Riding the wave of back-to-back Olympic gold medals, Chloe Kim overcame a shoulder injury less than a month ago to compete for her third straight title in snowboard halfpipe. Her Run 1 score of 88.00 points stood as the highest for the majority of the final.
Olympic rookie Gaon Choi of South Korea was projected to be a top contender, but a brutal crash on her first run made the medal outlook bleak.
Choi persevered to return to the snow and, on Run 3, put together a clean showing for the top score of the day: 90.25 points. It all came down to Kim's final drop into the halfpipe to see if she could outscore Choi, but she took a tumble that sealed her silver medal.
With the underdog win, Choi became the youngest snowboarding champion in history at 17 years, 101 days old.
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