2026 Winter Olympics: Chloe Kim says she’s ‘good to go’ despite labrum tear in shoulder
US snowboard star Chloe Kim facing race against clock to get fit for Milano Cortina Games after Swiss accident
Snowboarder Chloe Kim says she’s “good to go” for the Milano Cortina Olympics despite tearing the labrum in her shoulder during a training run last week in Switzerland.
Now comes a race against the clock to see if she can get ready for a contest that starts in less than a month.
The winner of the last two Olympic gold medals in the halfpipe posted an update to Instagram on Tuesday, saying she wasn’t surprised to learn she had torn her labrum – the lining of the socket that holds the shoulder together. She did not say which shoulder she injured when she fell while getting ready for this weekend’s Laax Open.
“There are two ways to do it, and the way I did it is less severe than the other, so I’m really happy about that,” she said.
“Obviously, I’m really disappointed that I can’t snowboard until right before the Olympics, which is going to be hard. I haven’t gotten nearly the amount of reps that I would have liked, but that’s OK.”
The women’s Olympic halfpipe contest starts February 11.
