BEIJING | Xinhua | As the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics opened Friday night, 15-year-old Chen Keyu, a rising star on China’s national ice hockey team, sat glued to her screen in Shenzhen, tracking every shift of the hockey competitions in Italy.

Eileen Gu and Mathilde Gremaud on the podium after the women's slopestyle final Hannah Peters / LIVIGNO, Italy — Eileen Gu’s pursuit of history at these Winter Olympics may have ended at the first hurdle,

The 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics men’s ice hockey tournament starts in just two days. Although Canada and the United States are considered to be the favorites, there are five really good teams, and even 8 or 10 who could

The San Francisco-born skier isn’t new to the Olympics, and neither are questions about the country she competes for.

The Olympic slopestyle war between Mathilde Gremaud and Eileen Gu rages on. The Swiss skier successfully defended her gold in the women’s slopestyle final on Monday morning and held off the Gu, who was born in America but competes for China,

WASHINGTON — Three-time Olympic medalist Eileen Gu is back for the Milan Cortana Winter Games, and once again she is representing China instead of the United States — the country where she was born.

Chinese American Freestyle Skier Eileen Gu was born in San Francisco and raised by her mom and grandma. She doesn't talk about her Harvard-educated dad, though.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The nickname for the trick is “disaster.” Freeskiing star Eileen Gu saw it as something other than that. Because Gu landed that trick once at the top of the supersized rails portion of the Olympic slopestyle course Monday,

While the U.S. is on top of the overall Olympic medal count, it is not the country that dominates winter sports like the 2026 Milano Cortina Games in Italy.