From Beijing 2008 to Milano-Cortina 2026, China has leveraged elite athletic recruitment and tech sponsorships at the Olympic Games to project global influence.

Eileen Gu competed in three events in the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. She won in all three of them, firmly establishing herself as a true legend in the sport of freestyle skiing.

Gu and Zhu Yi, a fellow American-born athlete who now competes for China, were paid for "striving for excellent results" in ...

US ski star Mikaela Shiffrin ended her Olympic medal drought in style with gold in the slalom on Wednesday as snowboarder Su Yiming won China's first title of the Milan-Cortina Games. Shiffrin is one ...

Eileen Gu has now competed in her second Winter Olympics, adding to her medal total at Milano Cortina 2026. The Chinese ...

Chinese-American Winter Olympics star Eileen Gu is under fire once again, but this time it’s an NFL legend calling out the successful women’s skier. Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason has become ...