Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of Beijing 2022 under wildly contrasting circumstances
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Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different.
San Francisco native Gu is now a two-time gold-medalist, the Olympics' youngest ever freestyle skiing champion, a Chinese national hero -- and a budding author.
Born and raised in California, Gu chose to compete for China in 2019 -- where her mother was born -- and became the first freestyler skier in history to win three medals at a Games, winning gold in both the halfpipe and big air events.
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