On Friday, #EileenGu completed the goal she had set for the Winter Olympics: to win three medals for #China. nytimes.com/2022/02/17/spo…
"With a large crowd of Chinese fans cheering her every trick, she easily scored a 95.25 on her second run, putting her far above the rest of the field. By the time she was up for her third run, she had already won gold."
"Gu was going to try a final run with a difficult cork 10, to show off a bit, but her teammate Kexin Zhang fell and hit her head, then struggled to get up before skiing down the halfpipe. That made Gu reconsider a risky run."
“It kind of woke me up, and I’ve never taken a victory lap before in my entire life, so I felt like, ‘You know what, last event at the Olympics, it feels like I finally deserve it,’” she said. “I’m really happy.”
Gu knows the past two weeks will change her life forever.
“It has been two straight weeks of the most intense highs and lows I’ve ever experienced in my life,” she said.
“It has been two straight weeks of the most intense highs and lows I’ve ever experienced in my life,” she said.
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