Winter Olympics: San Francisco’s Eileen Gu finishes second but her slopestyle loss is hardly a ‘disaster’

By EDDIE PELLS

LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — The nickname for the trick is “disaster.” Freeskiing star Eileen Gu saw it as something other than that.

Because Gu landed that trick once at the top of the supersized rails portion of the Olympic slopestyle course Monday, she opened her Milan-Cortina odyssey — three events and up to 15 dangerous trips down the slopes over 15 days — with a second straight silver medal in the event.

Because the San Francisco native couldn’t land it the other two times over the three-run contest...