Red Bull Promotes Ski Star Eileen Gu In New Everyday Eileen Series
Eileen Gu's ascent to become a winter-sports star has been nothing short of remarkable the last two years with a new four-part Red Bull TV series documenting the rise of freeskiing’s latest phenomenon from San Francisco high school kid to world glory.
Here is all you need to know:
- In 2021, Gu burst onto the international senior winter sports scene as a 17-year-old and ripped up the record books with a rapid series of breathtaking displays that stunned the freeskiing world.
- After winning two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Gu claimed two golds and a bronze at the 2021 Winter X Games then the same again at the World Championships with her unique talent seeing her excel in big air, halfpipe and slopestyle.
- But just who is the 18-year-old piano playing, horse-back riding, Stanford University attending, professional model who just happens to have a supernatural gift on two skis?
- The series reveals never-before-seen footage from Gu's 2021 season, which will go down in history as she also won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the World Championships despite fracturing a finger and tearing a thumb UCL - forcing her to ski without poles for the first time.
- Watch how she calmly navigated struggling to zip up her jacket and put her boots on to calmly sending flawless slopestyle and halfpipe runs.
- Everyday Eileen takes us on the whirlwind journey from high school life to world domination with model shoots in New York and becoming the first rookie to win three Winter X Games medals in between, while she also became the first woman to land a forward double cork 1440
- Gu - who in 2019 made "the hardest choice I've ever had to make" in representing her mother's birthplace China - could have chosen any number of career paths but chose skiing having started aged three.
- She openly admits she lives four different lives where no second of any day is wasted, however 'being a teenager and doing teenager things' is still very much part of the agenda with a joyous moment shared when she is accepted into the prestigious Stanford University as a legacy applicant.
- One of her many passions and interests away from the snow is modelling with a recent Met Gala appearance and first Vogue cover coming on the back of her being named the new face of lingerie brand Victoria's Secret.
- She adds, "Both have a lot of creative expression, take me out of my comfort zone and require a lot of self-confidence."
Watch all episodes of Everyday Eileen from December 15 HERE.
