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There’s this half Chinese half American gal

Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:08 pm
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:08 pm
Eileen gu, born in America but competes for China in Olympics. Normally I’d say that’s unpatriotic and we should kick her out… but China did pay $20m. OT, can your loyalty be bought and if so how many bags of crawfish would it take?
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
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Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:09 pm to
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but China did pay $20m

Sounds like a $20M tariff on Chinese olympic medals is in order.
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
16244 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:10 pm to
Watch a world women’s golf match. Our whole team is Asian, most don’t speak English. Same could be said about a lot of sports. Look at the US figure skaters. lol.
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
6426 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:11 pm to
Yes but difference is they are born here representing here. Eileen born here representing China doesn’t sit well with me
Posted by supatigah
CEO of the Keith Hernandez Fan Club
Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:14 pm to
and yet Alyssa Liu has the same heritage and proudly competed for the US

how we celebrate her and ignore the other girl?
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
6426 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:16 pm to
I agree with you. I’m saying more should’ve Alyssa and less Eileen. We should revoke citizenship
Posted by StrongOffer
Member since Sep 2020
6552 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:16 pm to
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how we celebrate her and ignore the other girl?
Do you really not understand the difference?
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
16244 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:17 pm to
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Eileen born here representing China doesn’t sit well with me


Maybe she realizes our healthcare system is more f’ed than any developed country or that our president continues to divide people over petty name calling and insecurities.
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
46214 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:17 pm to
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Sounds like a $20M tariff on Chinese olympic medals is in order.


A 606 gram gold medal has aboot 6 grams of gold in it. Inflation changed the recipe for gold medals.

Are they now goldish medals?
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
13834 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:18 pm to
Eileen gu, born in America but competes for China in Olympics. Normally I’d say that’s unpatriotic and we should kick her out
---welcome to 3 weeks ago, baw
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86889 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:18 pm to
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most don’t speak English.


like who?
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
74278 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:20 pm to
stupid
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86889 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:20 pm to
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Maybe she realizes our healthcare system is more f’ed than any developed country or that our president continues to divide people over petty name calling and insecurities.



trollololol
Posted by Weekend Warrior79
Member since Aug 2014
21257 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:21 pm to
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half Chinese half American gal

There are rules.

There is definitely an unpatriotic aspect to the decision, but at the same time "is there a reason they are competing for a different country?" I don't recall the reason for Gu, but Mondo represents Sweeden because there are not as many hurdles to making the Swedish track team as there is for the US. There are a number of basketball players that compete for other countries because they could not make the US basketball team and have dual citizenships. Are we denouncing and "kicking them out" as well?
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16645 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:21 pm to
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OT, can your loyalty be bought


They didn't really buy her loyalty. She still American AF. She goes to school here, she lives here, she trains here, all she does is wear Chinese clothes to compete in and she gets millions more than she would get in the USA. That kind of capitalism is very American,
This post was edited on 3/3/26 at 12:23 pm
Posted by DVinBR
Member since Jan 2013
15497 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:23 pm to
Liu's father escaped China after Tiananmen Square and they had to deal with a fricking Chinese spy that posed as a U.S. Olympic Committee official
Posted by Pettifogger
I don't really care, Margaret
Member since Feb 2012
86889 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:23 pm to
It's pretty different, though.

If you're probably not making the US team and some minor league competitor will give you a spot (most/all of them being not adverse to the US) - whatever.

If you have a spot wherever you want it, and you go to the one that is hostile toward the country that trained and fostered you in pretty much every way for money, and you intend to keep benefiting from life in the US while trash talking US politics WHILE being silent about Chinese oppression - yeah, you're a different case.
Posted by supatigah
CEO of the Keith Hernandez Fan Club
Member since Mar 2004
89931 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:23 pm to
yes I do

do you?

one half chinese and half American athlete was paid by china to compete for them

one half chinese and half american athlete was also offered money by china and declined, choosing to compete for America

why should we care that one athlete took the chinese money? she made her choice

shouldnt we celebrate the athlete that declined the chinese money and skated for America based on her principles?
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16645 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:25 pm to
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Mondo represents Sweeden because there are not as many hurdles to making the Swedish track team as there is for the US.


The big thing for Mondo is the Swedes hired his dad. He got to keep his dad as his coach, which USA wouldn't have done. He gave an interview where he was having second thoughts and wanted to stick with the US, but then the Swedes swooped in and said his dad could be his coach and that sealed it.

Now he is off banging some Swede and got engaged to her, wonder if he really even still lives in the US anymore since track is bigger over there on the professional level.
This post was edited on 3/3/26 at 12:27 pm
Posted by supatigah
CEO of the Keith Hernandez Fan Club
Member since Mar 2004
89931 posts
Posted on 3/3/26 at 12:26 pm to
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Liu's father escaped China after Tiananmen Square and they had to deal with a fricking Chinese spy that posed as a U.S. Olympic Committee official


yeah amazing story, my wife got really into it and read a lot about Liu’s personal comeback story and her dad’s defiance and spirit

very inspiring, I think its great on so many levels
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