Winter Olympics: Chinese freestyle ski star Eileen Gu’s mother gives advice to parents hoping to raise a champion by Alice Yan in Shanghai 9 Feb, 2022
After studying in summer school training institutions in Beijing, Eileen returned to the US and reportedly became a straight-A student.
Despite being primarily educated in the US schooling system and going on to attend an elite US university, Eileen praised the Chinese school system as superior, saying in an interview state broadcaster CCTV that: “My mother told me that studying in Beijing for 10 days equals what I could learn in the US for a year”.
When asked whether her mother is a tiger mum, Eileen said her mother is actually a “rabbit mum”.
“I know every child thinks their own mother is the best mother. But I do think my mum is the best because she can do many more things than other mums and she does all these by herself,” she told CCTV. “Sorry to other people’s mums, but my mum is better than you.”
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