""I'm the most decorated female freeskier in history, I think that's an answer in and of itself," she began. "How do I say this? Winning a medal at the Olympics is a life-changing experience for every athlete. Doing it five times is exponentially harder because every medal is equally hard for me, but everybody else's expectations rise, right?""
""The 'two medals lost' situation, to be quite frank with you, I think is kind of a ridiculous perspective to take. I'm showcasing my best skiing, I'm doing thing"
Eileen Gu, a 22-year-old Chinese freeskier, became the most decorated athlete in women's freestyle skiing with five Olympic medals, including two new silvers at the Milan Cortina Games. Gu is scheduled to compete in the women's halfpipe qualifier and final and is the only female freeskier competing in slopestyle, halfpipe and big air at the 2026 Olympics. When a reporter asked if the silvers felt like "two golds lost," Gu laughed and forcefully rejected that framing, calling it a ridiculous perspective, emphasizing that each Olympic medal is life-changing and that achieving multiple medals becomes exponentially harder as expectations rise.
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