2026年2月12日 / 美国东部时间下午5:12 / CBS/美联社
周四，美国单板滑雪运动员克洛伊·金（Chloe Kim）冲击成为首位获得三届奥运会单板滑雪金牌的选手的努力功亏一篑，在女子U型场地技巧项目中不敌韩国选手崔佳恩（Choi Gaon），获得银牌。
崔佳恩在从一次令全场观众鸦雀无声的糟糕摔倒中反弹后，击败了这位两届卫冕冠军。这位17岁的选手在最后一轮滑行中以90.25分的成绩跃居领先，再次让全场观众倒吸一口凉气。
美国选手克洛伊·金在2026年米兰-科尔蒂纳冬奥会第六个比赛日、意大利利维尼奥滑雪公园进行的女子U型场地技巧比赛第二轮中。（David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images）
金还有最后一次机会重返巅峰，但这位25岁的美国人在最后一轮滑行中摔倒，最终获得银牌。日本选手小野光希（Mitsuki Ono）获得铜牌。
金的父母从韩国移民到美国，她在崔佳恩的年轻职业生涯中一直鼓励她。如今，金将奥运冠军头衔传给了她所激励的这位少女。
“这就像是传递火炬，所以在领奖台上，我最想站在她旁边的人就是她，”金说，“我为她感到无比骄傲，也非常期待看到她未来的表现。”
崔佳恩在决赛中的夺冠机会一度岌岌可危，当时她重重撞向U型池的斜坡，滑到场地中央，在那里停留了几分钟。经过医护人员的检查和处理后，她无需他人协助便滑离了赛场。
当时还不清楚她是否会参加第二轮比赛，但她确实回来了，并且成功完成。随后，她在U型池的滑行表现出色，足以摘得金牌。
2023年，14岁的崔佳恩成为最年轻的X Games（极限运动会）冠军。如今，这位首次参加奥运会的选手成为自2010年澳大利亚选手托拉·布莱特（Torah Bright）以来首位在单板滑雪顶级赛事中夺冠的非美国女性选手。2014年索契冬奥会，美国选手凯特琳·法林顿（Kaitlyn Farrington）夺冠，金则在平昌和北京冬奥会上成功卫冕。
崔佳恩在2023年以14岁的年龄成为最年轻的X Games冠军。现在，这位首次参加奥运会的选手成为自2010年澳大利亚选手托拉·布莱特以来首位在单板滑雪顶级赛事中夺冠的非美国女性选手。2014年索契冬奥会，美国选手凯特琳·法林顿夺冠，金则在平昌和北京冬奥会上成功卫冕。
金在四周前肩部受伤，这影响了她赛前的准备状态。尽管她佩戴着护具参赛，但这并没有阻止她在资格赛中统治赛场。
“显然，我非常失望，因为我在奥运会前四周才开始滑雪训练，这会很困难，”金在上个月的Instagram帖子中表示。
但在周四的决赛之后，这位加州姑娘表示，她的肩部需要接受手术——考虑到她是带伤参赛，无论获得何种颜色的奥运奖牌都是一种胜利。
“我想，当时有很多关于‘三连冠’的讨论，”她说，“我之前确实考虑过，但当我受伤的那一刻，我就意识到这不再重要了。所以对我来说，这已经是一种胜利，因为一个月前我觉得这几乎不可能实现。”
在金第一轮滑行获得88分时，她似乎有望再次庆祝金牌胜利，而崔佳恩和其他大多数决赛选手都出现了失误。
但金在剩余的两次滑行中都无法保持平衡，而她第一轮的分数也不足以支撑她夺冠。
2018年，金成为有史以来最年轻的冬奥会单板滑雪女子金牌得主。在花了近两年时间专注于学业和心理健康后，她重返赛场，并在北京冬奥会上成功卫冕女子U型场地技巧金牌。
在本届奥运会上，不止金一人错失了连续三届冬奥会金牌的里程碑。捷克选手埃斯特·莱德卡（Ester Ledecka）在高山滑雪平行大回转项目中失利，奥地利选手安娜·加瑟（Anna Gasser）在大跳台项目中也未能卫冕。她们两人同样是两届卫冕冠军。
美国单板滑雪传奇人物肖恩·怀特（Shaun White）曾三次获得U型场地技巧金牌，但并非连续夺冠。他在2006年、2010年和2018年三次夺冠，2014年获得第四名。
周四，怀特也出现在观众席上，当金在最后一轮摔倒时，他不禁倒吸一口凉气。金的男友、克利夫兰布朗队防守端锋迈尔斯·加雷特（Myles Garrett）以及史努比·狗狗（Snoop Dogg）也在观众席为她加油。和许多观众一样，他们聚集在这里，期待着这位单板滑雪界的大牌人物冲击奥运历史。
然而，他们看到的是崔佳恩在领奖台上含泪举起奖牌——而她与自己的偶像金在领奖台上仅差一步之遥。
American snowboarder Chloe Kim takes silver in women’s halfpipe, falls short of Olympic three-peat
February 12, 2026 / 5:12 PM EST / CBS/AP
Chloe Kim fell short in her bid to become the first Olympic snowboarder to win three consecutive gold medals, finishing second to Choi Gaon of South Korea in the women’s halfpipe on Thursday.
Choi dethroned the two-time defending champion after she bounced back from an ugly crash that had silenced the crowd. The 17-year-old drew another collective gasp when she jumped into the lead with a score of 90.25 on her final run.
USA’s Chloe Kim during run two of the Women’s Half Pipe at the Livigno Snow Park, on day six of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy. David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images
Kim had one more shot to get back on top, but the 25-year-old American wiped out on her final run and settled for silver. Japan’s Mitsuki Ono claimed bronze.
Kim, whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from South Korea, had encouraged Choi throughout her young career. Now she has handed over the Olympic title to the teenager she inspired.
“It’s all about passing the torch, so there’s no one else I would have rather stood next to on the podium than her,” Kim said. “I’m so proud of her and I’m so excited to see what she does next.”
Choi’s chances in the final looked to be in jeopardy when she slammed into the incline of the halfpipe and slid to the middle of the course, where she remained for several minutes. After being attended to by medical staff, she rode off the course unassisted.
It wasn’t clear that she would even come back for her second run, but she did and got it down. Then came her turn down the halfpipe that was good for gold.
USA’s Chloe Kim with her silver medal (left), Republic of Korea’s Choi Ga-on with her gold medal (middle) and Japan’s Mitsuki Ono with her bronze medal (right) on the podium after the Women’s Half Pipe on day six of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy. David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images
Choi became the youngest X Games winner in 2023 at age 14. Now the first-time Olympian is first non-American woman to win gold in snowboarding’s premier event since Torah Bright of Australia in 2010. Kaitlyn Farrington won for the U.S. in 2014 at the Sochi Olympics, and Kim triumphed in Pyeongchang and Beijing.
Kim injured her shoulder four weeks ago, disrupting her lead-in to the Games. She competed wearing a brace, which didn’t stop her from dominating the field in qualifying.
“Obviously, I’m really disappointed that I can’t snowboard until right before the Olympics, which is going to be hard,” Kim said last month in an Instagram post.
But after Thursday’s final, the California native said she would need surgery on her shoulder — and that winning an Olympic medal of any color was a victory given that she was riding hurt.
“I think that there was a lot of conversation happening about the three-peat,” she said. “I was thinking about it before, but I think the minute I injured myself I was like, that doesn’t matter anymore. So this feels like a win to me because a month ago it didn’t seem too possible.”
Another gold-medal celebration had looked likely after Kim scored 88 points on her first run, while Choi and most of the other finalists wiped out.
But Kim couldn’t stay upright on either of her remaining runs, and her score from the first wasn’t good enough.
In 2018, Kim became the youngest woman snowboarder ever to win an Olympic gold medal. After taking almost two years off to focus on her studies and mental health, she returned to competition and won her second straight Olympic gold in women’s halfpipe in Beijing.
Kim is not alone in letting the milestone of golds in three consecutive Winter Olympics slip away at these Games. Czech Ester Ledecka fell short in Alpine snowboarding’s parallel giant slalom, as did Austria’s Anna Gasser in big air. Both were also two-time defending champions.
American snowboarding great Shaun White won three gold medals on the halfpipe, but not consecutively. He won in 2006, 2010 and 2018. He finished fourth in 2014.
White was in the crowd Thursday and cringed after Kim fell on her final run. Kim’s boyfriend, Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, was also in her cheering section, along with Snoop Dogg. Like many in the crowd, they had gathered to watch one of the biggest names in snowboarding go for Olympic history.
Instead, they watched Choi wipe away tears as she held up her medal, one step up on the podium from the rider who has been her idol.
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