Chloe Kim has spent more than a decade at the top of her sport, redefining what progression in women's snowboarding looks like. With two Olympic golds and one silver, three World Championship titles, and eight X Games medals, Kim is in a league of her own in halfpipe snowboarding.
Chloe Kim burst onto the snowboarding scene at age 13, winning silver at the prestigious Aspen, Colorado, X Games just a few months before her 14th birthday. She went on to win the halfpipe event at Aspen the following year and then went on to claim another seven victories at X Games.
Kim was pictured putting her finger on the smitten Garrett's chin. Was she wiping leftover jam from breakfast off his face? Or perhaps pointing to a spot he missed shaving? Whatever the reason, cute cute cute! In another photo, she looks like she's telling Garrett a fascinating detail of her 90.25 score on the first run that may have allayed concerns about her shoulder injury. He looks rapt/concerned/in love or perhaps all three.
Chloe Kim's third run to the Olympics started with the usual questions: How will she handle the pressure? Can she enjoy the journey? How does being famous elevate or diminish the experience? And, of course, will she win her third straight gold medal? Now, comes one that nobody saw coming: Will America's best snowboarder, one of the major attractions of next month's Milan Cortina Games, even make it to the halfpipe?
I spend a lot of time in my head... I journal a lot. I break down all of my thought processes. I apply a very analytical lens to my own thinking, and I modify it. You can control what you think. You can control how you think. And therefore, you can control who you are.
They're the only reason I'm here. They've done everything for me. They've watched the kids every step of the way, and they've encouraged me and supported me. I've had so many nannies throughout the years that have allowed us to get here. It's been incredible.
The Winter X Games are much more than just a weekend of skiing, snowboarding, and snowmobiling competitions. It is an entire production that takes an army to plan, implement, and execute. From the athletes to media and TV production, to security, medical staff, and physically building/maintaining each of the courses, there is so much that goes into the making of X Games. The 25th annual Aspen Winter X Games is officially wrapped, and across 18 unique disciplines, 54 medals have been awarded.
It was just really surprising, I guess, because I felt like, How could that be?' she said in an interview with The Associated Press at the U.S. Speedskating trials ahead of the Milan Cortina Games. When you think about how many Winter Olympics we've had, I just thought it was really strange. I hope people can see my story and the stories of other Black women in winter sports and then, hopefully, we'll have more coming up soon.
Basically, I had a complex tibia fracture, also fractured my fibular head, my tibial plateau. Just kind of everything was in pieces. She said she also suffered compartment syndrome, explaining that the physical trauma caused pressure to build up in her leg, putting her muscles, nerves, and tendons at risk. Her surgeon, Hackett, had to perform a fasciotomy, and she said he saved [her] leg from being amputated.
For decades, women's figure skating has been framed by rivalry, pressure and narrow expectations - from the tabloid saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan to the devastating Olympic unraveling of Kamila Valieva. The sport often rewarded compliance as young girls were molded early, pushed hard, and expected to fit a certain aesthetic: dainty, delicate, waif-like, compliant, and quiet. Liu has broken that mold at nearly every turn.
Ester Ledecka's quest to become the first snowboarder to win gold medals in three straight Olympics came to a surprisingly early end Sunday. She lost her quarterfinal race in the sport's parallel giant slalom by 0.06 seconds to Austria's Sabine Payer. The 30-year-old Czech racer was a big favorite for gold. She hadn't lost a PGS World Cup race in almost two years and hadn't missed a podium in five.
The story of the event was the snow conditions, as well as questions about judging. Livigno received multiple inches of snow in the days leading up to the final, even forcing the qualifying round to be moved up a day to compete before the snowstorm. The new snowfall made the course run slowly for the finals, with riders struggling to go fast enough for big tricks.
So many athletes compete for a different country. People only have a problem with me doing it because they kind of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they just hate China. So it's not really about what they think it's about.
