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Eileen GU, the US -born skier who chose to represent China in the 2022 Olympics, was reportedly involved in a training accident in New Zealand last week.
Facilitates at Cardrona Alpine Resort in Cardrona, South China Morning Post told GU that GU seemed to suffer serious injuries and should be taken to the hospital on a stretcher.
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Eileen GU (CHN) celebrates the gold medal after competing in Freestyle Skiing Women’s Halfpipe Final under Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022 in Genting Snow Park. (Danielle Parhizkaran/USA Today Sports)
GU reportedly provided a health update in his Weibo account.
“Unfortunately, a very terrible accident happened yesterday because of human mistakes,” she wrote. “Hopefully I’ll be back on the snow soon, but I’m still waiting for the final confirmation of the expert team.
“I have to concentrate fully during exercise, especially when I am preparing to start as it is very dangerous to be interrupted. I also have to focus on depicting and imagining the movements while on the cable car. To save time I do not have lunch breaks and try to use the bathroom as little as possible.
GU won two gold medals and a silver at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.
Eileen GU poses for a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower before the opening ceremony for Paris 2024 -Olympic summer matches. (James Lang/USA Today Sports)
She triggered controversy on the Olympic Scene when she decided to compete for China for Team USA. Her father is American, but her mother is a first generation of Chinese immigrant.
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During the games, she avoided questions about her citizenship after winning gold. Chinese state media has claimed that GU became a Chinese citizen at the age of 15, according to Reuters.
The government does not allow double citizenship, which means that the native in California would have had to give up its US citizenship to do so.
GU considered she spent at least a quarter of her life in China. Her story of origin begins, as she tells it, with the time she struck the idea of China’s first Slopestyle -Ski event at the age of 9 -and won.
Eileen Gu Gold medal celebrates in Beijing 2022 Olympic winter matches at Genting Snow Park. (Jack Gruber/USA Today Sports)
She said in 2024 that she was planning to represent China again in the 2026 Olympics.
