Eileen Gu: China’s Olympic champion on downtime routine of piano, composing and meditation at Beijing 2022

Eileen Gu is writing, composing and playing piano as she looks to remain focused before trying to add to her big air freestyle skiing gold at Beijing 2022. The Chinese star broke the internet in China after landing a 1620 trick to become an Olympic champion by just 0.75 points ahead of France’s Tess Ledeux. Ad/> Gu is hoping for further glory in the freeski slopestyle and halfpipe, and she opened up to Olympics.com about her downtime between events.

Beijing 2022Gu uses huge following to spread love for sport and inspire others04/02/2022 AT 09:51 «I’m a very introverted person naturally so I do a lot of journaling, I do a lot of self-reflection. I play piano a lot. I actually have a keyboard here with me,» she said.

«It’s really small but I just have it in my room so I play it and compose stuff at night. I take really long showers, I meditate. »All of those things to kind of just keep to myself and stay in my own head as opposed to listening to all these voices who you know, 90 per cent of the time don’t know what they’re talking about so…" Gu is American born but was raised by her Chinese mother, and chose to represent China back in 2019 — saying in Beijing she will not «waste time» wading into discussions about her nationality.

Gu breaks the internet with Olympic gold for China China’s Gu ‘not going to waste time’ on nationality debate after big air gold ‘I am not crying, you are!’ — Gu claims gold medal on home snow She has certainly been a hit in China, with her victory in the big air causing Chinese social media channel Weibo to crash due to the amount of people congratulating the 18-year-old, who is also a model. «This Olympics is everything I could have dreamed of and more,» she added. «For one, being surrounded by