snowboarding – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com Good Celebrity is your best source for positive celebrity news and interviews Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:35:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://goodcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-gc_logo_button_bkgd512px-32x32.png snowboarding – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com 32 32 Shaun White Makes Olympic History With Gold Medal Three-Peat https://goodcelebrity.com/2018/02/14/shaun-white-gold-medal-three-peat/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:35:55 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=4046 Redemption! After falling short at the 2014 Sochi Games, Shaun White returned to the 2018 Winter Olympics with all eyes on a gold medal in his signature halfpipe event. Today he did just that, making history as snowboarding’s first-three time Olympic gold medalist. Additionally, the 31-year-old becomes the first athlete to win Olympic gold 12 years apart. This also marks […]

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]]> Redemption! After falling short at the 2014 Sochi Games, Shaun White returned to the 2018 Winter Olympics with all eyes on a gold medal in his signature halfpipe event. Today he did just that, making history as snowboarding’s first-three time Olympic gold medalist. Additionally, the 31-year-old becomes the first athlete to win Olympic gold 12 years apart.

This also marks Team USA’s 100th gold medal overall at the Winter Games.

After a pair of flawless runs, White entered his third and final run in second place behind Team Japan’s Ayumu Hirano. The “Flying Tomato,” as he’s lovingly called, performed perfectly under pressure. As his near-perfect score of 97.75 was announced, Shaun threw his snowboard into the air, dropped to his knees and broke down in tears of joy.

Just yesterday, White’s teammate, 17-year-old Chloe Kim, made history as the youngest woman to medal in snowboarding. The U.S. has now topped the podium in all four snowboarding events at PyeongChang, with Red Gerard winning men’s slopestyle and Jamie Anderson taking the gold in women’s slopestyle.

Congratulations, Team USA!

This article originally appeared on E News.




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]]> Snowboarder Chloe Kim Wins Gold for the U.S. in Women’s Halfpipe https://goodcelebrity.com/2018/02/13/chloe-kim-wins-gold/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:43:02 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=4035 Chloe Kim, 17, won gold in the women’s halfpipe event at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Monday, February 12, giving the U.S. its third gold medal in PyeongChang, South Korea. The teen from Southern California, who was competing in her first Olympic games, is the first female snowboarder to complete back-to-back 1080s in competition and […]

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]]> Chloe Kim, 17, won gold in the women’s halfpipe event at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Monday, February 12, giving the U.S. its third gold medal in PyeongChang, South Korea.

The teen from Southern California, who was competing in her first Olympic games, is the first female snowboarder to complete back-to-back 1080s in competition and scored an incredible 98.25 to nab the gold. China’s Jiayu Liu took silver and fellow American Arielle Gold earned the bronze.

The first generation Korean-American seemed to take all the excitement in stride, tweeting about eating to calm the butterflies in her stomach.

Over the weekend she wrote about downing two churros — “they were pretty bomb so if you ever get nervous go eat a churro,” she tweeted.

On Monday, during her competition, she tweeted, “Could be down for some ice cream rn,” and followed it up with, “Wish I finished my breakfast sandwich but my stubborn self decided not to and now I’m getting hangry.”

In an interview with Us Weekly before the games, Kim said that her favorite fast food is Chipotle and her go-to meal “is anything that I can pop in the oven.”

The Torrance, California, native was determined to enjoy her first Olympics and had suggestions for other hopefuls with Us.

“My biggest piece of advice would just be to have fun,” she said. “I mean, a lot of times it’s really hard, to get a little overwhelmed.”

The key she said is “keeping it fun and just remembering why you started and why you’re still in love with this sport. Just have fun, keep the smile on your face and you’ll be good.”

This article originally appeared on US Weekly.




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