California-born Eileen Gu seized Freeski gold for as she performed her first 1620 of her career on her final jump, with sports fans in the country temporarily crashing the social media platform Weibo as they rushed online to celebrate her win. Gu, nicknamed the 'Snow Princess', amassed an army of cynics when she spurned to represent China at the Games - but she told critics after her win: 'I'm just as American as I am Chinese'. The 18-year-old, who was born in San Francisco to an American father and Chinese mother, knew she had to perform the 1620 over the 1440 from her earlier jump, to win gold and beat 's Tess Ledeux and Swiss star Mathilde Gremaud to land gold.
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