BEIJING – Californian-born teenage freestyle skier Eileen Gu won gold for China on her Olympic debut at the Beijing Winter Games on Tuesday as Japanese figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu made his eagerly awaited appearance.
Ten gold medals were up for grabs on the fourth full day of competition in the Chinese capital, in sports such as curling, luge, snowboarding, speed skating, biathlon and cross-country skiing.
There was also the men’s super-G alpine skiing, where Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde is one of the favourites and will be eager to make up for the disappointment of finishing fifth in the men’s downhill.
But the day belonged to 18-year-old Gu, who justified all the pre-Games hype by nailing her third and final run in the Big Air to…
