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Winter Olympics live updates: Eileen Gu is golden in women's halfpipe for her third medal in Beijing

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Chinese-American Eileen Gu faced the pressure to deliver a third medal of the 2022 Beijing Olympics and delivered in dominating fashion on Friday.

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Gu soared to freeskiing gold in the women's halfpipe, giving her medals in all three of her events, and making her one of the biggest stars of these Olympics.

Gu won gold in big air’s Olympic debut last week and silver in freeski slopestyle.