What were you doing at 17 years old? Flunking physics? Dedicating your hours to building the perfect D&D character? Writing treacly love poems to your crush who couldn't even remember your name? (I was playing unhealthy amounts of "Call of Duty 2" online and speeding in my parents' old Volvo station wagon.) Whatever it was, it can't possibly compare to what U.S. Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim has already achieved.
In the fifth day of the Games in PyeongChang, the southern California native absolutely annihilated the rest of the field in the women's snowboard halfpipe final, winning her first gold medal in her first ever Olympic event—and it wasn't even close.