While the whole concept of competing for another country other than your own in the Olympics makes the entire event a joke, I can appreciate the sentiment of staying out of politics and focusing on the sport.
All the athletes need to respond similarly.
“””I can appreciate the sentiment of staying out of politics and focusing on the sport.””””
I doubt she would keep her mouth shut if they asked her about Orange Man Bad.
Agreed.
I do too. But in her case, she is on the China payroll and not in a position to criticize her financier.
I wish these damn reporters would stop asking gotcha questions and stick to the sport.
In the USA, we’ve all adopted the marxist concept that EVERYTHING must be about politics.
Certainly the left isn’t afraid to do it - from Hollywood to my local baker, the leftist drones insist on barking on the issue of the day, like trained dogs. Once it was “me too,” then it was health-care, now it’s ICE.
Do I care that Eileen Gu, and Olympic skier and model for couture brands does not care about Uyghurs?
NO.
“Sport”? You spelled “business” wrong.
I loathe dual citizenship.
My dad is a dual citizen of Mexico and the US. Personally I think it should be done away with.
She is a citizen of Communist China. She can respond no other way.
It wouldn’t help her if they took exception and punished her even she claimed American citizenship as well (since she hasn’t renounced it)
They only recognize her as a citizen of Communist China. So she understands which side her bread is buttered on.
Willing to bet she is all about BLM, Free Palestine, Stolen land etc