ZHANGJIAKOU, China – It’s hard enough to win one Olympic gold medal, let alone two. Just ask the female snowboarders who have tried in the past 20 years.
Most of them went on to win another medal, though they never got back to the top of the podium. So they know, more than anyone, the difficulty of what Chloe Kim is attempting – to become the first woman in Olympic history to take gold in the halfpipe for a second time.