Chloe Kim, who made history at age 17 after becoming the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboard medal in 2018, is eyeing a three-peat at the Milan Cortina Olympics — something no halfpipe snowboarder has ever done before.<\/p>\n
It’s no surprise the Torrance native is fearless and feisty given that she is the only woman to ever land back-to-back 1080-degree spins in the halfpipe, which is 22 feet high, at the Olympics. <\/p>\n
“Fun, painful and rewarding,” Kim said when asked to describe her sport. “Being on top of the mountain on a bluebird day is genuinely one of the most surreal views ever.”<\/p>\n
For the 25-year-old, a trip to Milan is part business, part indulgence.<\/p>\n
“I want to land my run. I want to land a bunch of different runs and see how that does. But I also really want to eat pasta and pizza, and I want to go shopping,” she said as the fashionista was showing off her red Givency Shark Lock boots to go with her gray blazer. <\/p>\n
Kim, a trailblazer in her sport, appeared unbothered when she spoke with NBC Los Angeles before she flew out to Milan. <\/p>\n
“I’m kind of just here for the vibes,” said the Olympian, adding that she genuinely loves being a professional snowboarder and being part of Team USA. “I’m really good at this, so hell yeah, let’s go.”<\/p>\n
Kim said she knows the next generation is watching her. Bea Kim, a newcomer in halfpipe snowboarding, has said she looked up to the two-time Olympic gold medalist.<\/p>\n
“I think being able to inspire the next generation and show them that anything is truly possible is pretty cool,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chloe Kim, who made history at age 17 after becoming the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14389,48,52,51,47,50,49,1270],"class_list":{"0":"post-172963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-torrance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172963","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=172963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}