Chloe Kim will look to continue her dominance in the women’s snowboarding halfpipe Thursday as she looks to become the first U.S. snowboarder to win three straight gold medals.
It’s a feat even legendary snowboarder Shaun White fell short of.
And while her qualifying runs seemed to shred any question of her ability to come out on top despite a recent shoulder injury, it appears Kim may be holding some tricks back for her final runs.
Watch women’s snowboarding halfpipe finals
The finals for the halfpipe will take place Thursday, starting at 12:30 p.m. CT. The final runs are expected to take place around 1:30 p.m. CT.
It will air live on NBC and again in primetime starting at 9 p.m. CT.
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Kim, four weeks removed from a schedule-scrambling shoulder injury, soared through a no-fuss, no-drama qualifying round, finishing first to easily earn a spot in the final.
Two dozen riders got two turns down the Olympic halfpipe Wednesday, with only 12 advancing to Thursday night’s final. Kim dropped in the middle of the pack and immediately separated herself from everyone.
The run included a massive big air leap, some 13 feet over the edge of the halfpipe, punctuated with a showy grab of the board, and also a 1080-degree spin while riding backward — a trick she can make even harder by adding an extra flip.
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Commentators called the run “crazy” and “absolutely a flex.”
“That switch method alone… If you were to ask me what’s the best trick today it’s that,” Olympian Todd Richards said after Kim’s first run.
Kim is competing in these Olympics wearing a shoulder brace, the result of an awkward fall four weeks ago during a training run in Switzerland. She returned to the halfpipe only two weeks ago. This marked her first truly meaningful run since last March.
“She’s been very well behaved,” Kim said, looking down at her left shoulder. “So I’m grateful for that.”
Despite being in a league of her own, Kim acknowledged the runs weren’t necessarily what she wanted. She said she was hoping to link frontside and backside 900s on her second run, but she skidded a bit after the first one, so pulled up to save herself for the final, where she’ll go bigger.
Kim said her big run is one she’s never done. It will be a tougher version of what she won with in Beijing — tricks involving riding backward and forward and spinning in both directions off those approaches.
“I’ve landed all the components of my finals run, I just haven’t put them together,” she said. “So I’ll get to do it on the big day.”
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Among her biggest challengers will be teammate Maddie Mastro, Japan’s Sara Shimizu and Sena Tomita, Korea’s Gaon Choi and U.S. rider Bea Kim, all of whom made the final 12.
They are all in the running for medals — and a gold one if Kim is not at her best.
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