Chloe Kim Crushes the Competition to Win America’s Third Snowboard Gold Medal at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics

Feb 13, 2018, 01:26 PM

On the morning his teenage daughter flipped and McTwisted her way to a gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games — and thereby cemented her status as America's newest superstar of the PyeongChang Olympics — Kim Jong Jin, father of halfpipe snowboarding champion Chloe Kim, sent her a text message.

Kim immigrated to the United States from South Korea and Chloe, 17, was born in 2000 — the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac.