FILE PHOTO: Oslo 20160226. X Games Oslo 2016: Snowboard superpipe women: Winner Chloe Kim from USA in action, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Vegard Wivestad Grott/NTB Scanpix/File Photo
MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, Calif. (Reuters) - Seventeen-year-old American snowboarding prodigy Chloe Kim is enjoying the media frenzy surrounding her first Olympics, where her status as favourite to win gold in halfpipe has made her among the most talked about athletes heading into the Games.
"It's really fun," she told Reuters after finishing second in the U.S. Grand Prix in Mammoth Mountain.
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