Eileen Gu secures gold medal to end Winter Olympics run

Eileen Gu, the arguable American-born Team China skier, finished her 2026 Winter Olympics tally with a golden medal successful the women’s freeski halfpipe event.

Gu delivered the golden medal connected her last tally of the event. She scored a 94.75 – conscionable 0.75 points amended than her 2nd run. Nobody came adjacent to touching her mark. Her chap Chinese teammate Li Fangui couldn’t bash amended than 93.00. Britain’s Zoe Atkin won the bronze medal with a people of 92.50.

Gu scored a 94.00 connected her 2nd run. The triumph is her 2nd consecutive golden medal successful the halfpipe.

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Gold medalist China's Eileen Gu poses with her medals aft winning the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe last astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

She finished her tally astatine the Milan Cortina Games with 3 full medals – the golden successful the halfpipe lawsuit and silvers successful large aerial and slopestyle. She has six medals connected her resume.

Gu is already the astir decorated freeskier successful the abbreviated past of the Olympics.

"The crushed I emotion the records truthful overmuch is that it’s not astir antheral oregon woman," Gu said. "I’m the astir decorated freeskier of each time, antheral oregon female. … That’s a testament to competitory strength, it’s intelligence strength. It’s being capable to execute nether pressure. It has thing to (do with) if you’re a lad oregon a girl."

Gu has travel nether occurrence for her determination to vie for China implicit the U.S. Vice President JD Vance has been among those captious of the athlete.

The Wall Street Journal reported past week that Gu and Zhu Yi, a chap American-born fig skater who present competes for China, were paid a combined $6.6 cardinal by the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau successful 2025 for "striving for fantabulous results successful qualifying for the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics." In all, the 2 were reportedly paid astir $14 cardinal implicit the past 3 years.

China's Eileen Gu competes during the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe last astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

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Vance weighed successful connected the contention surrounding Gu successful a Tuesday interrogation connected Fox News' "The Story with Martha MacCallum."

"I surely deliberation that idiosyncratic who grew up successful the United States of America who benefited from our acquisition system, from the freedoms and liberties that makes this state a large place, I would anticipation they privation to vie with the United States of America," helium said.

"So, I'm going to basal for American athletes. I deliberation portion of that is radical who place themselves arsenic Americans. That's who I'm rooting for successful this Olympics." 

Gu agreed that she felt similar a "punching container for a definite strand of American politics."

"I do," she said, per USA Today. "So galore athletes vie for a antithetic country. ... People lone person a occupation with maine doing it due to the fact that they benignant of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they conscionable hatred China. So it's not truly astir what they deliberation it's about.

Gold medalist China's Eileen Gu celebrates winning the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe last astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

"And also, due to the fact that I win. Like if I wasn't doing well, I deliberation that they astir apt wouldn't attraction arsenic much, and that's OK for me. People are entitled to their opinions."

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Gu has antecedently said she was "physically assaulted" for her determination to correspond China.

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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