Nandu News Reporter Tao Xinlei On January 25, the U.S. Olympic Committee updated the list of U.S. Winter Olympic delegations participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the U.S. women's ski jumping team increased the number of participants in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics by 1, thus increasing the total number of athletes sent by the U.S. Winter Olympic team to the Beijing Winter Olympics to 223.
The 223-member roster of athletes is the highest in U.S. Winter Olympic history, with 18 athletes having won a Winter Olympic title, including 11 pyeongchang winners.
Two gold medalists in women's alpine skiing Mikaela Severin, snowboard legend Sean White, who is about to compete in the fifth winter olympics and reach fourth gold, Chloe King, defending champion of women's snowboard U-field skills, and john Schuster, curling gold medalist, have all experienced Olympic glory; so far the only gold medalist in men's freestyle skiing U-field skills at the Winter Olympics, David Wise (the project debuted at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Wise won consecutive titles at the Sochi Winter Olympics and the Pingchang Winter Olympics) and looks forward to reliving old dreams in Beijing.
On February 13, 2018, Chloe King won the women's U-shaped track event in snowboarding at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Xinhua News Agency
Chloe King: The talented girl will compete with the Chinese double sister for gold
Chloe King was born in the United States in April 2000 to Korean parents. She started snowboarding at the age of 4, competed at the age of 6 and was selected for the U.S. National Team in 2013. The 2014 season was the moment of her outburst, when she missed out on qualifying for the Sochi Winter Olympics due to age restrictions.
In 2016, Chloe King made three consecutive X Games podiums, completing two 1080 connections at the American Grand Prix and scoring a high score of 100 points, she is also known as the "women's version of Sean White". After becoming an Olympic champion, she was named Time Magazine's 2018 World's Most Influential Person in April 2018. That same year, Chloe King won espy's 2018 Best Female Athlete, Best Female Extreme Athlete award, and Best Female Olympian. The following year, Chloe King won the U-Shaped Track Championships at the 2019 World Freestyle Skiing & Snowboarding Championships, achieving Grand Slams at the Winter Olympics, World Championships, Winter Extreme Games and world cups (overall champions). That same year, she won the Lawrence Award for Best Extreme Athlete.
In 2019, Chloe King was injured and underwent surgery during a match, and she simply suspended the game to focus on her studies at Princeton University. After a 22-month break, Chloe King announced his strong return as a champion at the 2021 Snowboard U-Track Skills World Cup in Lex, Switzerland. In the 5 games since his comeback, Chloe King has not lost.
Chloe Kim (center), runner-up China's Liu Jiayu (right) and runner-up American Ariel Gaode at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics snowboard women's U-shaped field medal presentation ceremony. Xinhua News Agency
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the "talented girl" will be the biggest competitor of the Chinese team's "Four Dynasties Veterans" Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu. Japanese rising star Mizuki Ono is considered one of Chloe King's successors, who won the winter olympic gold medal last year.