Eileen Gu, Olympic and Gold Medal
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Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu will be leaving the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics with at least two silver medals. She could add one more medal to her total if she can qualify for Saturday's women's skiing halfpipe final.
The 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina have provided all kinds of storylines. Currently, the world’s best winter sport athletes are competing in Italy with gold medals on the line. Gifted and talented individuals have been busy flying through the air with snowboards and skis attached to their feet,
China's Xu Mengtao claimed the second Olympic gold of her career after landing a clean back full-full-full, one of the most difficult tricks in women's aerials.
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At halfpipe, neither US-born Olympic favorite competes for America. Eileen Gu takes the heat
LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The two best bets to win the gold medal in women's halfpipe skiing at the Winter Olympics were born in the United States. Zoe Atkin competes for Britain and hardly anyone raises a fuss about it.
The San Francisco-born skier isn’t new to the Olympics, and neither are questions about the country she competes for.
China's Ning Zhongyan set an Olympic record on his way to gold in the men's speed skating over 1,500 metres on Thursday, denying United States' Jordan Stolz a hat-trick of individual gold medals at the Milan/Cortina Winter Games.
MILAN (AP) — Jordan Stolz was rather surprised that his Olympic gold medal streak ended Thursday. So was his coach. And so, too, was Ning Zhongyan of China, the man who beat Stolz in speedskating's 1,
Gu, 22, is a freestyle skiing star who has won two silver medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, adding to three medals won in Beijing in 2022.
The child actor-turned-snowboard prodigy won gold in the men's snowboard slopestyle, while Team USA's Jake Canter took bronze.
Liu and her father, who had protested the Chinese government after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, were targeted in an alleged spying scheme months before Liu competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Eileen Gu celebrated a gold medal win that made her the most decorated Olympic freestyle skier in history on Sunday and then learned the heartbreaking news that her grandmother had died.