Eileen Gu says she was assaulted at Stanford amid China decision backlash

Freestyle skier Eileen Gu said she was “physically assaulted on the street” while on campus at Sanford University during her time as a student. “The police were called,” the 22-year-old Olympic gold medalist told The Athletic. Gu, who enrolled at Stanford in 2022, linked the incidents to sustained backlash over her 2019 decision to compete for China instead of the U.S..