LAAX, Switzerland (AP) — Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim stated Thursday that she dislocated her shoulder in coaching and doesn’t know whether or not she wil be capable of compete on the Winter Games in Italy subsequent month.
Kim posted footage of her fall from earlier this week on the halfpipe in Laax, the place the world’s prime snowboarders compete later this month in a key pre-Olympic tune-up. She landed a soar cleanly however misplaced her edge and went skittering throughout the pipe, face down.
She stated she is “making an attempt to remain optimistic” about competing on the Olympics however “I don’t have a lot readability now.”
The 25-year-old Kim stated she has an MRI scheduled for Friday that can reveal the extent of the harm.
“The constructive factor is, I’ve vary, I’m not in that a lot ache, I simply don’t need it to maintain coming out, which has occurred,” she stated. “I’m simply making an attempt to remain actually optimistic. I really feel actually good about the place my snowboarding is at proper now, so I do know the minute I get cleared and I’m good to go, I ought to be high quality.”
