Nearly two years ago, at age 15, freeski prodigy Eileen Gu Ailing decided to compete for ... in which athletes ski down a slope littered with a variety of obstacles. Both the US and China have ...

She began learning how to ski at age 3 and went professional in ... where she's also known as Gu Ailing. However, she continues to live in the US. In a June 2019 Instagram post, she explained ...

BEIJING — How do you raise the next Gu Ailing? The success of the Chinese ... Gu, known in the Western world as Eileen Gu, won the women’s free ski Big Air event at the Beijing 2022 Winter ...

The New York Times calls Gu, known as Gu Ailing in China, a "dominant skier and a budding supermodel ... And you thought doing death-defying aerial ski tricks was tough. Perhaps that's why the on-snow ...

It is risky for Gu Ailing to be that kind of a vector,” he said. Unlike her gravity-defying ski tricks, Gu’s public persona is low-risk: she supports Black Lives Matter but avoids questions ...

Gold medallist, Gu Ailing Eileen of China celebrates on the ... Alpine Skiing - FIS Ski World Cup - Men's Super G - Kitzbuehel, Austria - January 24, 2020 Former skier Lindsey Vonn attends the ...