--- title: Alex Kang-chan Kam Won the 2018 Olympics With This Meme description: No one can stop talking about figure skater Alex Kang-chan Kam's cool double sunglasses move because it's the GIF that was born to go viral. canonical: https://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-12T17:47:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:32.362Z og:title: Meet the Olympic Figure Skater Who Was Born to Be Internet Gold og:description: He's already won the internet og:url: https://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3805d125d6bb03d6/6989271d86f68e05086e83e0/gettyimages-915968870.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3262 og:image:height: 1835 og:image:alt: Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 0 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Olympic Figure Skater Who Was Born to Be Internet Gold twitter:description: He's already won the internet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3805d125d6bb03d6/6989271d86f68e05086e83e0/gettyimages-915968870.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meet the Olympic Figure Skater Who Was Born to Be Internet Gold > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 12, 2018 5:47 PM UTC  GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 09: Kyueun Kim and Alex Kang Chan Kam of Korea compete in the Figure Skating Team Event - Pair Skating Short Program during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 9, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 09: Kyueun Kim and Alex Kang Chan Kam of Korea compete in the Figure Skating Team Event - Pair Skating Short Program during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 9, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Harry How—Getty Images by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Feb 12, 2018 5:47 PM UTC Now that the 2018 Winter Olympics are in full swing, you may have caught some [historic milestones](http://time.com/5143814/mirai-nagasu-triple-axel-olympics-2018/), but if you were lucky, you saw one man redefine human achievement with his eyewear. You’re not really watching the Winter Olympics if you’re not paying attention to the audience cam. And that’s how South Korea’s Alex Kang-chan Kam figure skater was captured removing his first pair of sunglasses to reveal that he was wearing a pair of aviators underneath them on Monday. While Kam may have finished third at the 2017 International Cup of Nice in France, he landed primo real estate of the first page on Reddit. The savvy move was made for the mememakers of the internet, where Southern Sports Nation’s post of the GIF went viral, scoring 27,000 retweets and 54,000 likes as of Monday afternoon. And it turns out Kam already knows about winning [internet gold](http://time.com/5142016/team-usa-fringed-gloves-memes-olympics-2018/), joking that they were more meaningful than actual Olympic gold medals. Under the username, “kambam95,” he wrote: “Thank you to every single comment for the kind words and thank you also for the golds! They mean more to me than olympic gold medals on this blessed day. This is unreal! Absolutely nutty! I love every single one of you. Here’s to more goofs and gafs and zoops and zaps!” > [](https://twitter.com/SoSportsNation/status/962865316912156673) > [](https://twitter.com/6gibfZLBIlTq9vi/status/962954822239510528) > [](https://twitter.com/stlnskissmartin/status/962945684054851584) > [](https://twitter.com/JCoskrey/status/962886274985050112) > [](https://twitter.com/ispeakforno1/status/962888634989936640) > [](https://twitter.com/LacieFuyu/status/962922104281743360) Some had no words. > [](https://twitter.com/XXXScribbles/status/962995801763950592) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/"},"headline":"Meet the Olympic Figure Skater Who Was Born to Be Internet Gold","datePublished":"2018-02-12T17:47:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:32.362Z","description":"He's already won the internet","url":"https://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","onetime","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3805d125d6bb03d6/6989271d86f68e05086e83e0/gettyimages-915968870.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3805d125d6bb03d6/6989271d86f68e05086e83e0/gettyimages-915968870.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 0","caption":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 0","creditText":"Harry How—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5145999/winter-olympics-2018-alex-kang-chan-kam-meme/","name":"Meet the Olympic Figure Skater Who Was Born to Be Internet Gold"}}]}] ```