{"id":465346,"date":"2026-02-10T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465346\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:19:11","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-fans-blown-away-after-eileen-gu-denied-gold-by-move-never-seen-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/465346\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026: Fans blown away after Eileen Gu denied gold by move never seen before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eileen Gu<\/a> had to settle for silver in the women’s slopestyle at the Winter Olympics<\/a> on Monday after Mathilde Gremaud became the first woman to perform a trick known as the nose butter double cork 1260. Chinese superstar Gu was hoping to overturn the result from Beijing four years<\/a> ago when Swiss rival Gremaud denied her the gold at her home Games.<\/p>\n

But Gu fell at the start of her final run on Monday, allowing Gremaud to complete a victory run draped in the Swiss flag. Gremaud achieved the highest score of 86.96 after pulling off a nose butter double cork 1260.<\/p>\n

\"Mathilde<\/p>\n

Mathilde Gremaud denied Eileen Gu the gold medal after a never-before-seen trick at the Winter Olympics. Image: Getty\/AAP<\/p>\n

It made her the first woman in history to successfully land the trick at the Olympics. The trick involves a skier pressing the tips of their skis on the takeoff to start the spin, before they then perform a double cork 1260 with two distinct off-axis, inverted flips combined with three and a half full, horizontal rotations.<\/p>\n

“Eileen tried to come for me all the time, and I had to really focus on myself so that she couldn’t get to me,” Gremaud said after claiming back-to-back golds. “It was a crazy ride. It was a really tough battle with Eileen. She pushed me to push myself as well for sure.”<\/p>\n

\"Eileen<\/p>\n

Eileen Gu, Mathilde Gremaud and Megan Oldham after the women’s slopestyle final.<\/p>\n

(Getty Images)Eileen Gu rapt despite missing gold medal<\/p>\n

Both of Gremaud’s wins over Gu have been by tiny margins – 0.33 points at the 2022 Games and 0.38 this time around. Gu said: “I think it’s funny that both Olympics we were within half a point of one another. If anything, I think it’s just testament to the growth of women’s freeskiing. It’s so special to be a part of that.<\/p>\n

“The hardest part has been staying consistent all these years. I’ve had a really tough last four years, dealing with injury and time off snow and then some mental stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo being able to compete and really showcase my best skiing \u2013 that was my best slopestyle run that I\u2019ve ever done, and I know that was Mathilde’s best slopestyle that she has ever done as well – to participate in pushing the sport at the level that it’s at, is the highest honour for me.”<\/p>\n

Gu suffered a major concussion last year and experience seizures as a result. But she’s back on the Olympic podium where she belongs. Fans were blown away by Gremaud and Gu’s performances, especially after Gremaud’s historic trick to seal the gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eileen Gu had to settle for silver in the women’s slopestyle at the Winter Olympics on Monday after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,143127,190003,188390,82,74436],"class_list":{"0":"post-465346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-eileen-gu","11":"tag-mathilde-gremaud","12":"tag-megan-oldham","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-winter-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}