1. Eileen Gu is the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics.
17 Facts About Eileen Gu
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Eileen Gu was born on September 3,2003, in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Eileen Gu's mother, Yan Gu, is a first-generation Chinese immigrant.
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Eileen Gu moved to the Bay Area to attend Stanford University Graduate School of Business and worked in finance after earning her MBA.
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Eileen Gu joined the Northstar California Resort free-ski team at eight, and won her first national championship at nine.
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Eileen Gu entered the freshman class in 2022, the same year she was presented as a debutante at Le Bal des debutantes in Paris.
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Eileen Gu wrote "Pain is Temporary" on her hand, and showed it to the cameras during the finals.
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Eileen Gu competed without poles for the first time due to a broken hand, having fractured a finger and tearing the UCL in her thumb.
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Eileen Gu was the second woman to land the trick and the first woman to land a left-turn 1620; Tess Ledeux first successfully completed a double cork 1620 on 21 January 2022, at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado, Gu landed it again in her first run of the big air final at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Eileen Gu won a second gold medal in the women's freeski halfpipe competition, becoming the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a Winter Olympics.
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Eileen Gu was awarded the Best Breakthrough Athlete and Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Awards at the 2022 ESPY Awards.
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Eileen Gu won a second crystal globe during the same season, placing first in park and pike overall.
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Eileen Gu began competing for China in June 2019 after requesting a change of nation with the International Ski Federation.
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Eileen Gu's goal was to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Eileen Gu has appeared on the covers of magazines such as the Chinese editions of Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Marie Claire, V, L'Officiel, and Vogue.
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Eileen Gu is a Red Bull-sponsored athlete, a founding member of Victoria's Secret's VS Collective, and has an endorsement deal with Porsche.
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Eileen Gu has described her own experience with anti-Asian racism, which included a man screaming obscenities about "Asians infecting America" with COVID-19 while she was shopping with her grandmother.