Eileen Gu: I was ‘physically assaulted’ over controversial China-US Olympics decision

Source: New York Post

American freestyle skier Eileen Gu said she was “physically assaulted,” robbed and received death threats on her college campus, Stanford University, over her controversial 2019 decision to represent her mother’s native China in the Olympics. Gu alleged to The Athletic she was attacked on the street at the age of 15 for her decision to leave the United States and not compete for her home country during the 2022 Beijing Olympics. “Physically assaulted on the street,” Gu said of the alleged incident while in Livigno last week for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.