Eileen Gu, an 18-year-old born in the US, took the gold for China with a daring 1620 trick. The Women's skiing big air gold medallist replied to haters online in an interview:

"Here's the thing, I'm not trying to keep anyone happy. I'm an 18-year-old girl out here living my best life. I'm having a great time. It doesn't really matter if other people are happy or not, because I feel as though I am doing my best, I am enjoying the entire process and I'm using my voice to create as much positive change as I can for the voices who will listen to me, in an area that is personal and relevant to myself."

"And so if other people don't really believe that that's where I'm coming from then that just reflects that they do not have the empathy to empathies with a good heart, perhaps because they don't share the same kind of morals that I do. And in that sense I am not going to waste my time trying to placate people who are one, uneducated, and two, probably are never going to experience the kind of joy and gratitude and just love that I have the great fortune to experience on a daily basis. So yeah, if people don't believe me and if people don't like me then, that's their loss. They're never going to win the Olympics."

"I definitely feel as though I am just as American as I am Chinese. I am American when I am in the US, and I am Chinese when I am in China. And I've been very outspoken about my gratitude to both the US and China for making me the person who I am. I don't feel as though I'm, taking advantage of one or the other, because both have actually been incredibly supportive of me and continue to be supportive of me, because they understand that my mission is to use sport as a force for unity, to use it as a form to foster interconnection between countries and not use it as a divisive force. So that benefits everyone and if you disagree with that then I feel like that's someone else's problem."