Chloe Kim has suffered mentally ( see later interview ) and physically, a serious shoulder injury only a month ago.  However, she yesterday qualified for the snowboarding halfpipe event.  She thus will today  compete for the gold medal.  But I'll let you watch that event in peace. Was born 26 years ago in Torrance, California.   Her parents emigrated  to the U.S. from South Korea in 1982. Her father started working at minimum-wage jobs to save money for college. He went on to study engineering at El Camino College in Torrance, working nights as a machinery operator. Jon Jin and Boran Yun had two earlier daughters, with Chloe born in 2000.  Father likes to say that she was born in the year of the dragon (I was born in 1940, also a dragon year), one reason for her precocity. Chloe began snowboarding at 4 at the Southern California resort of Mountain High. Her parents bought her first snowboard for $25 on eBay. Initially trained by her father studyin...

By now you know that the Opening Ceremony occurred.  What should you watch for over the  next 17 days? Will Lindsey Vonn actually alpine ski on Sunday, February 8? If she's good enough: Women's downhill : Sunday, Feb. 8 Women's team combined:   Tuesday, Feb. 10 Women's super-G : Thursday, Feb. 12 If you have any doubts, she has previously competed in 2013-14 with a torn ACl in her right knee.  She does wear high performance knee braces. Retired, but returned with a partial titanium knee replacement in 2024. She last week fell and tore her  left knee ACL. But she will need to ski downhill at more than 70 MPH. By the way,  Chloe Kim , also of the U.S., the two-time Olympic halfpipe gold medalist, suffered a torn labrum and dislocated shoulder after a fall in Switzerland in early January this year.  However she has returned to train and too said she will be good to go. NBC news anchor Savannah Guthries' mother Nancy, is still missing .   Follow ...

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