- Chloe Kim won a gold medal in the women's halfpipe final at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday.
- Kim was the heavy gold-medal favorite and has been one of the most dominant snowboarders in the world for years, despite only being 17.
- Olympic snowboarder Kelly Clark said she remembers Kim as a little girl asking to ride the chairlift with her at snowboard club and then wowing with her work ethic.
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Olympic snowboarder Kelly Clark told great anecdote about how impressive Chloe Kim was at a young age
Chloe Kim was impressing her peers from a young age with her skill and work ethic.
On Tuesday in Pyeongchang, Chloe Kim had the big Winter Olympics moment everyone was waiting for.
Kim dominated the women's halfpipe final en route to a gold medal. She technically won after her first-run score, but went on a third run anyway, with the gold already sealed, and landed back-to-back 1080s.
Kim entered the games as the heavy gold-medal favorite after years of dominating at lower levels. She was good enough to qualify for the Sochi Olympics in 2014, but was too young to go.
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Even before that, she had impressed some of the best snowboarders in the world with her skill and work ethic. In a profile of Kim from ESPN's Alyssa Roenigk, Olympic snowboarder Kelly Clark told a great anecdote about how impressive Kim was at a young age.
Kim spent two years living in Switzerland, returning to the U.S. when she was about 10 years old. She joined the Mammoth Mountain snowboard team where she encountered Clark, a 2002 gold-medal winner who is 17 years Kim's elder.
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