Three Americans Make Olympic Women's Halfpipe Finals

Long live the switch method.

With her partner Myles Garrett and halfpipe legend Shaun White watching from the bottom of the pipe,  Chloe Kim already had the top spot of qualification all but locked up with a score of 90.25. She could have taken it easy on her second run.

She didn’t.

Kim threw a massive backside 720 on her first hit and went huge with a switch method on her second hit. A cab 1080 and frontside 900 followed, and while she didn’t improve upon her first run, she made one thing clear...