Time:

China’s Olympic freestyle skiing champion Eileen Gu announced Tuesday at the TIME100 Summit that she will serve as an ambassador for the U.S. bid to host the 2030 or 2034 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

In a time of great geopolitical tension between the United States and China, a prominent Chinese figure helping a U.S. cause is rare.

The 18-year-old Gu said she doesn’t regret representing China rather than the U.S. at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Gu became the first extreme sports athlete to win three medals—two of them gold—at a single Olympic Games earlier this year.

生词短语：

freestyle skiing

自由式滑雪

ambassador

大使

bid

努力争取

geopolitical tension

地缘政治学的

prominent

著名的; 杰出的

extreme sports athlete

极限运动