Eileen Gu: At Home On Every Mountain: The Freestyle Skiing Champion Who Chose China, Defied Critics, and Made Olympic History

She was born in San Francisco and she won her gold medals for China. She is the most decorated freestyle skier in the history of the Olympic Games, and for years the loudest conversation about her had almost nothing to do with skiing. The world kept demanding that she choose a side. She kept refusing.At her first Olympics she landed a trick she had never put down in competition to take a gold medal, then took another, and became, at eighteen, a global star and a geopolitical lightning rod. At her second, she defended her halfpipe title and skied away the most decorated freeskier the sport has produced. In between she was a Stanford student, a fashion-house model, and the daughter and granddaughter of fiercely independent women who had crossed oceans before she ever crossed a finish line.At Home on Every Mountain tells the story of three generations of women that culminates in a champion the world could not categorize, and of the choice that made her a hero in one country and a traitor in another. It takes the controversy seriously without taking a side, because the most interesting thing about Eileen Gu was never which flag she wore. It was that she refused to accept the question.It is a portrait of identity in an age that demands you pick one, and of an athlete who answered, again and again, that she belonged in more than one place at once.This is an independent, unauthorized account, not affiliated with Eileen Gu, her family, or any federation or sponsor depicted. Read more