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Eileen Gu, the American skier who chose to represent China at the 2022 Olympic Games, would have been involved in a training accident in New Zealand last week.
The passers -by of Cardrona Alpine Resort in Cardrona told the South China Morning Post that Gu seemed to undergo serious injuries and was to be taken to the hospital on a stretcher.
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Eileen Gu (CHN) celebrates the gold medal after participating in the female free ski ski ski final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Olympic Games at the Genting Snow Park. (Danielle Parhizkaran / USA TODAY SPORTS)
Gu would have given an update on health on his Weibo account.
“Unfortunately, a very terrible accident occurred yesterday due to a human error,” she wrote. “I hope that I will be back on the snow soon, but I am still waiting for the final confirmation of the expert team.
“I have to concentrate entirely during training, especially when I prepare to start, because it is very dangerous to be interrupted. I also have to focus on the photo and the imagination of movements on the cable car. To save time, I have no lunch breaks and I try to use the bathroom as little as possible.
Gu won two gold medals and silver at the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing.
Eileen Gu poses for a photo in front of the Eiffel Tower before the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. (James Lang / USA TODAY SPORTS)
She sparked controversy on the Olympic scene as she decided to compete for China with the United States team. His father is American but his mother is a first generation Chinese immigrant.
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During the matches, she dodged questions about her citizenship after winning gold. Chinese state media said Gui had become a Chinese national at the age of 15, according to Reuters.
The government does not allow double citizenship, which means that the native of California should have abandoned his American citizenship to do this.
Gui estimated that she had spent at least a quarter of her life in China. Her original story, as she tells, begins with the time she presented the idea of the first Slopestyle ski event in China at the age of 9 – and won.
The Eileen Gui gold medalist famous at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at the Genting Snow Park. (Jack Gruber / USA TODAY SPORTS)
She said in 2024 that she planned to represent China again at the 2026 Olympic Games.
