Chloe Kim

Just Women's Sports

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4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Snowboarding’s present and future queen Chloe Kim joins Kelley to talk about the true story behind her introduction to the sport, what it meant to go pro at age 12, the fearlessness required to learn a new trick, how she handled being the favorite at the 2018 games, competing in front of her family in Korea, her infamous tweet during the halfpipe final, the demands of celebrity, her transition to life as a Princeton student, and much more. Go deeper.

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0:00.0	We had to sell houses, like get rid of houses move multiple times because like what I was doing was just so expensive but he wanted me to do what I loved and like saw that I was passionate about something which was really important to him and he was full
0:16.2	on like willing to support something that I loved.
0:18.9	Welcome to the Just Women's Sports Podcast where we talk to the biggest athletes in the world
0:26.4	about the untold stories behind their success. I'm Kelly O'Hara and my guest today
0:31.3	is Chloe Kim. Chloe is a five-time X Games champion
0:35.0	an Olympic gold medalist in the half pipe.
0:37.0	She's the youngest woman to ever win
0:39.0	snowboarding gold at the Olympics
0:41.0	as well as the first ever to land back-to-back 10 Ebies in the competition.
0:45.0	In 2018, after her breakout performance in the Olympics, Chloe won a trio of SBs for best female
0:50.9	athlete, best female Olympian, and best female action sports athlete.
0:55.0	Chloe, welcome to the show.
0:57.0	Thank you.
0:58.0	Where are we finding you today?
1:00.0	I am currently home in Marina Delbray, California.
1:04.0	So you're in Southern California,
1:05.8	and that's where you grew up in Torrance,
1:08.9	but you are an Olympic gold medalist in snowboarding.
1:12.6	So explain how you got into that
1:16.4	because there are no mountains near Torrance, California
1:20.7	except for a couple hours away. So give us a rundown on how you got
1:25.0	into snowboarding yeah so I started when I was four and I actually started skiing
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