amp;#039;s fun to experience something like this. I&amp;#039;ve worked so hard to get to this point, so it&amp;#039;s cool to see it all pay off. My life has changed forever.  Are you going to reward yourself with something after you go home?  I live in Salt Lake City, but I&amp;#039;m trying to move to the beach for the summer. I&amp;#039;m thinking Hawaii, but I have a cat, so I have to make sure I can take him over. His name is Zilla, after Godzilla. He&amp;#039;s an asshole. He&amp;#039;s really cute, but he has his moments.   Let&amp;#039;s talk a little fashion and beauty. What&amp;#039;s your must-have beauty product to deal with all that cold air? I use Clinique Moisture Surge because my skin gets really dry being in all the harsh elements. It&amp;#039;s something that I came across in duty free and I&amp;#039;ve used it ever since.   What&amp;#039;s your go-to piece of clothing?I&amp;#039;m kind a skinny jeans person. I have a collection of Joe&amp;#039;s Jeans.   Is your medal with you right now? Yeah, it is. I think I&amp;#039;m going to keep it in my pocket for the next month or two. Everybody wants to see it everywhere I go, and it&amp;#039;s fun to have. It&amp;#039;s part of me now.   So has it all sunk in? I&amp;#039;ve embraced it now, but the first couple of days I just didn&amp;#039;t know what was going on. But being in New York and doing all the media and TV shows has made it sink in even more. And having Zac Efron tweet at me. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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