American Olympian Chloe Kim eyes historic gold medal despite shoulder injury

American snowboarding prima Chloe Kim came into the 2026 Winter Olympics dealing with a brutal enarthrosis injury, but it hasn’t deterred her 1 bit.

Kim finished connected apical of the leaderboard successful the qualifying circular for the women’s snowboard halfpipe lawsuit and is successful wide contention for a 3rd consecutive golden medal. Should she execute the feat, Kim would go the archetypal pistillate Olympic snowboarder to assertion 3 consecutive halfpipe golden medals.

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United States' Chloe Kim practices earlier the women's snowboarding halfpipe qualifications astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.  (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

The California autochthonal scored a 90.25 connected her archetypal tally and it was bully capable to enactment successful archetypal contempt not improving her people connected her 2nd run. Her American teammate Maddie Mastro finished successful 3rd spot with a people of 86.00.

"I consciousness good. Happy to beryllium here," she told Olympics.com. "There is simply a decidedly a batch of pressure, but I bash deliberation that the Olympics are truthful peculiar due to the fact that we person truthful overmuch enactment globally."

Kim is competing successful the Milan Cortina Games with a enarthrosis brace arsenic she deals with the wounded that kept her from decently gearing up for the Olympics.

Cleveland Browns' Myles Garrett, left, and United States' Chloe Kim grin aft the women's snowboarding halfpipe qualifications astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.  (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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She lone returned to the halfpipe 2 weeks ago, marking her archetypal genuinely meaningful tally since past March.

"She's been precise good behaved," she said of her near shoulder. "So I'm grateful for that."

Kim said that the wounded changed her position connected making past astatine this year’s Olympics.

"If you'd asked maine earlier the enarthrosis injury, I'd possibly person a antithetic reply for you," she said. "But conscionable due to the fact that I'm coming backmost from an injury, evidently I didn't get astir the magnitude of reps I would usually get going into an Olympics, I'm conscionable truly arrogant of myself and arrogant that I've been capable to propulsion it arsenic acold arsenic I have."

United States' Chloe Kim reacts to her people during the women's snowboarding halfpipe qualifications astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.  (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

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The last is acceptable for Thursday. Kim, Mastro and Bea Kim are each successful contention for a medal.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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