There is no way she is conversational in Mandarin. She can barely even string together a sentence in English. |
She probably doesn't even understand what the two words separately mean. |
UCLA is nowhere near Stanford's tier. |
+1 and she's everywhere right now I can't believe DCUM is "concerned" for her. |
No one cares. Neither of them is remotely Chinese. Only Chinese nationals are strangely obsessed with white people identifying as Chinese. |
Let’s be real, if your kid had UCLA admission you’d be happy. |
People here in this country are very obsessed with why she is not representing America. Pretty stupid. |
Money. |
So true! One woman athlete represents another country + MAGAs are twisting their panties. US males in sports such as basketball and hockey have been doing this for years. As EG said, if she wasn't any good, no one would care. Also, MAGAs don't like women who think for themselves + have their own power. |
| Lots of American athletes represent different countries. |
EG is a huge threat to the MAGA movement - she's a young, gorgeous, brilliant, independent, successful woman, and she's Chinese. Of course, they hate her. She represents everything they complain about. |
In fairness, it’s 99% because they couldn’t make the US team but still want to be in the Olympics. I think everyone gets that. I don’t fault EG…but she is doing it purely for the $$$s. I know it’s crass to say it, but her excuses are just so hollow. Almost wish she would say “here is what I get repping China, and here is what I would earn if on the US team”. It would be millions either way, but she probably earns 2x-3x repping China vs US. |
I’d respect her even more if she just said she did it for the money, but she’s probably repeating what an agent told her to say. |
The US govt Dow not pay athletes! Behind what $10k for a medal. The rest is endorsements etc and they have to pay for all the training facilities out to pocket. China and many other govts pay athletes. |
Putting that aside, she still earns double to triple the endorsement $$$s because of all the Chinese brands. She wouldn’t get those if she didn’t compete for China and it doesn’t impact any of her US deals. |