How Eileen Gu handled home ‘expectations’ to make Olympic history - ‘She’s been the face of Beijing 2022’
Eileen Gu has made history aged just 18, becoming the first freestyle skier to win three medals at one Olympic Games. It started with big air gold as mammoth runs of 93.75 and 94.50 helped the American-born Chinese star beat France’s Tess Ledeux by 0.75 points. Ad/> Then it was slopestyle silver, with Gu’s 86.23 in her final run just 0.33 points behind Swiss gold medallist Mathilde Gremaud.