{"id":286961,"date":"2026-02-12T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286961\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:13:09","slug":"eileen-gu-has-winter-olympics-gold-in-sight-rival-mathilde-gremaud-stands-in-her-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/286961\/","title":{"rendered":"Eileen Gu has Winter Olympics gold in sight \u2013 rival Mathilde Gremaud stands in her way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Eileen Gu is looking to defend her big air crown at the Winter Olympics this Sunday, but she will once again have to outdo the Swiss skier who denied her a gold medal for the second consecutive Games earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Chinese freestyle skiing star finished second to Mathilde Gremaud of Switzerland in the women\u2019s slopestyle, a repeat of the result at the last Games.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But both athletes were very positive after the event.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThat was definitely the best slopestyle run I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d Gu said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Gremaud said \u201cit\u2019s the best one I\u2019ve ever done in my life, yes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Gu won gold medals in big air and half-pipe, with Gremaud claiming bronze in big air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eileen Gu is looking to defend her big air crown at the Winter Olympics this Sunday, but she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[142331,91197,114244,1657,54,146683,3448,146681,85,46,146682,6662,6661,4674,105,3950,208,113970],"class_list":["post-286961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aspen","tag-beijing-winter-olympics","tag-big-air","tag-china","tag-donald-trump","tag-eileen-gu","tag-hong-kong","tag-hunter-hess","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mathilde-gremaud","tag-milan","tag-olympics","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-us","tag-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}