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Eileen Gu wishes fans happy Lunar New Year after two golds at Freestyle Skiing World Cup ahead of X Games

by admin | Jan 27, 2023 | Representation, SEW

Eileen Gu heads into this weekend’s X Games in perfect form after winning two half-pipe gold medals on her return to action at the Freestyle Skiing World Cup event in Calgary. China’s double Olympic champion, who also won a silver medal in slopestyle at the Beijing...

Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of Beijing 2022 under wildly contrasting circumstances

by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different. San Francisco native Gu is now a two-time gold-medalist, the Olympics’ youngest ever freestyle skiing champion, a...

Eileen Gu exhausted, happy after three Winter Olympic medals

by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW

U.S.-born freeskier Eileen Gu of China said she’s tired and wants to sleep for days and days yet honored to walk away with the accolades after earning freeski halfpipe gold for her third medal at the 2022 Winter Games. Read More

Team GB’s Kirsty Muir: ‘When I’m in the air, it feels like I’m flying’

by admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW

When you are up in the air, it almost feels like you’re flying,” says Kirsty Muir, the youngest member of Britain’s Winter Olympic team, as she describes the sensation when her body is twirling like a spinning top high above ground. “When you are doing an easier...

Eileen Gu, the part-time teen model and world champion skier tasked with leading China’s Winter Olympics medal push

by admin | Jan 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Two years ago, Eileen Gu Ailing made a decision that may have unknowingly changed the course of freestyle skiing. The then-15-year-old swapped her Team USA colours in favour of representing her mother’s birthplace of China, explaining on Instagram that it was a chance...

What you need to know about Olympic freestyle skier Hannah Soar

by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Hannah Soar is an athlete who had an early start in the sport of freestyle skiing. She hails from Somers, Connecticut but spent weekends with her family in Killington, Vermont, the location of the biggest ski resort in the eastern part of the United States. At 18...

Olivia Giaccio becomes first woman to land moguls cork 10 (video)

by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW

American moguls skier Olivia Giaccio became the first woman to complete a cork 1080 (also known as a “cork 10”) when she landed the trick during Saturday’s World Cup stop in Tremblant, Canada. In a cork 1080, the athlete completes three rotations, one of them...

Meet Eileen Gu, the Chinese-American freeski prodigy rewriting history

by admin | Dec 15, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Eileen Gu is a once-in-a-generation freestyle skier. From becoming the first-ever female to win three medals at her first X Games appearance to modelling for some of the most recognisable brands in the fashion industry and being accepted to study at Stanford...

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