Asian American star athletes Chloe Kim and Eileen Gu each claimed silver medals at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics in separate finals over the past two days in northern Italy. Kim, 25,
finished second in the women’s snowboard halfpipe in Livigno with a score of 88.00, edged by South Korea’s Choi Ga-on late in the competition. Gu, 22,
earned her silver in women’s freeski slopestyle after posting 86.58 in her opening run, narrowly behind Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud.