And her next mountain to climb is the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Gangwon, South Korea – which begin this Friday – with an eye firmly set on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
Her exploits, both on and off the slopes, led to her recently being named the Global Ambassador for Gangwon 2024.
Gu in action during the women's freestyle skiing freeski big air finals at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Because no matter where you’re from or what sport you’re in, you’re a similar age, you’re [from a] similar background.
But I do notice that people keep their mouth shut around me now, but I think that’s not really fair.
Persons:
Eileen Gu, Gu, stokes, ”, Gu hasn’t, Ben Queenborough, OIS, “ It’s, It’s, “, ’ ”, ” Gu, Richard Heathcote, won’t, there’ll, ’
Organizations:
CNN, Olympic, Beijing, Big Air, Global, Gangwon, CNN Sport, Stanford University, USA, Sports, Reuters, Youth, Deloitte, Getty, Paris Olympics
Locations:
Gangwon, South Korea, Italy, China, Lausanne –, Beijing, Switzerland, Canada