Eileen Gu: At Home On Every Mountain

The Freestyle Skiing Champion Who Chose China, Defied Critics, and Made Olympic History

De: Jonathan Brockman

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

She was born in San Francisco. She competes for China. She is the most decorated freestyle skier in Olympic history. And she refuses to choose.

In February 2022, eighteen-year-old Eileen Gu stood at the top of a ski jump at the Beijing Olympics and landed a trick she had never performed in competition -- a double cork 1620 that won her Olympic gold and made her the most famous athlete in China. Four years later, at the Milano Cortina Games, she won three more medals, becoming the most decorated freeskier in history. Minutes after her final gold, she learned that her grandmother had died.

At Home on Every Mountain tells the full story of Eileen Gu -- from the house in San Francisco where three generations of Chinese women raised a champion, to the halfpipe in the Italian Alps where that champion kept a promise to be brave. It is the story of a grandmother who was a steamship, a mother who was a strategist, and a daughter who inherited from both of them the engine to fly.

It is also the story of what happens when a biracial woman refuses to fit in a box. When she competes for her mother's country and lives in her father's. When she speaks two languages, holds two identities, and tells the world that choosing both is not a betrayal of either.

The controversy was enormous. The skiing was better.