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Olympian Eileen Gu ruffles US skiers with decision to compete for China She could be America’s next Olympic darling — a stunning 18-year-old skier who signed with Victoria’s Secret and plans to attend Stanford after she vies for gold in Beijing. But Eileen Gu won’t be competing for the US Instead, in a move that’s baffled members of the American skiing community, San Francisco-born and -bred Gu has joined Team China. “I have decided to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics,” Gu announced in a 2019 tweet, months after she earned her first World Cup win in Italy at 15 “She became the athlete she is because she grew up in the United States, where she had access to premier training grounds and coaching that, as a female, she might not have had in China,” Hudak told The Post. “I think she would be a different skier if she grew up in China. https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/olympian-eileen-gu-competing-for-china-is-ruffling-us-skiers/
