Bay Area-born freestyle skier Eileen Gu crashed the Chinese internet after winning gold for China on her debut at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the first of three she hopes to claim on behalf of her mother’s home country. “The future is bright” for Gu and her teammates, read a Feb. 8 letter from China’s Winter Sports Administrative Center, congratulating them for claiming China’s first gold on snow. “Score greater glory for the Party and the people,” the letter urged the team. On China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo, the outpouring of adulation from Chinese fans for the 18-year-old champion temporarily overloaded the site. “Dad with Harvard, mom with Peking University and Stanford, grandmother an athlete, she herself beautiful and stylish,” said one post that got shared 115,000 times. The reception to Gu sharply contrasts with the intense scrutiny felt by Zhu Yi, the figure skater who gave up her American citizenship in …