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.
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The ski star has made history since, becoming China’s first gold medallist at the Winter X Games and the first rookie to win three medals on her debut in a quarter of century.
Gu was world champion in half-pipe and slopestyle this year while she won two golds and a silver at last year’s Youth Winter Olympics.
She is set for the biggest season of her career and is set to be the face of the coming Olympics. The 2021–22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup starts next month with the Beijing Winter Games beginning on February 4.
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Chinese media reported that the 17-year-old Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming, who filmed Gu’s historic trick, and teammate Yang Wenglong have both impressed in training ahead of the Winter Games.
Su landed a world’s first Backslide 1980 Indy Crail last month, also on the slopes of Stubai.
