The roughest time of the year for Chloe Kim – the offseason – is almost over.
The two-time Olympic gold-medal snowboarder’s first event of the 2025-26 season – which includes the 2026 Winter Olympics – starts this month. Sometimes, Kim’s anxiety fuels thoughts that she’ll wake up one day forgetting how to snowboard, as if the 25-year-old didn’t become the first woman to repeat as the Olympic halfpipe champion at the 2022 Beijing Games.
“But the minute I get my snowboard on, I’m like, ‘Oh, why was I being so dramatic? I’m totally fine,’” she said.
Kim spoke to USA TODAY Sports in November through her partnership with Ad Council’s “Love, Your Mind” campaign that included other elite athletes such as Paige Bueckers, Bijan Robinson and Karl-Anthony Towns.
“Obviously I was super down and into it because mental health is a very important topic to me,” Kim said. “So whenever we can continue to spread that messaging it’s what I’m here for.”
