![]() Kim, the only woman to land back-to-back 1080s in a contest, is taking this season off after repeating as Olympic champion but plans to return ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Games. “The future of snowboarding’s in good hands.” Kim, the daughter of South Korean immigrants, posted that she has known Choi for almost a decade. “I’m already starting to look forward to the next Olympics.” “I began snowboarding because of Chloe Kim and now almost being near her level when she was 14, it feels weird that I can see a possibility that I would go beyond her some day,” Choi said through a translator, according to organizers. She is six months younger than Kim was when Kim won the first of her five X Games Aspen halfpipe titles in 2015. ![]() In a format introduced three years ago, athletes were ranked on overall impression of their best run over the course of a jam session rather than scoring individual runs.Ĭhoi became the first Winter X Games medalist for South Korea, a nation with a best Olympic halfpipe finish of 14th. ![]() ![]() She then landed a frontside 1080 in her fourth run. South Korean Gaon Choi broke Chloe Kim‘s record as the youngest X Games snowboard halfpipe champion, winning at age 14 on Saturday in Aspen, Colorado.Ĭhoi, the world junior champion, landed three different 900s in her third of four runs to overtake two-time U.S. ![]()
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