Gu’s three-medal haul in Beijing was unprecedented in Olympic Freestyle Skiing, as in one fell swoop she became the first freestyle skier or freeskier to win three medals in one Games, as well as putting herself into a tie atop the all-time individual Olympic medal table for those disciplines with her three podiums there in Beijing.
When you throw in her historic 2021/22 World Cup season, in which Gu became the first athlete to win every halfpipe competition of the season en route to claiming the halfpipe crystal globe and then the freeski overall globe by season’s end, a Dew Tour halfpipe win, and podiums in all three of the freeski events spread across various non-Olympic events, and you’ve got perhaps the most dominant individual season in freeski competition history.
