Chloe Kim, an American snowboarding star who has been preparing for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, revealed that she took “the silliest fall,” which has now put her status for next month in doubt.
In an emotional Instagram post on Thursday, Jan. 8, Kim admitted that she suffered an accident while training in Laax, Switzerland, earlier this week. She explained how she was trying to go up the ramp of the halfpipe, but fell into the wall face-first and slid down. As a result, she landed awkwardly on her arm.
Chloe Kim Says She Dislocated Her Shoulder
“Ugh… I hate that I have to make this video. But I felt that it was necessary, so here we go,” Kim said in the video. “I’ve been here for a couple of days. I’m currently in Switzerland and on my second day of training, I took the silliest fall.”
She then shared a video of the incident that occurred on the halfpipe.
“And that ultimately resulted in me dislocating my shoulder,” she added. “I think I don’t have much clarity right now because I haven’t gotten an MRI yet, but that’s scheduled for tomorrow.”
“I’m not in that much pain,” Kim further explained. “Obviously, I just don’t want it to keep popping out which has happened. So yeah, just trying to stay really optimistic.”
Kim is still aiming to compete, with her focus being to relax and get better over the next month.
“I feel really good about where my snowboarding is at right now, so I know that the minute I get cleared and I’m good to go, I should be fine. I’m just hoping that doesn’t take too long,” she said. “But I’m going to be chilling the next little while, so if you have any recs on how I should kill all this time that I have, please let me know.”
Chloe Kim Has A Chance To Make History This Year
At the Olympic games next month, Kim has the opportunity to win her third straight gold medal. And if she does, she will become the first action-sports athlete to win three straight gold medals.
Legendary snowboarder Shaun White won three gold medals in the halfpipe, but that was over five Olympic Games.
Kim won gold for the first time in 2018 when she was just 17 years old, becoming the youngest woman to medal in sports history. Then, four years later, she won gold once again in Beijing.
