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Anonymous wrote:Gu's student visa should be revoked, and the USG should look at the funding it gives to Stanford for allowing this shill into their school. Cut Stanford's funding too.

Her mother who raised her is Chinese and has an MBA from Stanford. Although born in the US, she has every right to compete for China and Stanford who loves to have gold medalists as students has every right to accept her.

People should not attack Chinese athletes because they don't approve of Chinese government policies.

Congrats Eileen!

Anonymous wrote:As an immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, OP's rant and much of the subsequent commentary in this thread comes across incredibly xenophobic to me. I had no idea my worthiness in this country is so heavily judged by "real" Americans as depending on how devoted to America vs. my home country I am.

Anonymous wrote:Eileen is a great talent and had an unique opportunity. The Olympics was in Beijing, she was multi cultural and the difference between her being here was in China is probably a xx million dollars. She capitalized on it. I'm sure everybody posting on this thread would have done the same had they had the opportunity. So stop judging her.

Anonymous wrote:Gu's student visa should be revoked, and the USG should look at the funding it gives to Stanford for allowing this shill into their school. Cut Stanford's funding too.

Anonymous wrote:I think she is very talented athlete but I am not a big fan of her. She needs to give up her US citizenship if she wants to represent China. The fact that China gave her a deal (to keep both citizenships) is not fair and right. You can clearly see how she answered the citizenship question from the reporters. It is straight out of PR books. Didn't give a straightforward answer.

Anonymous wrote:I think she is very talented athlete but I am not a big fan of her. She needs to give up her US citizenship if she wants to represent China. The fact that China gave her a deal (to keep both citizenships) is not fair and right. You can clearly see how she answered the citizenship question from the reporters. It is straight out of PR books. Didn't give a straightforward answer.

Anonymous wrote:Gu's student visa should be revoked, and the USG should look at the funding it gives to Stanford for allowing this shill into their school. Cut Stanford's funding too.

Anonymous wrote:Gu's student visa should be revoked, and the USG should look at the funding it gives to Stanford for allowing this shill into their school. Cut Stanford's funding too.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are two reasons to be more upset about Elaine Gu.

1. It's China, our geopolitical foe and gross abuser of human rights, masters of propaganda. They are not some two-bit corrupt country with little impact on the rest on the world.

2. Her talent and star power make her propaganda use by the Chinese government a big, big deal, and they're using it effectively. They brought Peng Shuai out from wherever they'd hidden her and put her in the stands to watch Gu win the gold medal yesterday. It's f*ucking disgusting.