“I think this is what Chloe Kim must have felt like after doing back-to-back 1080s.”
Best Actress winner Frances McDormand capped an Academy Awards night with several Olympian attendees, including the first Olympic gold medalist to win an Oscar, by shouting out the teenage halfpipe champion.
Kim watched.
.@chloekimsnow in case u needed the vid pic.twitter.com/rDhVmroyUn
— ALSO, KEITH FUJIMOTO (@vineydelnegro) March 5, 2018
I am SHOOK rn like what
— Chloe Kim (@chloekimsnow) March 5, 2018
Hey Frances let's go snowboarding sometime ud83dude48
— Chloe Kim (@chloekimsnow) March 5, 2018
In other Olympian Oscar news, Kobe Bryant became the first gold medalist to win an Oscar (“Dear Basketball,” Bryant’s retirement announcement, for Best Animated Short Film), according to @OlympicStatman.