17-year-old snowboarding phenom Gaon Choi of Team South Korea went down in an enormous crash throughout Thursday’s ladies’s halfpipe last.
After being down for a number of minutes whereas receiving medical consideration, Choi was capable of transfer all extremities.
LIVIGNO, ITALY – FEBRUARY 12: Gaon Choi of Team Republic of Korea is handled by medical workers after she crashes throughout the Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe Final on day six of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic video games at Livigno Snow Park on February 12, 2026 in Livigno, Italy. (Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images)
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Choi was thought-about the highest competitors for snowboarder Chloe Kim, who entered Thursday in search of to affix Shaun White as the one Olympic athlete to three-peat gold in the occasion (he did so in 2006, 2010 and 2018).