Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim said that she dislocated her shoulder in training and doesn’t know whether she wil be able to compete at the Winter Games in Italy next month.<\/b>
\nTwo-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim said Thursday that she dislocated her shoulder in training and doesn\u2019t know whether she wil be able to compete at the Winter Games in Italy next month.
Kim posted footage of her fall from earlier this week on the halfpipe in Laax, where the world\u2019s top snowboarders compete later this month in a key pre-Olympic tune-up. She landed a jump cleanly but lost her edge and went skittering across the pipe, face down.
She said she is \u201ctrying to stay optimistic\u201d about competing at the Olympics but \u201cI don\u2019t have much clarity now.\u201d
The 25-year-old Kim said she has an MRI scheduled for Friday that will reveal the extent of the damage.
\u201cThe positive thing is, I have range, I\u2019m not in that much pain, I just don\u2019t want it to keep popping out, which has happened,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to stay really optimistic. I feel really good about where my snowboarding is at right now, so I know the minute I get cleared and I\u2019m good to go, I should be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n