This Chinese Olympic Traitor Failed to Win Gold in Italy

Amy Curtis | February 17, 2026 9:30 AM

Eileen Gu, the San Francisco native who decided to represent the Chinese communists at this year's Winter Olympic Game in Italy, will not be taking home the gold for the Chi-Coms this year. Gu came up short on the freeski big air competition, falling behind Canada's Megan Oldham.

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Eileen Gu wasn’t able to defend her gold medal.
She settled for silver in the Olympic women’s freeski big air competition, with Megan Oldham taking home the gold.
Gu, the American-born star who competes for China, recorded a score of 90.00 on her first run, which was tied for third-highest behind Austria’s Lara Wolf and Canada’s Oldham.
She did not cleanly grab the tail of her ski midair nor neatly stick her landing on her second run and got a score of 61.25, momentarily knocking her out of a medal spot.
It meant defending her gold medal in the event came down to her third run.
Each competitor got three runs, with the highest two scores getting combined for an overall total score.
And on that third and final run, she recorded a score of 89.00 — and combined with her first run, an aggregate score of 179.00 — to push her to second behind Oldham.

Earlier, Gu was named the grand marshal of San Francisco's Lunar New Year Parade, and she represented China at the 2022 Olympics, where she won three medals, including gold and silver. Gu had competed for the United States until 2019, when she decided instead to be a traitor to America and represent China in the games.

It tracks that San Francisco, which only bothered to clean up its streets when the Chi-Coms came to town, would honor Gu.