Eileen Gu Reveals Deeply Personal Writing Ahead of Olympics: "At Last, I Am Home"

Eileen Gu, the 22-year-old freeskier who competes for China, is the overwhelming favorite to win medals in Big Air, Halfpipe, and Slopestyle at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.Gu burst onto the freeskiing scene as a teenager at X Games, won two golds and a silver at the 2022 Beijing Games, became a bona fide supermodel, and is among the top-paid female athletes in the world."Coming into my second Olympics as the same person in many ways, and also changed in some others," writes Gu in an I