Acrobatic skier Eileen Gu has made history.
Guová trains in the Austrian Stubai and decided to diversify her preparation for the top in the form of the Olympic Games with an attempt to enter the record book. And it worked. She was the first woman in history to make the Double Cork 1440 ultra-heavy jump.
The 18-year-old skier is already a two-time world champion from this year, she has won the halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines. In the first-mentioned discipline, she also dominated the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne 2020 and added gold from the big air and silver from the slopestyle.
Guo did not go down in history for the first time this year, with her success at the X Games, where she won gold in superpipe and slopestyle and bronze in big air, became the first Chinese champion, and also the first woman to win medals in all three disciplines. which she started. No newcomer has succeeded in this prestigious event in the 25-year history.
The skier is of mixed descent, her father is American and her mother is Chinese, Guová decided to represent her mother’s country and thus taste the homely atmosphere at the Beijing Olympics next year.
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