Overview
- Eileen Gu captured Olympic halfpipe gold in Livigno with a leading score of 94.75 on the Games’ final day.
- She arrived late to the post-event news conference and said she had just been told her grandmother had died, breaking down in tears.
- Gu said she had promised her grandmother she would be brave rather than promising to win, framing the run as keeping that vow.
- China’s Fanghui Li took silver and Britain’s Zoe Atkin earned bronze in the halfpipe final.
- After silvers in slopestyle and big air earlier in the week, Gu now has three Olympic golds and six medals overall; born in San Francisco, she has represented China since 2019.