LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Maybe the most staggering thing of Eileen Gu’s entire gold medal-winning day was she lost her balance on the first trick in her first run. Perhaps she is mortal? But maybe not as Gu defended her Olympic ski halfpipe title on Sunday to make it six medals in six events over … Read more
Eileen Gu qualified in second place for the big air final and then said Winter Olympics organisers were “punishing excellence” because doing so cuts down the amount of training time she has for her favoured halfpipe event. Gu, who won silver in slopestyle last week, is the only female freeskier signed up for all three … Read more
Eileen Gu had to settle for silver in the women’s slopestyle at the Winter Olympics on Monday after Mathilde Gremaud became the first woman to perform a trick known as the nose butter double cork 1260. Chinese superstar Gu was hoping to overturn the result from Beijing four years ago when Swiss rival Gremaud denied … Read more