Eileen Gu

Gu's decision was immediately deemed a betrayal by some Chinese social media users, just months after she won several Olympic medals for China.

"Salt Lake specifically wants to become a global destination for athletes everywhere to come train there and they want to incorporate 15 new countries into the Winter Olympics," she told the outlet. Gu was a sensation in China during the Beijing Olympics — and not just because she helped the country win two golds and one silver medal. Born in San Francisco to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu skirted questions during the Games over whether she had renounced her American citizenship to do so.

NEW YORK — China's United States (US)-born double gold medallist Eileen Gu said Tuesday (June 7) that she will be an ambassador for Salt Lake City's Winter ...

and so I'm really honoured to be a part of the whole thing." Advertisement winter sport to connect people," she said during an interview at a Time magazine event in New York. Advertisement But the 18-year-old, who won two golds and a silver, also drew scrutiny over her nationality. Advertisement

The California-born skiing sensation, who competed for China at the Beijing Winter Olympics, says she's American when stateside and Chinese when in China, ...

The International Olympic Committee is expected to announce the 2030 Winter Game's host in May 2023. Gu is expected to begin college at Stanford this fall. Gu's name has not appeared on any of the lists to date, including the latest dated April 20. The teenager is caught between two rival polities, both of which readily latch on to opportunities to question her loyalty. "I am actually an ambassador for the Salt Lake City 2030 Olympic bid," Gu said when asked about the prospect of competing for Team USA in the future. "No, I don't have any regrets," she told the magazine's Sean Gregory in New York.

Chinese Gold Medal-winning freestyle skier Eileen Gu has signed on to work for Salt Lake City's bid for the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics.

More than 220 million people so far "responded to a hashtag, with comments overwhelmingly in support of the teenager's decision to side with the Salt Lake City bid." SBJ I Factor, presented by Allied Sports, features an interview with NFL CRO and Executive VP Renie Anderson, one of the most connected leaders in the sports business. FAN SUPPORT: In Hong Kong, Josh Ball writes a "growing chorus" of Gu fans have "taken to Weibo to show support [for] her decision to serve as an ambassador for the US bid." Her move to work for the U.S. bid "could eventually damage her popularity in China," particularly in a time of "heightened geopolitical tensions between the two countries" ( AP, 6/8). Chinese Gold Medal-winning freestyle skier Eileen Gu has "signed on to work for Salt Lake City's bid for the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics," according to Stephen Wade of the AP. Bid committee spokesperson Tom Kelly confirmed Gu's participation as an "athlete representative." At the Time100 Summit in Salt Lake City, Gu called herself an "ambassador." The 18-year-old Gu was born in the U.S. to a Chinese mother, but competed for China at the Beijing Games. Gu said skiing and her position with the bid committee was a "beautiful example of globalism."

China's Olympic skiing champion Eileen Gu has been named as an ambassador for the United States bid to stage the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake ...

'Because of you, I feel like I am better as a person,'" she said, per Time. "It’s in the US, it’s in Canada, it’s in Europe. Salt Lake City is bidding to host the 2030 Winter Olympics against Sapporo in Japan, Vancouver in Canada and a Pyrenees-Barcelona bid emanating from Spain. Salt Lake City staged the Winter Olympics in 2002 and is one of four locations seeking to stage the 2030 edition - although the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games has left the door open to alternatively being the 2034 host. The 18-year-old was arguably the face of the Games and her achievements were seized upon in China, with President Xi Jinping mentioning Gu by name in a speech in April to commemorate the country’s hosting of the Olympics and Paralympics. China's Olympic skiing champion Eileen Gu has been named as an ambassador for the United States bid to stage the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Eileen Gu, the California-born athlete who competed for China at the recent Beijing Olympics, has signed on to work for Salt Lake City's Winter Games bid.

He was referring to Gu being seen a few times during the Olympics enjoying a Chinese dumpling. The 18-year-old Gu was born in the United States to a Chinese mother. Kelly said Gu would not travel next week to Lausanne, Switzerland, with a delegation from Salt Lake City to meet IOC officials. The IOC has lined up the Summer Olympics for Paris in 2024, Los Angeles in 2028 and Brisbane, Australia, in 2032. To the non-Chinese media, she often offered unclear answers. Tom Kelly, a spokesman for the bid committee, confirmed Gu's participation to The Associated Press as an "athlete representative."

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winter sport to connect people," she said during an interview at a Time magazine event in New York. Gu also said that she did not regret swapping allegiances ahead of the Beijing Games. But the 18-year-old, who won two golds and a silver, also drew scrutiny over her nationality.