Eileen Gu was born in San Francisco in 2003. Chinese media often refers to her as the daughter of a Chinese mother and an American father, sometimes with a mention that he was a Harvard graduate. But there is no public record of Gu’s father. She declined to comment when asked if she...
“This was an incredibly tough decision for me to make,” she wrote in an Instagram post at the time. “I am proud of my heritage, and equally proud of my American upbringings.” A delivery worker rides pasts an advertisement showing Eileen Gu, at a bus stop in Beijing on January ...
Fresh from rocking the Beijing 2022 Olympics, Ailing (Eileen) Gu is already on to her next world-beating, chart-topping adventure. The freeski phenomenon appeared live on Douyin (China's TikTok precursor) with superstar singer and actor Lay Zhang (Zhang Yixing) - formerly of K-Pop megaband...