Anonymous wrote:
It's rather interesting that Zhu renounced her US citizenship in 2018 to become a Chinese citizenship. Her father who is an award winning scientist in artificial intelligence was working at UCLA, but now he is at Peking University. She is obviously not a great skater so it begs the question . . . did they want her or her father?

He should be forced to pay back every single grant dollar her took.

It's rather interesting that Zhu renounced her US citizenship in 2018 to become a Chinese citizenship. Her father who is an award winning scientist in artificial intelligence was working at UCLA, but now he is at Peking University. She is obviously not a great skater so it begs the question . . . did they want her or her father?

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/33160624/olympics-2022-freeski-star-eileen-gu-delicate-balancing-act-china-us

I feel a little bad for her. She chose to compete for China when she was only 15. And that was a decision with major consequences for the rest of her life. It certainly looks like her mother pressured her to make this decision. She had to renounced her US citizenship and for the rest of her life will have to toe the line China sets. She’s certainly losing endorsement $$$.

I have kids in their late teens. So, I know 15 year olds can be convinced to do stupid stuff. She’s subject to the whims of the Chinese government. So no OP, she doesn’t get all the benefits of being American anymore. Because legally she isn’t American.

If Gu wants to be a pawn, what do I care? She will have to live with it. I won't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Some people have dual citizenship and deep roots in more than one country. Many athletes can’t qualify for the US and can for another country, and want to be Olympians.
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Honestly, your outrage about this is ridiculous and baffling. It’s a skiing or speed skating contest, or something similar. It’s not like they are working in the CIA and spying for China. In the larger scheme of things, who cares what flag the woman who gets 6th in Skeleton has on her uniform?


It’s like getting mad the the local HS football star turns down UVA for Alabama. Who cares? He did what worked best for him and what he feels advances his career.



Maybe stop day drinking???


Wow, please tell me you aren't this dumb. Gu is clearly too stupid to see that she is being used as a political pawn by the CCP to further their agenda. And you are too stupid to see it too. It's a lot different than your stupid football analogy.

Just how does she "further their agenda"? Please be specific.

You are being willfully obtuse at this point. China loves to try to project soft power in order to advance their agenda on the world stage. What could possibly be better than taking a US citizen, flip them, and have them compete to win gold medals for your country (i.e China)? You completely underestimate how much countries like China and Russia take the Olympics seriously, because they love to use the Olympics as a platform as a way to display their power. Gu is just another pawn of the CCP to spread their agenda, and a pawn for a country currently committing some of the worst state sponsored human rights violations on the planet. You can't have it both ways - living in a country where you are free to speak your mind, yet representing a country where Uyghurs can't speak their mind and are being exterminated off the face of the planet. Complete hypocrisy.

Anonymous wrote:Some people have dual citizenship and deep roots in more than one country. Many athletes can’t qualify for the US and can for another country, and want to be Olympians.

Honestly, your outrage about this is ridiculous and baffling. It’s a skiing or speed skating contest, or something similar. It’s not like they are working in the CIA and spying for China. In the larger scheme of things, who cares what flag the woman who gets 6th in Skeleton has on her uniform?


It’s like getting mad the the local HS football star turns down UVA for Alabama. Who cares? He did what worked best for him and what he feels advances his career.



Maybe stop day drinking???

Gu would easily qualify for Team USA. That's not a question at all. She specifically chooses to represent China even though she has an American father, was born in the US, and was born a US citizen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How about Americans who get college paid for and then go to work in other countries and for other countries? Are they hypocrites?

Way to compare apples to oranges. Other countries have specific scholarship programs intended for anyone, including people who are not citizens. They also have scholarship programs intended for their own citizens. It'd be like a German citizen in Germany enjoying all of the scholarship programs for German citizens only, yet going out an competing for Russia.

Gu enjoys everything about the US, yet enriches herself competing for China. The hypocrisy is truly astounding. It's funny how progressives will defend her when she competes for the country systematically wiping out Uyghurs while the same progressives will chastise China over the issue. You can't have it both ways.

Wtf are you talking about? No one I know who is a progressive is “defending” Gu. Frankly, I find her participation on behalf of China and her plastic surgery to be really gross.

Anonymous wrote:
Some people have dual citizenship and deep roots in more than one country. Many athletes can’t qualify for the US and can for another country, and want to be Olympians.
[b]
Honestly, your outrage about this is ridiculous and baffling. It’s a skiing or speed skating contest, or something similar. It’s not like they are working in the CIA and spying for China. In the larger scheme of things, who cares what flag the woman who gets 6th in Skeleton has on her uniform?


It’s like getting mad the the local HS football star turns down UVA for Alabama. Who cares? He did what worked best for him and what he feels advances his career.



Maybe stop day drinking???


Wow, please tell me you aren't this dumb. Gu is clearly too stupid to see that she is being used as a political pawn by the CCP to further their agenda. And you are too stupid to see it too. It's a lot different than your stupid football analogy.

Just how does she "further their agenda"? Please be specific.

I agree with you, OP. It is one thing to be a citizen of another country, come to the US and compete for a pro team like in baseball or hockey. And, then play for that country in the Olympics.
But, if one is actually born here, is a US citizen, and decides to compete for another country, I think it is wrong.

This is one reason I think the Olympics are quickly becoming a sham. I think the IOC is corrupt and that major changes need to happen or just get rid of the games altogether,

Anonymous wrote:Some people have dual citizenship and deep roots in more than one country. Many athletes can’t qualify for the US and can for another country, and want to be Olympians.

Honestly, your outrage about this is ridiculous and baffling. It’s a skiing or speed skating contest, or something similar. It’s not like they are working in the CIA and spying for China. In the larger scheme of things, who cares what flag the woman who gets 6th in Skeleton has on her uniform?


It’s like getting mad the the local HS football star turns down UVA for Alabama. Who cares? He did what worked best for him and what he feels advances his career.



Maybe stop day drinking???

Wow, please tell me you aren't this dumb. Gu is clearly too stupid to see that she is being used as a political pawn by the CCP to further their agenda. And you are too stupid to see it too. It's a lot different than your stupid football analogy.

This is truly a nothing burger.

Anonymous wrote:
How about Americans who get college paid for and then go to work in other countries and for other countries? Are they hypocrites?

Way to compare apples to oranges. Other countries have specific scholarship programs intended for anyone, including people who are not citizens. They also have scholarship programs intended for their own citizens. It'd be like a German citizen in Germany enjoying all of the scholarship programs for German citizens only, yet going out an competing for Russia.

Gu enjoys everything about the US, yet enriches herself competing for China. The hypocrisy is truly astounding. It's funny how progressives will defend her when she competes for the country systematically wiping out Uyghurs while the same progressives will chastise China over the issue. You can't have it both ways.

How about Americans who get college paid for and then go to work in other countries and for other countries? Are they hypocrites?

Feel better now?

It is sooooooo hypocritical that we have athletes living in this country who get to enjoy all of the benefits of living in the US, but then go compete under the banner of another country. Eileen Gu loves all of the freedom in the US, was born a US citizen, yet has no qualms about enriching herself as an athlete for 'China' while the country she competes for has systemic oppression of multiple ethnic minorities ongoing at the moment. Zhu Yi is also a hypocrite, because she enjoys living in California while skating for China. Why is it that all of these traitors to the US Olympic seem to be coming from blue states like California too? If they are living in blue democrat states, shouldn't they be tuned into socially progressive agendas that run those states? How could you possibly live in California while simultaneously make money representing a country that commits some of the worst human rights violations in the modern world? Such hypocrisy. Athletes like Gu should lose all benefits of living in the US, starting with her presidential scholars program benefits, which is intended for US citizens.