Coco Gauff names the three Winter Olympic sports she would most like to try

Coco Gauff continues to show in winter sports with the current Olympic Games ongoing in Milano-Cortina.

Gauff is rooting for two Winter Olympians in particular, and she has also named two tennis players she thinks could do well at the Games.

While she did not name her as one of the two she was rooting for, Gauff also sent a heartfelt message to Lindsey Vonn after her heartbreaking fall.

Although she is a fan of Vonn, Gauff has picked three Winter Olympic sports she would want to try other than skiing.

Coco Gauff suggests three Winter Olympic sports she would do

Gauff reached the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships after overcoming Elise Mertens in a dramatic third round match, where she saved three match points.

Following her victory, Gauff was asked a variety of questions in her post-match press conference, which were mostly about the match.

Gauff was also asked a different question about the Winter Olympics, and which sport she would choose to participate in.

Instead of picking just one, Gauff named both speed and figure skating, as well as bobsleigh.

“That’s a good question,” responded Gauff. “I feel like either speed skating, just ’cause, I don’t know, it looks fun. Or figure skating just because I feel like flipping and all that, it looks so not easy, but they make it look so easy.

“I don’t know. Bobsledding. I feel like being the person to ride might be a little bit fun, too. It looks like a roller coaster, but I am sure it’s not that.”

Gauff is not the only player to have been asked this question, with her quarterfinal opponent Alexandra Eala also picking speed skating as her winter sport.

What sport did Coco Gauff think she could have been an Olympian in?

While Gauff chose those three winter sports as something she would like to try for fun, there is one summer Olympic sport she genuinely believed she could have been professional in.

At the 2024 Canadian Open, Gauff was asked about her experience at the Paris Olympics and if she had any envy seeing some of the athletics stars, as she had been successful at school.

Gauff responded by claiming that she genuinely thinks she could have been an Olympian in the 400 meter race if she had chosen athletics over tennis.

“Yeah, I actually do, and I do, I mean, I do feel like I could have been, I don’t know if I would have been as good as I was in tennis in track, but I strongly feel like if I would have trained I could have been an Olympian,” Gauff said at the time.

“Track is the only sport I would say that in just because I did do well in middle school like never training, I didn’t go to one track practice, and I won all my races except two, and both were against the same girl and she was in 8th grade.

“Yeah, my mom said too, she ran track at Florida State, so she was like, I think if, you know, I think 400 would have been my race. Noah Lyles said he saw me as like a 400 hurdler, but I’m like kind of scared of hurdlers, so, yeah, I don’t think I would have been like that (laughing), but definitely 400 or longer would have been my thing.

“I do wish that, sometimes I’m like, what could have happened. I even talked to my dad about putting me in some local track meets in the off-season, just for (laughing), you know, just for the fun of it, just to see where I could go.

“I think I do want to do that. I’d do, maybe one off-season, just run a race, it doesn’t hurt, I wouldn’t train much for it, but just to see what my time would be would be pretty cool. I never ran out of blocks before so I guess I would have to learn how to do that.”

Gauff regularly has been rewarded for her decision to stick with tennis as a two-time Grand Slam champion at just 21 years old.

The American will be looking to show her athletic ability to its full use when she plays Eala for a place in the Dubai Tennis Championships semifinals.

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