The Milan-Cortina Olympic campaign for Eileen Gu ’26 began the same way her 2022 Beijing breakthrough did: on a slopestyle podium with another silver medal, making her the first Stanford athlete to earn a medal in the 2026 Olympics. Gu, an American-born freeskier who competes for her mother’s homeland of China, finished second on Monday in the women’s slopestyle final, just 0.38 points behind Switzerland’s defending gold-medalist Mathilde...
