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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.[/quote]

The point is that you're being hypocritical and racist when you're making up horror stories about her.  Skaters switch countries all the time for their own purposes.  It has little to do with their plans for the rest of their lives.  You clearly have no issues with American skaters acquiring citizenships of obscure (and corrupt) countries in the name of an Olympic berth.  You also clearly have no issues with America handing out citizenship to skaters that may enhance its competitive record internationally.  But someone switching to China? Uh huh, no, can't have that, because something.

[b]Stop bringing up medals. She did not go there to medal[/b], do you really think the Chinese skating federation doesn't have a clear idea of their skaters' abilities? Do you think that only athletes with a chance to medal should go to the Olympics? Then the rest of the ladies skaters who aren't from Russia may as well pack their bags right now and go home.  Do you understand that for most athletes just to GO to the Olympics is a pinnacle of their achievement?  Not to medal but to GO? She had no chance to go to the Olympics to represent the US.  Now, whatever happens to her competitive record, she'll always be an Olympian.  Do you get that this is meaningful for her?

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Now I've heard it all. Who gets on an Olympic team with the express wish NOT TO MEDAL? For themselves or for their country? Or maybe I'm just too used to Americans medaling consistently. Here its desirable. We don't join a competition to lose.

- signed a forever fan of Mackayla Maroney who made this face not because she lost but because she was unimpressed with Silver.

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I am going to explain this like you're five years old.

There will be thirty lady skaters competing in these Olympic games.  Three will medal.  Twenty-seven will not.

Now, a couple of trick questions:

Do you think the twenty-seven who will NOT medal already know they will not medal? Like, they've compared their bag of tricks to the ladies on top and realistically deduced they have no chance to medal? Yes or no?

OK. Another trick question.  Do you think these twenty-seven ladies should just pack their bags and go home since they won't medal and most of them know they won't medal?

Or is there, I dunno, some special value and meaning attached to participating in the Olympic games? To just freaking being there?

Oh wait, I'm going to send a message to the American women skaters that they should go home.  Some chick on DCUM thinks Americans should only enter competitions they are going to win.  She's so, I dunno, USED to Americans winning, she can't take them NOT winning. [/quote]

You must be desperate because you're making basic mistakes. Zhu qualified under the women's TEAM short program. She fell under that program and took the entire Chinese team (7 other competitors) who were in 3rd place - down to 5th. Preventing an entire TEAM from medaling. So a) it wasn't just 3 out of 27 people who can medal and b) her failure became her team's failure which makes it even more pitiful. Thanks to her Japan is in the lead for Bronze and there's no way anyone but Russia and U.S. will take Silver and Gold for team medals (not even speaking on individuals). The lead is too far to catch up for a team medal with one program remaining.

Here's the U.S. celebrating its 2018 Bronze TEAM medal.

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