Podcast: China's Ailing (Eileen) Gu / Slovenian ski jumper Ursa Bogataj on surprise win

About this episode

The daily podcast from the Winter Olympics in China today contains two incredible skiers. Ailing (Eileen) Gu is looking to pick up her third Olympic medal of the Beijing 2022 Games in the women's freeski halfpipe. The Chinese star explains how she has coped mentally with the pressure in the past. Plus, Slovenia's Ursa Bogataj picked up two Winter Olympic gold medals in ski jumping at these Games, putting her on a par with alpine skiing great Tina Maze. Find out the ups and downs of her career finally led to elation.

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It's another exciting year of Olympics.com podcasts. We are looking forward to offering you another season of the best Olympic stories, with the Paris Games being the big highlight of 2024. The show will have great guests, the episodes will dig deep into the topic, the Olympics, Olympians, and sports. We’ll, of course, be truly global. Touching all 5 continents with our content. We’ll pay close attention to all the key events, updating stories and backstories on and off the field of play. It’ll be an all-encompassing conversation and we will signpost you to some of our outstanding original feature programming across all our Olympics.com platforms. So much to see, so much to enjoy. Be prepared to be entertained and inspired!