“I was, like, talking to these kids, and I look up, and there was, like, 25 cameras around me. And I ran. I ran away. I, like, straight up ran away, and I was so scared, and then, like, it happened, and after I was done, it kinda sunk in.”

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.