Meet the Golden Girls of the Winter Games of the United States! Chloe Kim, a 21-year-old snowboarder who made history at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, won the women's U-Shaped Track Skills gold medal in snowboarding for the second consecutive time – becoming the first ever female snowboarder to win a gold medal twice in the event. Now she's a happy woman with two Olympic gold medals, lucrative brand deals and a burly skateboarder boyfriend.
According to U.S. media reports on February 11, 21-year-old Chloe King is from Torrance, California, whose parents are Korean immigrants, and she and her two sisters grew up in California. For the sports star, her achievements on the slopes lie in the fact that she started snowboarding at an early age, thanks to her dedicated father, who shared his love of winter sports with his daughter from an early age. She has been snowboarding since she was four years old because her father "dragged" her up the mountain just so that her mom could play with her. In a 2018 interview with USA Today, she said, "He actually dragged me up the mountain when I was four years old and bribed my mom to ski with him, so it really wasn't my willingness." "But I'm really glad he did." I'm really glad he kept taking me up the hill. "I'm very grateful to him. I think he's really smart with parenting, a bit overprotective but respectful. ”
After she fell in love with the sport, her father quit his job as an engineer in order to drive her to the mountains to travel with her while she was racing. In another interview with Vogue, Chloe explained that her father would sometimes drive all night, recalling: "My dad would put me under a pile of blankets in the middle of the night so I could sleep all the way and be on the hill when it was turned on. ”
From the ages of eight to ten, she and her aunt lived in Geneva, Switzerland, where they trained on the slopes before returning to California to train in Mammoth Mountain.
She told The New York Times, "When I was 13, I was making my mark and doing really well in the races, and then it felt like everybody was on my side and it was like, 'Go, Chloe!' Well done, Chloe, watch you go! ‘”
But as she continued to achieve great success, she "received a lot of hate messages" from the Internet. "Then after I won, my opinion on me changed completely, and I sometimes even felt embarrassed to win the game," she said. I know that if I perform well again, some racists will hate me even more. ”
However, these negative energies did not affect her future, and she continued to soar. She joined the U.S. snowboard team in 2013 and a year later competed in the Winter Extreme Games, where she won a silver medal. A year later, she went on to win gold at Winter x Games, becoming the youngest gold medalist at the time. Then she won the gold medal again in 2016. That same year, she scored a perfect 100 points at the U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix — the only one besides Sean White. She also won the gold medal at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, the highest score in snowboarding in Youth Olympic history.
Kung Fu pays off, and in 2018, at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, she became the youngest woman to win a gold medal in women's U-shaped field skills. After she won the gold medal at the 2018 Olympics, her father was incredibly proud. He gushed to CNN, "I'm under a lot of pressure because everybody says Chloe's going to win the gold medal, but nobody knows the outcome — I can't control it. Now I'm happy that all the stress is gone. "I'm the father of an Olympic gold medalist, and not many people feel that way." In July 2018, Kim won ESPY's Best Female Athlete, Best Female Olympian and Best Female Extreme Athlete awards.
Despite training hard, Chloe has always insisted that she took the sport just to "have fun." She told People magazine in 2021, "It's purely about having fun and pushing my own limits." I'm happy pushing myself. I like that. "I think that's why a lot of people in the extreme sports industry do this." That's because the adrenaline rush accompanies you doing things you've never done to your body before. It's really exciting. ”
In fact, she is also a very girly person in her daily life, and Chloe, who calls herself a "girl", enjoys shopping, surfing, swimming and playing with her Australian Shepherd Reese, as well as spending time with her boyfriend Evan Berle--- who is a skateboarder himself.
Sure, she's had other boyfriends before, such as when she was with snowboarder Toby Miller, but it's unclear exactly when they broke up or what went wrong.
Sooner or later, though, as an athlete, she will retire, and when she finally stops snowboarding, Chloe plans to become a veterinarian and hopes to one day buy a ranch that can raise pigs, chickens and possibly some "exotic animals, such as parrots." She told NBC in 2016, "Snowboarding is a big part of my life, but I also feel it's important to have a B plan or backup plan for my career because I can't be racing all my life." ”
In fact, she has now gained a lot from becoming a ski star. She has appeared on the covers of many magazines, including Sports Illustrated and Time, and has received numerous sponsorships from big brands like Kelloggs, Nike, Grubhub, Toyota, Roxy, Breitling and more. She also recently modeled for Kim Kardashian's bodywear collection Skims and co-founded a media and commercial company called TOGETHXR.