Why Eileen Gu competes for China in skiing at Olympics and not U.S. after controversy originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. One of the most well-known athletes at the 2026 Winter Olympics is a ski star competing for China.

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — That ever-growing bench of Japanese snowboarders runs deep. Jumps very high, too. The country that has steadily been asserting mastery over the halfpipe took that show to the Winter Olympics big air contest Saturday night,