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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zhu would not have made team USA. This happens all the time and is a non issue. We have plenty of athletes that won gold for the USA but grew up and trained somewhere else.

Gu is different. She is a superstar, best in the world at what she does. When she made the china decision she was already the best and firmly #1 on team USA with a guaranteed spot which makes the China choice a mystery (I’ve heard her explanation but something seems off). Now she was also 15 years old and did what her mom told her, you absolutely can’t blame her as the mom is a known tiger mom and I’m sure it was the moms choice.[/quote]

It's no mystery at all.  A female snowboarder who wins multiple golds for the US will get some endorsements, but nothing spectacular.  A female snowboarder who was raised in the US, but decided to compete for China, who had Chinese heritage, and wins multiple golds?  The best china has ever done in the winter olympics is 7th in medal count, and they're usually around 12-15.  The most golds they've ever won is 5, and she may will 3 all by herself.  She is absolutely going to clean up in endorsements, modeling contracts, etc.

She has the chance to set herself up with generational wealth by doing this.  [/quote]

This.  All you people who are so shocked that Gu gave up American endorsement money are naive.

Also, it’s unclear exactly what deal she cut with China, she may have even retained her US citizenship.

Athletes should do everything they can to cash in while they can.  Their earnings window is painfully short and god knows none of you faux outragers are going to step up and pay her rent ten years from now. Nope, you’ll be calling her washed up, if you remember her at all.[/quote]

She is already a successful model. She is all super smart (SAT 1580) and is attending Stanford. She will never have trouble paying her rent. [/quote]

There's a big difference in never having trouble paying the rent and the millions and millions of dollars she'll make from Chinese endorsements.

I made a mistake earlier - she is a freestyle skier, not a snowboarder.

What I find hypocritical is that no one gets upset when it is some less talented athlete who makes this decision, and competes for a foreign nation.  But when someone who is talented and a gold medal threat (and winner) does, she's reviled.  [/quote]

I don’t think the difference is the talent.  I am happy to cheer for athletes no matter what country they represent.  I think the irritation here is the lack of transparency about her citizenship status.  I don’t think the other athletes have dodged those questions like Gu has.[/quote]

The original post of this thread suggests otherwise.  [/quote]

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