2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Latest News, Photos, and Videos

Chloe Kim made snowboarding history last night at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

In between tweeting about ice cream and her half-eaten breakfast sandwich, the 17-year-old athlete performed her runs, securing a gold medal by the first run alone.

She was ahead by almost eight points — so really, no contest.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Chloe Kim

“I hate crying but I’ll give myself a pass for this one,” Chloe wrote on Twitter after the competition. “Thank you everyone for the love! Stoked to bring home the gold.”

The next morning, Chloe joked with Today about getting teary-eyed on the podium, but didn’t shed any tears: “I worked so hard on my eyeliner.”

Chloe Kim is a gold medal winner at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics!

The 17-year-old snowboarder took home the gold in the women’s halfpipe snowboarding event on Tuesday (February 13) in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Chloe was guaranteed to win by her third run but took the opportunity to go all out during her final turn on the halfpipe, earning her a score of 98.25.

Before taking to the slopes for her final run, Chloe took to Twitter to reveal what she was really thinking about, and honestly, we totally relate:

“Wish I finished my breakfast sandwich but my stubborn self decided not to and now I’m getting hangry,” Chloe tweeted.

Congrats Chloe!!!

If you watched the Olympics last night, you probably saw Adam Rippon and Mirai Nagasu‘s strong friendship just leap off the screen and into your home.

When he was performing, she was there supporting and when she nailed her history-making triple axel on the ice, Adam was screaming in his seat.

“I just remember four years ago Mirai and I were in a dark place,” Adam shared. “We were so upset and sad and, honestly, we were like depressed that we weren’t at (the Olympic Games).”

“It was bad,” he added in a chat with Team USA. “It wasn’t good. I told her as we were going through that, I said, ‘Mirai, I’m so lucky to have you by my side. We’re going to get through this together.’ And I kept telling her. I say it every five minutes. We room together at the village.”

Mirai and Adam‘s strong friendship was actually strengthened by not being at the 2014 Sochi Games, and instead, being on top of a rooftop eating In-N-Out together.

“Tonight, you know, the Olympics are truly magical, because we came out here tonight, and we gave each other a hug, and I said, ‘You know, Mirai, we’re here! We did it!’”

Watch Adam‘s reaction to Mirai‘s performance below:

Chloe Kim is the snowboarder who everyone is talking about — and poised to bring home a medal in the sport from the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

But, just how did the 17-year-old athlete get her start in snowboarding? Well, we have the dad, Jong Jin, to thank for that.

Chloe had a $25 board and by the age of six, was already competing in junior competitions around the states.

“He actually dragged me to the mountain when I was 4 to bribe my mom to come snowboard with him, so it really wasn’t voluntary on my part,” Chloe revealed of her dad’s true intent. “But I’m actually really glad he did that. And I’m really glad he just kept bringing me to the mountain.”

For a while, Chloe actually moved to Switzerland with her aunt when she was just in 3rd grade, and of course snowboarding was involved — and the trip meant taking two trains and a gondola to ride the halfpipe at Avoriaz in France.

But Olympics wasn’t on the family’s mind then. The reason Chloe‘s dad sent her to Switzerland was much, much different than that.

“We didn’t really expect that you can bring her to the Olympics because her (mother’s) family, my family, no one is an athlete out of our family history,” Jong Jin said. “So the reason Chloe went to Switzerland is not because of snowboard. It’s because I want her to learn French.”

But the snowboarding bug had already bit Chloe by then.

“After I was 9 or 10, it was all uphill for me,” she shared. “I loved it more and more every year, and it was just a really exciting process for me.”

Chloe will show off her skills in the Snowboard halfpipe finals tonight @ 8PM ET/PT on NBC.

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are ice dance royalty and their programs are always the kind that you have to stop everything you’re doing and just watch.

Last night, the ice dance team performed their Moulin Rouge “Roxanne” program at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics for the team event — securing that gold medal — but something was a little different about it.

Turns out, Tessa and Scott actually “toned down” the program for the Olympics.

“What it came down to actually was that when we slowed it down and looked on the video, [the lift] wasn’t aesthetically that beautiful of a position, so we wanted to change it, make it a little bit better,” Scott shared with The Star.

The lift has Tessa‘s lower regions right in Scott‘s face. Now, in the modified lift, Tessa only straddles Scott‘s shoulders for a brief moment before dipping one knee down and then dismounting.

“We wanted to make a bit of a different statement, and if that was bringing a certain edge or sexuality or darkness or a contemporary feeling to it, mission accomplished I guess,” Tessa adds.

Watch the original routine below:

There are regular group selfie pics, and then there are Team USA selfie pics and the US Figure Skating Olympic team has one of the best!

Ice dancer Alex Shibutani snapped the epic shot of the (almost the) whole team after winning the bronze medal at the team event over the weekend in South Korea at the Olympics — and it was quickly shared by the entire team on social media.

Bradie Tennell captioned it, “Squad goals”, and we definitely have to agree.

Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon, Mirai Nagasu, pairs skaters Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim, and Alex‘s sis and ice dance partner Maia Shibutani are all featured in the photo.

“I’m just so proud of this entire team,” Maia shared afterwards. “It was so special for us. This is the first team event that Alex and I were a part of. To have this experience at the Olympic Games, to come away with a medal for our country and for each other, I think we’ll come into the individual event with so much more confidence.”

Mirai Nagasu totally blew us away at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics!

The 24-year-old just became the first American figure skater to land the rare and incredibly difficult triple axel during the Olympics!

Mirai completed the move during the free skate portion of the figure skating team event on Monday morning (February 12) in PyeongChang, South Korea.

The move, which requires a forward takeoff and three-and-a-half rotations in the air, has only ever been completed in competition by Mirai , Tonya Harding and Kimmie Meissner. However, they didn’t do it at the Olympics.

Congratulations Mirai!

Watch it all go down below…