After falling on her final run, United States snowboarding star Chloe Kim was stunned by South Korea's 17-year-old Gaon Choi, who scored over 90 to win gold.
Choi Ga-on, Sehwa Girls' High School, has achieved the historic feat of winning South Korea's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal in skiing. Amid this accomplishment, broadcast footage of her past appearance with her family is being revisited.
Korea's Gaon Choi, 17, rebounded from a hard fall to win gold — and end her role model's historic bid for three in a row in the Winter Olympic halfpipe.
Kim finished the day with the silver medal.
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Some might say the seeds of an Olympic-sized surprise in snowboarding were planted a month ago. That’s when Chloe Kim went skittering down a halfpipe in Switzerland, smashing her shoulder and turning her run for a third straight gold medal into a less-than-perfect scramble.
It was a busy Day 6 of the Winter Olympic Games in Milan Cortina as Chloe Kim and Breezy Johnson went for gold and the fallout of the Ukrainian slider disqualification continued.
Chinese snowboarder Liu Jiayu had a scary crash on Wednesday during the Olympics and was rushed to the hospital.
From the U.S. women’s curling team opening Day 1 of competition with a win, to Charlie Mickel and Landon Wendler advancing in men’s moguls, check out highlights from Day 6 of the Winter Olympics.
Choi Ga-on, 18 years old, from Sehwa Girls’ High School, who made her name on the international stage early, won South Korea’s first-ever gold medal in Olympic skiing and snowboarding at her first Olympics.