Eileen Gu’s exchange with reporter over medals at Winter Olympics goes viral
Chinese superstar responds to reporter who asked whether she saw her situation after two events as ‘two silvers gained or two golds lost’
Eileen Gu is one of the biggest names at the Milano Cortina Olympics, as is obvious from how her answer to an AFP reporter’s question about her performance at the Winter Games has gone viral.
China’s freeski superstar came to Italy as one of the few athletes whose name transcends winter sports.
Gu, 22, was the darling of the Beijing Games on home soil four years ago, where she won two gold medals and a silver, making her the first freestyle skier to collect three medals at a single Winter Olympics.
She came to Livigno, in the Italian Alps, seeking to sweep the board but has so far missed out on gold, winning silvers in slopestyle and big air.
Following her second-placed finish in the big air event on Monday, AFP asked her in a press conference whether she considered it “two silvers gained or two golds lost”.
Gu laughed off the question, pointing out that she was now the most decorated woman in Olympic freestyle skiing history.