Chinese skier Eileen Gu lands world’s first double cork 1440 in Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics training
- US-born teenager shares video of history making trick on Instagram with fellow slope stars offering congratulations
- Ski sensation set to be face of coming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, where she is gold medal hope for China
In the video – which she captioned “lil worlds first today” – the 18-year-old lands a freeski double cork 1440 while training at the Stubai Glacier in Austria ahead of this year’s ski season.
As per her claim, it is believed that she is the first woman to land the trick, with a number of her fellow skiers congratulating the teenager on the feat.
Sarah Hoefflin, the freestyle ski slopestyle gold medallist at the last Winter Games in Pyeongchang in 2018, wrote “Yeewwww congrats”.
Anna Gasser, the Snowboard Big Air Olympic champion also commented on Gu’s post.
Gu has consistently made headlines since the summer of 2019 when she confirmed that she would compete for China rather than the US, where she was born to an American father and Chinese mother.