Former NFL star says 'insufferable' Eileen Gu was given easy questions throughout Olympics

Add NFL MVP Boomer Esiason to the database of Americans who are not fans of Eileen Gu.

Gu, the Olympic medal-winning skier who was calved and raised successful the United States but has represented China, her mother's autochthonal country, successful planetary competition, has go a taxable of statement again aft her show astatine Milan Cortina. 

The Wall Street Journal reported past week that Gu and Zhu Yi, a chap American-born fig skater who present competes for China, were paid a combined $6.6 cardinal by the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau successful 2025 for "striving for fantabulous results successful qualifying for the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics." In all, the 2 were reportedly paid astir $14 cardinal implicit the past 3 years.

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Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China attends 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.  (Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

That accusation was overmuch to the chagrin of the erstwhile NFL quarterback. 

"The Chinese authorities paid her a batch of money. It’s kinda comic that a communist state would wage a pistillate to beryllium propaganda arsenic a capitalist," Esiason said connected the "Boomer and Gio" amusement Tuesday morning. 

"She’s a precise charismatic pistillate and she’s highly bright. She went to Stanford. But if you perceive to her post-participation interviews, she’s insufferable. She is. It’s hard to perceive to. But past again, it’s an idiosyncratic athletics by an idiosyncratic individual talking astir herself, arsenic opposed to talking astir her teammates oregon the enactment that she receives. If you perceive to her, you're like, ‘what?’"

Gold medalist China's Eileen Gu poses with her medals aft winning the women's freestyle skiing halfpipe last astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Livigno, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026.  (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Esiason and his cohost, Gregg Gianotti, some scoffed astatine the information a newsman praised her for seemingly ever having the close answers to questions.

"They didn’t inquire her astir the communist authorities of China," Esiason quipped. "But the happening astir her is, I volition accidental this, she’s exceptionally bright. She has her answers, she knows however she’s gonna reply things, that’s for sure. But nobody’s truly asked her a pugnacious question."

Gu, already the astir decorated freestyle skier successful Olympic history, took location a golden medal successful her last lawsuit of the Olympics connected Sunday. In the women’s freeski halfpipe event, Gu scored 94.75 – conscionable 0.75 points amended than her 2nd run. Nobody came adjacent to touching her mark.

Silver medalist Eileen Gu of Team People's Republic of China smiles whilst holding her Faction skis and wearing her nationalist emblem during the medal ceremonial for the Women's Freeski Big Air connected time 10 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Livigno Snow Park connected Feb. 16, 2026 successful Livigno, Italy.  (Hannah Peters/Getty Images)

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She finished her tally astatine the Milan Cortina Games with 3 full medals – the golden successful the halfpipe lawsuit and silvers successful large aerial and slopestyle. She has six medals connected her resume.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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