Nearly two years ago, at age 15, freeski prodigy Eileen Gu Ailing decided to compete for ... in which athletes ski down a slope littered with a variety of obstacles. Both the US and China have ...

BEIJING — How do you raise the next Gu Ailing? The success of the Chinese ... Gu, known in the Western world as Eileen Gu, won the women’s free ski Big Air event at the Beijing 2022 Winter ...

It is risky for Gu Ailing to be that kind of a vector,” he said. Unlike her gravity-defying ski tricks, Gu’s public persona is low-risk: she supports Black Lives Matter but avoids questions ...