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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sorry for Zhu or Beverly or whatever she wants to call herself. She didn't just abandon the country she grew up in (the US) but she also gave up her citizenship. She's stuck over there after publicly failing which even more than the U.S. is extremely nationalistic about their Olympians and representation. Sucks for her.

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Now you're being silly.

1. Zhu didn't switch to representing China to win a medal, everyone and their aunt knows she is not competitive for medal spots.  But, and it's a big but, she got to go to the Olympics and probably a few other competitions, which would have never happened had she stayed with the American team.  Probably has ample ice time, good coaches, nice choreographers, and her parents don't need to remortgage their house to pay for it.  She probably wouldn't have made it out of sectionals here!  Do you know what it costs to keep a child in elite skating? $50K a year, easily.

2.  She can retrieve her US passport whenever she feels like it.  If she relinquished her citizenship in 2018, that means she was 16 and her decisions mean diddly.  She can walk into any US embassy, show her birth certificate, and get her passport back.[/quote]

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