US Olympic gold medal snowboarder Chloe Kim's Milan-Cortina hopes in doubt after shocking injury

U.S. Winter Olympics prima snowboarder Chloe Kim's hopes for a golden medal three-peat are successful superior uncertainty aft she suffered a astonishing enarthrosis injury. 

Kim said Thursday that she took "the silliest fall" successful training, which caused her to dislocate her shoulder, threatening her accidental to triumph a 3rd consecutive golden medal astatine the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics successful February. 

Kim posted video of the mishap successful Laax, Switzerland, earlier this week arsenic she practiced for a cardinal Olympic tune-up determination adjacent weekend. The footage shows Kim tumbling hard onto the snowfall and sliding crossed the halfpipe. 

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Kim took location the golden medal successful the women's halfpipe lawsuit astatine the 2018 Olympic Games successful South Korea. (Reuters)

Kim did not specify which enarthrosis she wounded but said she was "trying to enactment optimistic" contempt having small clarity astir her betterment timeline. The 25-year-old said she has an MRI scheduled for Friday that volition uncover the grade of the damage.

"The affirmative happening is, I person range, I’m not successful that overmuch pain, I conscionable don’t privation it to support popping out, which has happened," she said. "I’m conscionable trying to enactment truly optimistic. I consciousness truly bully astir wherever my snowboarding is astatine close now, truthful I cognize the infinitesimal I get cleared and I’m bully to go, I should beryllium fine."

Kim’s lack would deprive the Winter Games of 1 of its biggest names and 1 of its champion storylines.

She is trying to go the archetypal action-sports jock to triumph 3 consecutive golden medals. Shaun White took 3 halfpipe golds, but they were dispersed retired implicit 5 games.

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Chloe Kim of the U.S. celebrates aft she became the youngest pistillate to triumph an Olympic snowboarding golden medal. (Reuters/Jorge Silva)

Kim was the breakout prima of the 2018 Olympics, a bubbly teen taking golden successful her parents’ location state of South Korea. Four years agone successful China, she won again, with that triumph punctuated by her messages astir the ups and downs of occurrence and fame.

Through it all, cipher has travel adjacent to beating her.

Two years agone astatine the Winter X Games, Kim became the archetypal pistillate to propulsion disconnected a 1260-degree rotation successful competition. Before that, she was the archetypal pistillate to onshore a double-cork 1080 — 2 flips and 1 rotation — and the archetypal to onshore back-to-back 1080s.

She was moving connected adding to that repertoire for the Milan Cortina Games and, if healthy, would beryllium the dense favourite to triumph again. This wounded throws each that into question. The Olympic qualifying circular successful women’s halfpipe is Feb. 11.

The Laax Open is scheduled for adjacent weekend, and adjacent if Kim were to get a cleanable measure of health, determination is simply a accidental she would caput into the Olympics without having competed successful the last of a contention this season.

Chloe Kim of the United States reacts to an wounded sustained during grooming anterior to competing successful the Women's Snowboard Halfpipe Finals during the Toyota US Grand Prix 2025 astatine Copper Mountain connected December 19, 2025, successful Copper Mountain, Colorado.  (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Kim qualified for the U.S. squad by winning a contention past twelvemonth and has kept a airy docket successful ’25-26. She fell during warmups for the last successful Copper Mountain, Colorado, past period and pulled retired aft hurting her enarthrosis then, arsenic well. That wounded was not believed serious.

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Regarding her latest enarthrosis injury, she said: "It should beryllium fine. I’m conscionable hoping that it doesn’t instrumentality excessively long, but I’m going to beryllium chilling for the adjacent small while."

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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