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Chloe Kim SHREDDING BARRIERS
克洛伊·金姆 粉碎障礙
BY DAVID CHANG
文/大衛·張
(Chang is the founder of the Momofuku restaurant group)
(注：張是福桃餐飲集團創始人)
In 2014, during the Sochi Olympics,
2014年索契冬奧會期間，
I was watching women’s snowboarding with a friend who works in the sports world.
我和在體育界工作的一位朋友一起看了女子單板滑雪比賽。
“The best snowboarder isn’t even here,” he said, “because she’s too young.”
“最好的滑雪運動員根本就沒來，”他說，“因為年齡不夠?！?/div>
My friend was talking about Chloe Kim.
我朋友說的就是克洛伊·金。
I remember thinking, The best snowboarder in the world is 13 years old?
我還記得我當時在想，世界上最優秀的滑雪運動員才13歲?
And she’s also Korean American?
還是個韓裔美國人?
Those are two things you don’t normally hear together.
這兩個標簽是我們不怎么會同時聽到的。
Four years later, at the PyeongChang Olympics,
四年后，在平昌奧運會上，
everyone got to see that talent on display when Chloe won gold in the half-pipe competition.
當克洛伊拿下U型場地決賽冠軍時，每個人都看到了她的才華。
I felt two things simultaneously:
當時，我的心情可以說是喜憂參半：
incredibly happy for her—I made her a celebratory churro ice cream sandwich, which I think she called “bomb”—
我既為她感到無比的高興——我給她做了一個吉事果冰激凌三明治以示慶祝，我記得她還給這個三明治起了個“炸彈”的名字——
but also sad, because the whole world was about to descend on this now 17-year-old girl.
也為她感到悲傷，因為整個世界都將壓到這個現在只有17歲的女孩身上。
It’s hard for me to imagine the amount of pressure Chloe must have internalized.
我很難想象克洛依承受了多大的壓力。
As fans, we saddled her with four years’ worth of built-up expectations.
作為粉絲，我們讓她背負了四年的期待。
Asian-American fans further piled on their hopes that she would shatter Asian stereotypes on her way to the podium.
亞裔美國球迷也寄希望于她能在登上領獎臺的路上打破人們對亞裔的刻板印象。
And to top it all off, she was competing in her parents’ birth country, one that is notoriously judgmental of its diaspora.
最重要的是，她是在她父母出生的國家參加比賽，而這個國家對散居國外的同胞的評判出了名的糟糕。
And you know what?
結果呢?
She crushed it. Blew us all out of the water.
她在比賽中完勝。讓我們所有人都對她刮目相看了。
Now the best thing Chloe Kim can do is be Chloe Kim.
現在，克洛伊·金能做的最好的事就是做克洛伊·金。
That’s not being selfish—that’s letting people know they don’t have to be anything that anyone says they should be.
這不是自私，而是讓大家知道，他們不必按照他人的想法而活。
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