ASPEN, Colo. – Chloe Kim took some time off to heal her body and broaden her mind. Mission(s) accomplished, and now that she's back at her day job — best female athlete in the superpipe — it looks as though she never left.
Now 20, and with a year at Princeton under her belt, the Olympic champion is in the lineup for the Winter X Games, going for her fifth gold medal on the superpipe in Aspen on Saturday night.
Her chance to defend the Olympic title is a scant 13 months away. If she lost much during her 22 months off the snow, it doesn't show.
Kim's first contest back — last week in Laax, Switzerland — ended like most of them do: with a gold medal hanging around her neck and the rest of the field contemplating a superpipe-sized gap between