Chloe Kim arrives at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics on the brink of a historic third straight women¡¯s halfpipe gold, with her decade-long snowboard dominance defined by as many twists as her gravity-defying tricks.
The latest unexpected turn came just a month before the Games, when the 25-year-old American suffered a torn labrum in one shoulder in a fall during training.
¡°I haven¡¯t gotten nearly the amount of reps that I would have liked, but that¡¯s OK,¡± Kim said in announcing one week later that she was ¡°good to go¡± for the Olympics.
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