Gu, the reigning Olympic champion, needed a big score on her third and final run to vault into a medal position -- and she delivered. The 22-year-old put up an 89.0, giving her a total score of 179.0.

The 2026 Winter Olympics are under way in Italy, and one of the biggest names in freestyle skiing is Eileen Gu. Just 22 years old, Gu has a unique backstory in terms of the country she represents at ...

American-born Team China Olympic skier Eileen Gu came under immense scrutiny on social media this week after making comments about President Donald Trump's recent criticism of U.S. Olympian Hunter ...

Eileen Gu said she felt as though she were skiing “with the weight of two countries on my shoulders” after again being beaten to Winter Olympics gold in the women’s slopestyle by Mathilde Gremaud. The ...

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The nickname for the trick is “disaster.” Freeskiing star Eileen Gu saw it as something other than that. Because Gu landed that trick once at the top of the supersized rails ...

The Olympic slopestyle war between Mathilde Gremaud and Eileen Gu rages on. The Swiss skier successfully defended her gold in the women’s slopestyle final on Monday morning and held off Gu, who was ...

They start skiing down the mountain like any other downhiller. But then they’re going backward. And scooting along metal rails planted in the snow. And then twirling and spinning impossibly off a ramp ...

Eileen Gu and Mathilde Gremaud on the podium after the women's slopestyle final Hannah Peters / Getty Images LIVIGNO, Italy — Eileen Gu’s pursuit of history at these Winter Olympics may have ended at ...

When not risking her neck performing acrobatic tricks on skis, Eileen Gu loves to strut down runways and pose for magazine covers as a model. So, it was no surprise she wore the most fashionable ski ...

Eileen Gu is the world's most dominant women's freestyle skier, and she's certainly compensated as such with her 2025 earnings reaching a reported $23.1 million. Only a fraction of those earnings came ...