In the middle of her most current streak of success, Kim informed Shape that, to enter that champion mode, “I definitely think I switch mentally. I completely tune out, and I become a different person. I’m Chloe Kim, the snowboarder. But when I’m home, I’m Chloe Kim, the Cali girl. There’s a different Chloe when I’m on snow, and I love her. She’s the best.”
Happily, it sounds as though nowadays she has terrific love for the other Chloe, too.
“I really do love snowboarding and I love being part of the progression of the sport,” Kim informed press reporters when she got to the Olympic Village inBeijing She could not wait to begin practicing at the location and, she guaranteed, “I’m not stressed out. I was [for] a number of years after [Pyeongchang], which is why I went to school. I was grateful that I did that, and now I’m delighted to be here.”
“There is added pressure because it’s an Olympics,” she included, sharing that she’s been dealing with “amplitude as well as variety” and attempting to “incorporate all four directions of spins.” But “I’ve been approaching it as just another contest. That’s the mental approach I’m taking.”
And yes, life got “very challenging” after she won gold in 2018, and it was “the only thing I could blame,” she remembered when asked why she at first tossed her medal away. “But don’t worry, I got it out of the trash. It’s not in there anymore.”
