A 17-year-old daredevil could be China's next Olympic star
Eileen Gu, a 17-year-old freeskier, hails from San Francisco, but her mother is from China. She won two gold medals at the Winter X Games.
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I saw a report on the news about this and she is making something like $35 million a year in endorsements for competing for China. I have to say, that number is big enough for me to compete for another country too, if I cold.
The NBC segment said that China doesn’t allow dual citizenship so it’s unclear how this is being allowed.
Born in the U.S.
Lives in the U.S.
Trained in the U.S.
Competed for the U.S.
Ancient Chinese secret.
China doesn't have Rule of Law like America does. So, you know how it's being allowed.
It's almost as if China doesn't really care about rules and does whatever benefits them the most. Strange.
CCP
If an athlete is likely to win gold then CCP requires only a to-go order from chinese restaurant in last 6 months.
If an athlete is likely to win gold then CCP requires only a to-go order from chinese restaurant in last 6 months.
That isn't true at all unless you are someone like a Biles or Phelps. There are way more broke olympians than olympians making okay money.
No kidding besides the flying tomato name another winter X Games champion without google.
Not seeing a lot of endorsements for Suni Lee, though.
Perhaps there are some biases in play you're not paying attention to...
She's a freshman at Auburn right now, so maybe her focus is on using gymnastics to get an education. Plus, it didn't help that she supplanted the media's darling, Simone Biles.
Sure, but when looking at this specific comparison it falls short by orders of magnitude. Crazy if that 35 mil number is accurate for a freestyle skier.
BTW, I believe she has been competing for China since 2019. So this “defection” isn’t exactly recent.
As they say she read the room. Smart business.
I thought I saw something about Chris Chelios’ son playing hockey for China. Figured I read that wrong, but maybe not?
I don't think it's based upon legal citizenship per se. Greece did this with several sports back in 2004, when they hosted. Lots of Americans with Greek heritage played for and represented Greece.
Popped into my head that @naturalmwa woukda liked this.
@naturalmwa woulda responded to ^^ with something like, “I can pop something else into your head if you like.”
Rules are flexible when it is convenient for the people in power. It's not just that way in America. Also, the rules for citizenship and the rules for competing for a country's national team aren't always the same. This happens in soccer all the time.
Probably. But she chose China. /shrug. I don't know enough about it to say anything more than that.
Certainly not the first American to compete for another country in the Olympics.
Yes, he plays for a B1G school (MSU?) as another hockey player from a B1G school (Minnesota?) is going to play for Canada now that the NHL players are off the rosters for the Olympics.
Remind me of this….
The United States doesn’t allow natural born citizens to renounce their citizenship before the age of 16, so you get Chinese citizenship and renounce your US citizenship at 15. China pretends it counts. We don’t accept it.
