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Lars Hamer

Freestyle skier Eileen Gu is back in training and gearing up for her second Olympic cycle, following a disappointing end to the 2024-25 season that saw her miss February’s Asian Winter Games in Harbin because of injury.
The two-time Olympic champion posted a 45-second video on Weibo showcasing her gym routine. The clip ends with Gu performing a cork 720 with a Buick grab on a slope in Austria.
In January, Gu was left badly bruised from a fall during the Winter X Games after winning gold in the Superpipe event.
She then injured herself again in training while preparing for the World Cup. In March, she shared an image on Weibo with her arm in a sling and an X-ray appearing to show a broken collarbone.
And with her time off, the US-born athlete has been taking time to recover both mentally and physically, going on what she called her “first spa day ever”.


“I’d always thought of the need for recovery as indicative of lack – lack of fitness when it came to training volume, lack of mental resilience when it came to metabolising difficult emotions, lack of toughness when it came to taking hard hits,” Gu wrote on Instagram.
“This summer, I’ve been focusing on intentional (high effort?) recovery: prioritising sleep, staying on top of my supplements, and using data from sleep cycles, menstrual cycles and biomarkers to inform how and when I train. AND. I had my first spa day ever.”
Gu is expected to compete in December at this season’s Snow League, where she is also a brand ambassador, at Secret Garden in Beijing.
Next year’s Winter Olympics, Milano Cortina 2026, will run from February 6 to 22.


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US-born athlete posts video on Weibo showcasing her gym routine as she takes time to recover from injury, builds up to next Winter Games


US-born athlete posts video on Weibo showcasing her gym routine as she takes time to recover from injury, builds up to next Winter Games.


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Chinese Olympic champion skier Eileen Gu back into training, enjoys ‘first spa day ever’

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US-born athlete posts video on Weibo showcasing her gym routine as she takes time to recover from injury, builds up to next Winter Games