By winning her gold, China's Eileen Gu is the first action-sports athlete to win three medals at the same Olympics. Two were gold and one was silver.
By winning her gold, in a state-of-the-art contest over defending champion Cassie Sharpe, Gu is the first action-sports athlete to win three medals at the same Olympics. Two were gold and one was silver.
Gu’s trip to China was about more than sports. About 30 months ago, she took a chance and made a statement when she decided to wear the colors of her mother’s homeland — China, the host country — instead of those of her native United States.: She did it to inspire girls in China. There was little in the way of winter-sports culture here when she was younger. There certainly is more now.
“It’s amazing, all she has done without resting, dealing with the pressure and just delivering every day,” Tornianen said.A year ago at the Winter X Games, Sharpe fell hard and tore up her left knee. On Friday, for only the second time in her career, she landed two 1080-degree spins in the same run. In a twist that feels like something different than just mere happenstance, the sport’s original star, Burke, and its newest one, Gu, share the same birthday: Sept. 3., Gu spoke about making a wallet out of duct tape for a sixth-grade art project. Across the front, she wrote “Celebrate Sarah,” a tribute to the pioneer who had died in a training accident in 2012.
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