She has won the most gold medals of any free skier, is the highest earner at the 2026 Winter Olympics and is so much more besides

The superstar skier will have to wait in her pursuit to defend her gold medal in the freestyle skiing halfpipe event.

Olympic skier Eileen Gu — the most decorated freeskier of all time — is giving credit to her late grandma after adding another three medals to her name during the 2026 Winter Olympics. After announcing that her grandma passed away during a Sunday,

Eileen Gu rewrote the history books once again on Sunday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The freestyle skiing star dominated the halfpipe competition on her way to her third medal in this year’s Winter Games.

With six medals in six events over two Winter Olympics. the 22-year-old Eileen Gu is the most-decorated women’s free skier of all time.

American-born skier Eileen Gu fired back at critics over competing for Team China, saying people "just hate China" and target her because she wins.

Eileen Gu won her third medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics, before revealing the heartbreaking loss of her grandmother.

This marked the first time since 2006 that the Winter Games were held in Europe, and the tradition continues: during the closing ceremony, the Olympic flag is passed to the next host country. For 2030,