US snowboarding star Chloe Kim dislocates shoulder
Two-time defending Olympic snowboarding gold medalist Chloe Kim dislocated her shoulder in the “silliest fall” while training in Switzerland, potentially putting her participation in next month’s Winter Olympics in Italy in question.
The American snowboarder revealed her injury — but did not specify which shoulder — in an Instagram post on Thursday and said she would undergo an MRI on Friday.
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“I’m currently in Switzerland, and on my second day of training, I took the silliest fall. And that ultimately resulted in me dislocating my shoulder. Just so fun,” Kim said in the post, which included a video of the fall.
The video showed Kim, 25, going up one side of the halfpipe, with her board appearing to get caught by a patch of snow before she went awkwardly into the ground.
Kim said that she did not have “much clarity” on the injury and that imaging would provide much-needed information about the extent.
“The positive thing is, I have range, I’m not in that much pain, I just don’t want it to keep popping out, which has happened,” Kim said. “I’m just trying to stay really optimistic. I feel really good about where my snowboarding is at right now, so I know the minute I get cleared and I’m good to go, I should be fine.”
Kim has taken home Olympic gold in the halfpipe twice, winning her first in 2018 in South Korea and capturing her second four years ago in China.
She is also an eight-time X Games SuperPipe gold medal winner.
Kim is the favorite to take home the gold in the women’s snowboard halfpipe competition during this year’s Olympic competition.
The American Snowboard champ previously dealt with an injury that forced her to pull out of the U.S. Grand Prix in Copper Mountain, Colo., last month.
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