Eileen Gu in tears after defending her Olympic halfpipe title, learning of her grandmother’s death

By taking chances, Eileen Gu is building a sport. Not long after the victory gave her a record-breaking third Olympic gold medal in freeskiing, Gu learned her grandmother, Guozhen Feng, had died. “She was a steam ship,” Gu said.

By PAT GRAHAM and EDDIE PELLS