Beijing 2022: China’s Eileen Gu injured in training fall but says it’s ‘not serious’ as she prepares for Winter Games medal rush
- The Winter Games medal favourite pulled out of the slopestyle competition in Stubai, Austria, where two weeks ago she performed a world’s first double cork 1440
- The 18-year-old hopes to return to competition in Colorado in the first week of December in the run-up to February’s Beijing Olympics
Two weeks after Chinese freeskier Eileen Gu showed off a world’s first freeski double cork 1440, the US-born star was forced to pull out of the slopestyle season opener because of a fall.
Xinhua reported the 18-year-old Beijing 2022 Winter Games medal hope said her injuries “were not serious” and she hoped to return to competition at the next World Cup in the United States.
Gu, who was born in San Francisco to an American father and Chinese mother, has chosen to represent China and is among the favourites for a medal in Beijing.
It was reported that Gu failed to turn up for Friday’s qualification event in Stubai, Austria where earlier this month she became the first female skier to pull off the double cork 1440 during training.
Gu said she was now targeting the Big Air World Cup event in Steamboat, Colorado in the first week of December.
