“I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we'd go to snowboard, and he'd take me to the mountains; we'd take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it, I wake up at 4, take a train to the mountains, sleep in the train and then go snowboard, and then come back. It was quite a mission.”

American professional snowboarder, 2-time Olympic gold medalist

Chloe Kim is an American professional snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. Born in 2000, she became known as a teenager for her success in snowboard halfpipe competition. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she won gold in the women’s halfpipe at 17, becoming the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal. Her public profile has been shaped by that achievement and by her place in elite snowboard competition.