Skier Eileen Gu Navigates the Road to the Beijing Olympics

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Free-skier Eileen Gu navigates the road to the Winter Olympics in Beijing

. Professionally, she is part of the star-studded Red Bull team and in December 2021 became the first woman to land a double-cork 1440 in competition on her way to big-air gold at the World Cup in Colorado.

Naturally, you don’t soar to such heights without picking up some bruises. Speaking to TIME in two interviews last spring and summer, she revealed how her decision, at the age of 15, to switch from Team USA to Team China at the Olympics elicited savage trolling that escalated into death threats. Violence against Asian Americans gave strong impetus to the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which Biden signed last May, decrying “the ugly poison that has long haunted and plagued our nation.” Yet his Administration continues to be tough on Beijing, and just five days later introduced the Ensuring American Global Leadership and Engagement Act, which aims to confront China in technology, trade and human rights. In September 2021, the U.S., U.K.

“It’s really easy to use sport as a form of unity and communication and friendship, because everybody is working toward a common goal,” she said. “Because sport really is blind to race, gender, religion and nationality; it’s all just about pushing the human limit.” Gu recalls a time when she could go skiing in China and recognize the faces of everyone around her, because so few locals had taken up the sport. “Now, there’s thousands of people [skiing], and that’s amazing. It’s a huge opportunity to spread the sport that I love and that brings me so much joy.”

Following the U.S. move, the No Beijing 2022 coalition of over 250 protest groups—representing exiled Tibetans, Uighur refugees, dissident Hongkongers, Southern Mongolians, Taiwanese and members of other disaffected minorities—released a joint statement that praised the U.S. for setting “an example for other governments to follow.” On Dec.

But for IOC president Thomas Bach, such actions achieve little by themselves. Speaking to TIME before the Tokyo Summer Games, he argued that “It was not sport alone” that helped dismantle racial segregation and oppression in South Africa. “You had an economic boycott, cultural boycott, with regard to apartheid.”

 

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