US EditionU.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim wins silver, denied 3-peat in halfpipe
- On Thursday, Choi Ga-on stunned the field by winning Olympic women's snowboard halfpipe gold at Livigno with a score of 90.25, denying Chloe Kim a three-peat.
- Chloe Kim entered the event with a shoulder injury sustained four weeks earlier, competing on Wednesday wearing a brace and saying, `I haven't been able to practice as much as I would've liked.`
- After a first-run crash, Choi sat for several minutes as medics attended before riding off unassisted, while Kim opened with an 88 but fell on her final of three runs.
- The result makes Choi first non-American woman to win since Torah Bright in 2010, at age 17, and she became the youngest X Games winner at one.
- Among spectators, Shaun White was in the crowd when Kim, who mentored Choi, said, `It's all about passing the torch`; Kim's fall prevented her from achieving a three-peat.
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Korean snowboarder Choi Gaon clinched the gold medal in the women’s halfpipe event at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics on Thursday (local time), becoming the first South Korean Olympic gold medalist in a snow event and the youngest women’s halfpipe gold medalist at 17 years and three months old. For a sport that has long felt like a cultural wasteland in Korea, with limited infrastructure and few visible role models, a decade-long mentorship by…
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You’d be forgiven for disbelieving the smile on Chloe Kim’s face Thursday night in Livigno, Italy, after she finished with a silver medal in the women’s Olympic halfpipe snowboarding finals. Kim’s victories at the Olympics are typically inevitable. And after she finished first in qualifying earlier in the week, it seemed she had shaken the effects of the dislocated left shoulder she suffered back in early January. Winners refuse to accept second…
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South Korea's Choi upsets Kim to claim women's halfpipe gold
LIVIGNO, Italy — South Korea's Choi Ga-on denied American Chloe Kim a three-peat in the women's snowboard halfpipe at the Winter Olympics on Thursday, staging a stunning comeback from a crash to win gold on a snowy night in the Italian Alps. Kim took silver, while the bronze went to Mitsuki Ono of Japan in the mountain town of Livigno, near the Swiss border. The 17-year-old Choi, making her Olympic debut, looked like she would have to withdraw a…
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