Eileen Gu's interaction with reporter over winning silver instead of gold goes viral: ‘Ridiculous perspective’

American-born Team China Olympic skier Eileen continues to halfway herself arsenic the astir polarizing taxable of the Milan Cortina Winter Games. 

An enactment Tuesday with a newsman went viral aft Gu responded to a question astir her winning 2 metallic medals alternatively of golden truthful acold this Olympics, suggesting the question came from a "ridiculous perspective."

Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China poses for photos aft the awarding ceremonial of the freestyle skiing women's freeski large aerial lawsuit astatine the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games successful Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026. (Wang Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

"I’m the astir decorated pistillate freeskier successful history. I deliberation that’s an reply successful and of itself," Gu said erstwhile asked if she saw her 2 medals arsenic "silvers earned" oregon "golds lost."

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"How bash I accidental this? Winning a medal astatine the Olympics is simply a life-changing acquisition for each athlete. Doing it 5 times is exponentially harder due to the fact that each medal is arsenic hard for me, but everybody else’s expectations rise, right? 

"The 2 medals mislaid situation, to beryllium rather frank with you, I deliberation is benignant of a ridiculous position to take. I’m showcasing my champion skiing. I’m doing things that rather virtually person ne'er been done before. So, I deliberation that is much than bully enough, but convey you."

Gu's reply drew mixed reactions connected societal media aft she had already been a people of immense planetary disapproval for her determination to correspond China implicit her location country, the U.S.

Gu has won 2 metallic medals successful freestyle skiing successful Milan Cortina successful the slopestyle and large aerial events. She has 1 last event, the halfpipe, remaining Saturday and has an accidental to adhd to her total.

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Eileen Gu of China reacts aft her archetypal leap successful the women's freestyle skiing large aerial qualification during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games astatine Livigno Snow Park Feb. 14, 2026. (Joe Camporeale/Imagn Images)

Gu has been the taxable of planetary disapproval since her determination to correspond China dating backmost to the archetypal determination successful 2019 and her archetypal Winter Olympics successful Beijing successful 2022. This year, that disapproval has ramped up arsenic she has won 2 metallic medals and adjacent responded to a question astir President Donald Trump criticizing U.S. Olympian Hunter Hess for being captious of the existent authorities of America.

"I’m atrocious that the header that is eclipsing the Olympics has to beryllium thing truthful unrelated to the tone of the Games. It truly runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be," Gu told reporters Monday.

"The full constituent of athletics is to bring radical together. … One of the precise fewer communal languages, that of the quality body, that of the quality spirit, the competitory spirit, the capableness to interruption not lone records, but particularly successful our sport, virtually the quality limit. How fantastic is that?"

Gu besides claimed she had been "caught successful the crossfire" herself. 

"As idiosyncratic who has got caught successful the crossfire before, I consciousness atrocious for the athletes," Gu said. "I anticipation that they tin skis to their precise best."

Vice President JD Vance weighed successful connected the contention surrounding Gu successful an interrogation Tuesday connected Fox News' "The Story With Martha MacCallum."

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Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China attends the awarding ceremonial for the freestyle skiing women's freeski large aerial lawsuit astatine the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games successful Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026.  (Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

"I surely deliberation that idiosyncratic who grew up successful the United States of America who benefited from our acquisition system, from the freedoms and liberties that makes this state a large place, I would anticipation they privation to vie with the United States of America," Vance said.

"So, I'm going to basal for American athletes. I deliberation portion of that is radical who place themselves arsenic Americans. That's who I'm rooting for successful this Olympics."

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