Blog: Freestyle Skiing — Rookies and Veterans Team Up to Present ‘Acrobatics on Snow’

Editor’s note: California-born Eileen Gu won a gold medal Tuesday in the women’s freeski big air event, bagging China its third gold in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Gu cranked out her first “1620,” a four-and-a-half-rotation trick, in the final run. As one of the highest-profile sports stars in China, her win drew widespread attention.

Freestyle skiing is known as “acrobatics on snow.”