Watch Chloe Kim capture snowboarding halfpipe gold medal with sick run

Chloe Kim (USA) in the Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe at the Winter Olympics. (Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports)
Chloe Kim (USA) in the Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe at the Winter Olympics. (Jack Gruber-USA TODAY Sports) /
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Chloe Kim brought home an Olympic gold medal with an outstanding first run on the halfpipe, hitting all her tricks in perfect fashion.

There’s no stopping Chloe Kim on the halfpipe.

The snowboarding phenom who became the youngest gold medalist in Olympics halfpipe history back in 2018 turned up in Beijing with an eye on defending her title.

All it took was one run in the women’s halfpipe final to give her 2018 gold medal some company.

Chloe Kim won Olympic gold with a sick halfpipe run

With a 94.00 on her first run, no one came close to unseating her score. Her reaction at the end of the run makes it clear she knew she’d won gold there and then.

Spain’s Queralt Castellet took silver and China’s Cai Xuetong took bronze.

Kim is now the first-ever Olympian to repeat as a gold medalist in the women’s halfpipe. Since she’s only 21 years old, who is to say she couldn’t add more hardware to her Olympic trophy cabinet.

She’s already won at just about everything she’s tried. She has won six X Games gold medals including one in 2021 in Aspen. She also has two World Championships gold medals and two golds from the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics.

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