{"id":21281,"date":"2026-02-12T21:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21281"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:09:30","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-chloe-kim-denied-third-snowboarding-halfpipe-gold-by-choi-ga-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=21281","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: Chloe Kim denied third snowboarding halfpipe gold by Choi Ga-on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seventeen-year-old Choi Ga-on denied American great Chloe Kim snowboarding history as she brushed off an early fall to win Winter Olympic halfpipe gold.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kim had been hoping to become the first snowboarder – male or female – to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals.<\/p>\n

But as heavy snow fell in Livigno, South Korean Choi usurped Kim at the top of the standings<\/a> with 90.25 points from her final run, a score the 25-year-old could not better on her last attempt.<\/p>\n

It showed remarkable resilience from Choi, after she had earlier taken a brutal fall in which she hit the icy lip of the pipe and flipped into its centre, lying motionless for some time.<\/p>\n

But she eventually brushed herself down and stunned the onlooking crowd with her spellbinding third run, her coach bursting into tears at the realisation of what Choi had achieved.<\/p>\n

For Kim, the build-up to the Games had been far from ideal.<\/p>\n

With just one competition under her belt this season, she dislocated her shoulder and sustained a torn labrum in what she described as the “silliest fall” in training in Switzerland last month.<\/p>\n

But despite having her shoulder in a brace, she showed little sign of it affecting her as she scored 90.25 in qualification on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Watched on by Team USA ‘honorary coach’ Snoop Dogg and snowboarding legend Shaun White in Thursday’s final, eight-time X Games champion Kim had looked set for gold after her opening run scored 88.00, with few coming close.<\/p>\n

But Choi’s score – met by both cheers and gasps of shock from the onlooking crowd – piled the pressure on Kim, only for a fall to ensure she would leave an Olympics with silver for the very first time.<\/p>\n

Japan’s Mitsuki Ono took bronze with a score of 85.00.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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