Eileen Gu breaks Chinese social media after winning Winter Olympics gold
Eileen Gu amassed an army of cynics when she spurned Team USA to represent China at the Beijing Games.
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Winter Olympics 2022 - Freestyle ski star Eileen Gu breaks the internet with big air gold for China
If there was any doubt that Eileen Gu is one of the biggest stars of the Beijing Winter Olympics, that can surely be put to rest now — after she broke the internet in China. After winning what she hopes will be the first of three golds of the Games by taking victory in big air, the freestyle skier and model was flooded by congratulatory messages — which temporarily crashed social media channel Weibo, China’s version of Twitter.
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Winter Olympics 2022: Slopestyle next for Team GB’s Kirsty Muir after brilliant big air - then it’s back to school
Team GB freestyle skier Kirsty Muir is not focusing on a return to exam preparation yet — after making a “dream come true” by competing at the Winter Olympics and finishing fifth in her debut final — the big air competition. The 17-year-old was in bronze medal position after scoring 93.75 in her first run, thanks in part to landing her ‘dub 12’ trick, but was unable to break into the 80s over her next two runs, with China’s American-born star Eileen Gu taking gold ahead of Tess Ledeux of France and Mathilde Gremaud from Switzerland. Ad/> But Muir showed her immense promise, and she will now focus on slopestyle, before she crashes back down to reality.