Winter Olympics 2018: Twitter shows Chloe Kim love for winning halfpipe gold

Tom Gatto

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Winter Olympics 2018: Twitter shows Chloe Kim love for winning halfpipe gold image

Chloe Kim won Olympic gold and Twitter on Tuesday in South Korea.

The 17-year-old U.S. snowboarding star won the ladies' halfpipe final thanks to a superior first run (of three), which was followed by a second in-competition food tweet in as many days.

UPDATE: Kim, via The Washington Post, explained what was up with the sandwich:

UPDATE 2: MORE FOOD TWEETS!

Anyway, Kim had the gold won before her final run, so she turned the finale into a personal challenge to earn a perfect score (she just missed).

YEAR IN PREVIEW: Kim was one of SN's Faces of 2018

Didn't matter. In Twitter's mind, the golden girl was still 100.

Tom Gatto

Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.