14-year-old becomes youngest winter X Games winner

Fourteen-year-old Chloe Kim made history recently by becoming the youngest person to win a winter X Games event. She has been snowboarding since she was four years old. She didn’t get to compete in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games because she was too young, but she’s still making her mark.

She took to the half pipe with a bandage on her face because she crashed in practice just before the competition began, but that didn’t slow her down.“I’d say the nerves were there, but she thrives in that situation,” said one of her coaches, Benjamin Wisner.

“I think every athlete gets nervous. But Chloe has a great attitude and a pretty strong mental game. She’s a great competitor. She can relax even in nervous situations. I’m sure there were some nerves, but she just loves to snowboard and she loves riding in front of a crowd.”I am just so amazed that I was able to land all that. It was so fun,” Kim said.

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Albino dolphin spotted in Florida

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission volunteer caught a white bottlenose dolphin on video on December 10 in the Indian River Lagoon in Brevard County.Officials will not be releasing the exact location where it was filmed because they do not want people to go there and disturb the dolphin.

There have only been about a dozen recorded sightings of albino dolphins since 1962. The same thing that causes some humans to have red hair and fair skin also causes some dolphins to have white skin: melanin pigments.

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Sick boy gives make-a-wish trip to his best friend

Six-year-old Levi Mayhew used his Make-A-Wish Foundation wish to take his best friend to Disney World.Mayhew hasn’t been able to talk, walk, or eat on his own in the last year as he suffers from a rare and fatal genetic disorder.

When he became eligible for a wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, he was too sick to travel anywhere – so he gave his wish away to his friend Emma Broyer.She has been one of Mayhew’s biggest supporters and writes him notes of encouragement and tells other friends to do the same. It means a lot to him and his family, so, to thank her, they wanted her “to visit the theme parks and see the ocean” in Florida.

They surprised her with the trip at a local restaurant by giving her a t-shirt that read “Levi wished for ME to go to Disney!!” “It felt so good to give back to this little girl,” said Mayhew’s mother, Rebecca Drake. “Emma had given so much to us without even realising it. It’s a very warm feeling to know that another child loves and cares so much for your child, especially while facing the challenges stacked against us. It’s so innocent and pure.

If angels really do walk the earth, Emma is one. She’s Levi’s angel.” Even though Mayhew couldn’t go along with Broyer in person, she still found a way to bring him. She and her family brought a paper cutout with Mayhew’s face on it with them on their trip and took photos of it with them on all of their adventures. They took all the photos of “Flat Levi” and put them in a scrapbook titled “Emma and Levi’s trip” and gave it to Mayhew’s family when they got home.

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