{"id":125742,"date":"2026-01-08T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125742\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:31:09","slug":"chloe-kim-injures-shoulder-trying-to-stay-optimistic-for-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125742\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe Kim injures shoulder, \u2018trying to stay optimistic\u2019 for Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAAX, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim said Thursday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTQnGe4Cbi0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=e2af68b1-744e-4091-926b-6f8b00e8f92c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she dislocated her shoulder<\/a> in training and doesn\u2019t know whether she wil be able to compete at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Games<\/a> in Italy next month.<\/p>\n<p>Kim posted footage of her fall from earlier this week on the halfpipe in Laax, where the world\u2019s top snowboarders compete later this month in a key pre-Olympic tune-up. She landed a jump cleanly but lost her edge and went skittering across the pipe, face down.<\/p>\n<p>She said she is \u201ctrying to stay optimistic\u201d about competing at the Olympics but \u201cI don\u2019t have much clarity now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Kim said she has an MRI scheduled for Friday that will reveal the extent of the damage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe positive thing is, I have range, I\u2019m not in that much pain, I just don\u2019t want it to keep popping out, which has happened,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to stay really optimistic. I feel really good about where my snowboarding is at right now, so I know the minute I get cleared and I\u2019m good to go, I should be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAAX, Switzerland (AP) \u2014 Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim said Thursday that she dislocated her shoulder in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[65320,74,76,75,42022],"class_list":{"0":"post-125742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-chloe-kim","9":"tag-san-diego","10":"tag-san-diego-headlines","11":"tag-san-diego-news","12":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}