2022.02.09 21:45
Kim already won gold at 17 in Pyeongchang.
February 9, 2022, 6:48 PM
American snowboarding queen Chloe Kim was crowned with gold for the second straight Olympics.
The 21-year-old took first place in women's halfpipe, followed by Spain's Queralt Castellet, who claimed silver, and Japan's Sena Tomita, who took home the bronze.
It took just one run for Kim to post a 94.00, the eventual winning score, despite a best-of-three runs format. Kim took a victory lap in her third run as the final competitor. She attempted to land the first 1260 for a woman in competition in her second and third runs, but couldn't nail it.
Kim's winning run included two 1080s as well as a switch 900. In the end, it was far above her second-closest competitor.
Among those rooting on Kim from the bottom of the halfpipe was Eileen Gu, the San Francisco-born freestyle skier competing for China, who won gold in the women's big air event earlier this week. Gu is a favorite in the women's ski halfpipe as well.
Kim was the only American in the final, as the other three competitors couldn't make it through qualifying. Maddie Mastro was expected to compete for the podium with a double-cork maneuver even Kim did not have, but she couldn't land a clean run in qualifications a night earlier.
Kim won gold despite taking off the better part of two years in 2019 and 2020, as she enrolled at Princeton University. She took a break from school over the past year to focus on training and qualifying for the Beijing Olympics.
She spent most of her time training ahead of the Olympics, as opposed to competing, but she won the only event she entered this world cup season in Laax, Switzerland, last month. She also won in her only Dew Tour event this season, taking first over Castellet at Copper Mountain in mid-December.
Kim won gold in Pyeongchang at just 17 in dominating fashion. She scored a 98.25 in her final run -- the only athlete higher than 90.
The win at the 2018 Olympics, and her effervescent personality, catapulted her to international fame. She appeared in a Nike advertising campaign alongside Serena Williams and Megan Rapinoe, had a Barbie doll released in her image and appeared in the Maroon 5 music video for "Girls Like You" and on the MTV show "Ridiculousness."
The Southern California native has long ruled the world snowboarding scene despite her youth. She first competed at the 2014 X Games at just 14 years old, finishing in second place. Kim would've been a lock to compete for the U.S. in Sochi in 2014, but the sport's governing body requires athletes be at least 15 to qualify for the Olympics.
Despite the disappointment of not being able to compete at the 2014 Games, she continued to perform at the highest level. She won a halfpipe competition on the world cup tour just weeks after the Sochi Olympics and won two golds at the Youth Winter Olympic Games in 2016. She came back to the X Games and won gold in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2021. She sat out the X Games in 2020 and 2022.
Kim also won the world championships in 2021 and has finished first in both qualifying and the finals in every competition she's entered on the world cup tour since February 2018.
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올림픽 2연패를 노리는 '보드 천재' 클로이 김(미국·22)이 "쓰레기통에 버렸던 메달은 물론 다시 꺼내 보관하고 있다"고 말했다.
클로이 김은 6일 베이징 겨울올림픽 정보 제공 사이트인 '마이 인포'에 실린 인터뷰에서 쓰레기통에 버린 메달에 대한 질문에 "걱정하지 말라"며 "다시 쓰레기통에서 꺼내왔다"고 답했다.
2022.02.10 08:48
"대회 나갈땐 꼭 미역국 먹는다" 클로이 김 올림픽 2연패
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클로이 킴(21)은 비록 미국 국적을 가졌지만 한국피가 흐르는 '태극 낭자'임은
틀림없다. 사실 첫번 시도에서 94점이란 높은 점수로 타의 추종이 어려운 사정
이었는데 거기에 안주하지 않고 2,3차 시도에서 더 고난도 회전을 시도하는 그녀의
불굴의 도전정신이 돋보여 더욱 자랑스럽다. 경기전 어머니가 끌여주는 '미역국'을
즐거이 먹는다고 했는데 이번에는 코로나 때문에 할수없어 경기에서 미역국을 먹지
않아 다행이었다,ㅎ,ㅎ.
Let's congratulate Chloe Kim, a second-generation Korean American,
for winning the Gold medal in the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
For Koreans, snow sports had developed very late in the history of the sport
but, these days, we have come to the top level in the world.
Even though she won it for the American team, we shall be proud of her and her family.