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I think she wouldn't have been on either team - Chinese or American and by showing up where she clearly was unqualified to be - she ruined another Chinese skater's chances, lost her own future of development (personally and academically) in the U.S., and dropped her citizenship which families pay millions to get.

She doesn't even speak fluent Mandarin. I can't imagine leaving my entire country and childhood behind only to fail so publicly. That's on her parents and her.[/quote]

She IS on the Chinese team.

She finished 4th at the 2019 Chinese nationals. That's not in top three but tons better than she'd be here.

I think you're so blinded that you can't possibly imagine that another family may make a rational decision to switch to China in a way that makes sense for them.   I mean yes, why get tons of free ice time when you can continue paying fifty grand a year to keep a kid in elite skating with no promise of results? Why go to international meets when you can be content never getting out of sectionals?

Did you feel the same way about Kristin Fraser competing for Azerbaijan?

Did you feel the same way about Tanith Belbin being fast-tracked for American citizenship?[/quote]

Tanith Belbin medaled, kept dual citizenship which is a better prospective, and ended up in a lucrative career in part because her native language was the same as her host country.

Zhu/Beverly Yi sounds like a scared kid who was tricked into doing something she never should have and lost everything in the process. The same thing is happening to Eileen Gu btw - but at least she speaks the language for a country she is now citizen of for the rest of her life. They're both losing like Kristin Fraser and since you keep bringing her up - what happened to her? Where is she now? No one knows.

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