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Chloe Kim describes battling through injury at Olympics

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American snowboarder Chloe Kim, who won a silver medal in the women's halfpipe at the 2026 Winter Games in Italy, described to "CBS Mornings" the "intense rehab" she underwent and how she managed to compete through an injury at the Olympics.The 25-year-old tore her labrum in her left shoulder after a crash in late January, less than a month before the Games. She said the injury "wasn't necessarily painful," but said her shoulder kept "coming out of place.""You just have to keep putting it back in and I didn't have time to get surgery, which is the only way to repair it," Kim said in an interview on Tuesday.The decorated Olympian decided she still had to try and opted to compete."I had a shoulder brace on that mobilized or restricted a lot of the movement … so I wasn't able to raise my arm and I couldn't move my arm much at all," she said.Kim had to relearn how to do many of her tricks "because a lot of my tricks require me to use my arms." USA's Chloe Kim during run two of the women's halfpipe at the Milan…

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