Eileen Gu: US freestyle skier representing China at the Winter Olympics 2026

Eileen Gu’s real reason for choosing China over the USA at the Olympics

Chinese megastar skier Eileen Gu recently revealed the true reason why she picked to represent China over the USA at the Olympics.

Gen Z Olympic skier Eileen Gu is balancing school, sports and brand deals—she’s already worth over $20 million and earns more than Naomi Osaka

At only 22 years old, Eileen Gu is one of the best freestyle skiers in the world—amassing four Olympic medals to her name. She’s also a student at Stanford University studying international relations, currently on leave for the 2026 Milan–Cortina Olympic Games. But instead of waiting to have a degree to her name to get her career off the ground, she’s dived in head-first. Gu pulled in $23.1 million last year alone, according to Forbes, ranking h…

Eileen Gu Is The Poster Child For The Post-Nationalist Olympics

The American skier enjoys all the benefits of being an American, born and raised, but competes for the communist dictatorship of China.

Eileen Gu ’26 wins Olympic silver with more events to come

The Milan-Cortina Olympic campaign for Eileen Gu ’26 began the same way her 2022 Beijing breakthrough did: on a slopestyle podium with another silver medal, making her the first Stanford athlete to earn a medal in the 2026 Olympics. Gu, an American-born freeskier who competes for her mother’s homeland of China, finished second on Monday in the women’s slopestyle final, just 0.38 points behind Switzerland’s defending gold-medalist Mathilde Gremau…

Born in America, Trained in America, Sold Out to Commie China: NBC Can't Stop Simping for Eileen Gu

Controversy over Eileen Gu, an American-trained athlete competing for China, and NBC's coverage.

Eileen Gu speaks up for Olympic spirits after US president's slams on athlete amid US political division

Eileen Gu, the two-time Olympic gold medalist competing for Team China, said Monday that the spillover of US domestic political issues into the Games