There's a joke circulating on Chinese American social media that goes something like: "You told us to go back to China, and Eileen Gu finally did." This claps back at the blatantly racist rhetoric ...

With her medal-winning freeskiing and can-do spirit, American-born Chinese free skier Eileen Gu has dominated the media’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics. But that global fascination has also been ...

In a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on August 16, 2025, Olympic and X Games medalist and skier Eileen Gu said she was injured after an accident while training in New Zealand. The ...

BEIJING, China — U.S.-born athletes have taken center stage at the Winter Olympics in Beijing — for the host country, that is, generating scrutiny of nationality-switching. But the likes of Gu and ...

Freeskier Eileen Gu of China, one of the most prominent athletes of the Beijing Games, is now two-time Olympic champion Eileen Gu. In the final women's freeski event of the Olympics, Gu, who is one of ...

BEIJING — In one Winter Olympics sweep, Eileen Gu has solidified her place as one of the biggest sports stars in the world, not to mention one of the most politically divisive. The California native ...

I’ve watched the reactions to Eileen Gu, the Chinese American athlete who decided to ski for China this Olympics, with dismay and disgust. It seems we can’t let an Olympics pass without wondering ...

In Beijing, Eileen Gu is called the Snow Princess. Her fresh face and highlighted tresses grace billboards and glossy ads for Louis Vuitton and Tiffany. Her gold medal performance in the Winter ...

For followers of freestyle skiing and fashion alike, the buzz surrounding Winter Olympian Eileen Gu at this year’s Games has come as little surprise. The 18-year-old’s gold medal performance in the ...