Check Out a Sneak Peak of Olympic Gold Medalist Eileen Gu’s SI Swimsuit Debut

Eileen Gu burst into the public eye with her success as a freestyle skier. Most people will recognize her for the dominant performance she had at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing where she set records. Gu became the first person to win three freestyle medals in the same Olympics, taking home gold in the big air and halfpipe contests and silver in slopestyle. She is also the youngest medalist in the sport ever. Those performances earned her two awards at the ESPYS in 2022: Best Breakthrough Athlete and Best Female Action Sports Athlete. In a previous interview with CNN, Gu shared, “athletics have enriched [her] life to such a profound degree, not only in terms of [her] physical well-being, but also [her] mental and my spiritual well-being.” Born and raised in San Francisco, California but representing China in the Olympic games, Gu is a trailblazer. For all her athletic achievements, she may be even more successful off the slopes. A student at Stanford University, she studies quantum physics. She is a