We’ll show you how to make that oversized shirt work for you (it’s easy!). ![]() The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games take place from 4-20 February 2022.Two sizes too big? No problem. The only thing I can do is my best on the day and if that is a gold medal then I’ll be super hyped and if that is not then I will still be super hyped because I work hard and a lot of people don’t get to see what happens behind the scenes." So in that sense, it doesn’t make sense to expect the same person to come out on top or on the bottom every single time. Like before I would think 'oh I’m at this competition, I have to prove myself, I have to do well so that other people are impressed and a little girl skier is going to think highly of me or so this person is going to think more highly of me'.īut now I think after X Games and world championships, I realised that I’m taking part in an extreme sport where things are innately unpredictable – the weather, the course, the course format, the number of rails, the size of the jumps, the angle of the whole course, like everything can change. I think it goes back to what I was saying with X Games and world championships this year, is that I think my whole perspective of pressure and outside pressure especially changed. Those are all positive headlines so I have nothing to complain about and I’m happy my name is being portrayed in a positive light and happy that people think highly of me and people look up to me, so that’s all I can really ask for in that sense. ![]() ![]() You mentioned the word pressure before, so how do you feel about some of the things that have been written about you – like ‘Eileen Gu, Chinese sports icon’, ‘Superstar in the making’, ‘Ski prodigy’, ‘Freeski daredevil to become the face of Beijing 2022’? And then doing the same thing at world championships again did a lot for my confidence and taught me a lot about dealing with pressure especially in competing, so I think that was really good experience for skiing. I would say winning X Games, I was the first person in history to win three medals in her rookie year at X Games so that was really insane. "Oh man, this year has definitely been the best year of my life. What has been the highlight of the year so far for you? and replicated that at the world championships this year but you also went to the Met Gala. You had a busy year last year, not just winning two golds in X Games plus a bronze. So in that sense, I’m kind of embracing the unknown because I know I’m never going to be able to experience it unless I just go and do the things, so that’s kind of my game plan right now, I’m just going to go and do the things." ![]() So even if I competed in 100 other set-up events, nothing is really going to compare fully to the Olympics because that experience is so unique, in and of itself, mentally. I think the Olympics are such a special event that there’s the hype surrounding it, there are all the countries coming together, there’s the village, there’s the athlete community, and that is something that can’t really be replicated in any other event. "I mean it goes beyond just your capability to do a trick or your capability to land a run. What do you think would make you 100 per cent ready? So I think it’s really crazy that it’s 100 days away and I’m really excited but I don’t think that anybody going to the Olympics would ever say they are 100 per cent ready." And now that it’s 100 days away it’s suddenly becoming more and more real. "I feel like for so long the Olympics has been this faraway beacon, like it’s this goal that has helped me to motivate myself during training but it’s never really an event that’s actually going to arrive.
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