Eileen Gu breezes to gold in the ski halfpipe — her 3rd medal of the Olympics: ‘She has basically set a level that’s pretty unattainable for a lot of us’ Jae C. Hong/AP 1 of 26 ...

Eileen Gu from USA won Olympic big air gold for China at Beijing Winter Games. Although Eileen was born in USA but she choose ...

Eileen Gu needed the best jump of her life to win a gold medal. The 18-year-old from California had come to her mother’s home country hoping to win three events at the Winter Olympics while ...

BEIJING — Before Eileen Gu took to the air and spun 4½ times into a new echelon of fame, she called her mother. She needed to make a critical decision: Perfect a familiar trick or unfurl one ...

Eileen Gu amassed an army of cynics when she spurned Team USA to represent China at the Beijing Games. Moments after the biggest run of her life, the 18-year-old freestyle skiing prodigy was asked ...

Eileen Gu is one of the most impressive people on the planet. At just 21 years old, Gu is arguably the best competition freeskier in the world. She has multiple X Games and Olympic medals to her name, ...

Eileen Gu with her gold medal Getty Images “It has been two straight weeks of the most intense highs and lows I’ve ever experienced in my life,” Gu said. “It’s changed my life forever.

Eileen Gu, who grew up in California, wraps herself in China’s flag after winning a silver medal in slopestyle for the host country of the 2022 Beijing Olympics. (Francisco Seco / Associated Press) ...

BEIJING — Eileen Gu stood on two skis at the top of a 200-foot high jump built in the middle of a city where, even at 18 years of age, her image is already ubiquitous. She mimicked the movements ...

Gold medalist China's Eileen Gu poses during a medal ceremony for the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China.

When Eileen Gu won Olympic gold in the Big Air, sales of her red Anta ski suit, complete with slipdrag reduction technology, surged 20-fold on Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com.

Eileen Gu’s medal hopes did not look promising after two runs of the women’s freeski slopestyle event at Genting Snow Park on Tuesday. During her second run, Gu had fallen backwards off the ...