Eileen Gu Out With Knee Injury Eileen Gu, the young superstar skier who won a gold medal in Big Air and Halfpipe at the 2022 Olympics Games in Beijing, was forced to withdraw from X Games 2023 with a significant knee injury. The 19-year-old phenom suffered the injury during a practice run before the competition and will miss an extended period while going through rehab. Related: Eileen […] Industry News Matt Scribner | January 31, 2023 0 Comments
Eileen Gu Wins First Halfpipe Competition Since Gold Medal Run in Beijing [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osPcQPQwho"] Matt Scribner | January 25, 2023 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Eileen Gu Was The 3rd Highest Paid Female Athlete in 2022 Forbes released a list of the highest-paid female athletes in 2022. While you might be forgiven for thinking Alpine legends Lindsey Vonn or Mikaela Shiffrin could have made the list, it was instead Freestyle talent Eileen Gu, who came in at 3rd place with an estimated $ 20.1 million, behind Naomi Osaka in 1st place and Serena Williams in 2nd with […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | January 3, 2023 1 Comment
Freeski Update: FIS Freestyle Season 22/23 Kicks Off This Week With Big Air in Switzerland While eyes of the alpine community are turned to Sölden, Austria, this weekend, just a couple of mountain ranges to the west, in Chur, Switzerland, the Freestylers are kicking off their season with a Big Air event on Friday. The Freestyle category under FIS, the International Ski Federation, consists of six very unique disciplines: Ski/Boarder-Cross Moguls (Duals and Singles) Big Air […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | October 19, 2022 2 Comments
Freeskier Eileen Gu Finished 2nd at San Francisco Half Marathon With No Formal Training View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eileen 🖤🌈🧊🐲 (@eileen_gu_) Eileen Gu finished second in her age group at the San Francisco half marathon last weekend, just 36 hours after signing up and with no formal training. Related: US-Born Chinese Freeskier Eileen Gu on 2022 TIME100 List | Will be an Ambassador for Salt Lake City […] SnowBrains | August 3, 2022 3 Comments
Mixed-Emotions in China, U.S., After American-Born Freeskier Eileen Gu Confirms She Will be Ambassador for Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Bid They love her and they hate her. On Tuesday, American-born double gold medallist Eileen Gu, who competed for China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, announced that she’s going to be an ambassador for Salt Lake City’s Winter Olympic bid for the 2030 or 2034 Games. Chinese and American social media users alike shared both support and disgust for her […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | June 13, 2022 3 Comments
US-Born Chinese Freeskier Eileen Gu on 2022 TIME100 List | Will be an Ambassador for Salt Lake City Olympic Bid US-born Chinese freeskier Eileen Gu is on the 2022 TIME100 list after becoming the youngest freestyle ski champion in Beijing, where she won the gold medal in both big air and halfpipe, and silver in slopestyle. Related: [VIDEO] Eileen Gu World’s First Woman to Stomp Double Cork 14 The 18-year-old Olympic freestyle skiing champion who was born and raised in San […] Industry News SnowBrains | June 9, 2022 2 Comments
[OLYMPICS] San Francisco, CA’s, Eileen Gu Takes Silver For China in Women’s Slopestyle Event 18-year-old Chinese freeskier Eileen Gu took silver in the women’s slopestyle event yesterday after winning the big air event earlier at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Related: [VIDEO] San Francisco, CA’s Eileen Gu Wins Gold in Women’s Big Air With Double Cork 1620 Switzerland’s Mathilde Gremaud took gold and Estonia’s Kelly Sildaru bronze. Gremaud fell on her first run, but […] Olympics SnowBrains | February 15, 2022 3 Comments
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