Posted on 02/20/2026 2:53:20 PM PST by Kazan
Olympic freestyle skier Eileen Gu is complaining that she feels like a “punching bag” for those who criticize her for turning her back on the USA and choosing to compete for China at the Winter Games in Milan, Italy.
Gu reacted on Thursday to Vice President JD Vance, who said he hoped that US-born athletes would “want to compete with the United States of America.”
Despite that, Vance did not mention her by name, the turncoat Olympian told reporters, “I’m flattered. Thanks, JD! That’s sweet,” according to the New York Post.
The five-time Olympic medalist then agreed that she feels like a “punching bag.”
“I do,” she said. “So many athletes compete for a different country. … People only have a problem with me doing it because they kind of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they just hate China. So, it’s not really about what they think it’s about.”
She added, “And also, because I win. Like if I wasn’t doing well, I think that they probably wouldn’t care as much, and that’s OK for me. People are entitled to their opinions.”
Gu has been working to pump up her victim status this month. Recently, she claimed she was “assaulted” and “robbed” while attending Stanford University in California back in 2022. She also now claims that she faced “hate” that same year when she announced she was headed to China for the 2022 games in Beijing.
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While Gu often criticizes the U.S., she never says an unkind word about China, the land of her mother’s birth.
Most recently, she refused to comment on China’s decades of oppressing, imprisoning, and enslaving its Uyghur minority population. Indeed, this week, Gu claimed it was a political matter, and the Uyghur genocide is “not her business.”
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Well, she earned it fair and square.
Oh no. Consequences for my actions
The $6 million should ease her pain a little bit.
Decisions like hers come with consequences. She didn’t anticipate that?
She’s crying all the way to the bank.
We know what she is, now we’re just haggling over price.
The Olympics are no longer amateur sports. It’s merely professional sports teams with a country sponsor. Countries recruit cross borders.
Enjoy your CCP Millions $ and shut the fhut up.
I had a different name in my mind and it started with the letter “C”.
What a coincidence. I feel like a punching bag because of her and the other anti American olympians whining about deporting the illegals Biden and co brought in to invade the US
If she, they or anyone who supports them tries to thank me for mybcomvmbat service I won’t respond kindly.
And furthermore, Freestyle Skiing ain’t skiing. It’s figure skating on snow.
Oh boo effing hoo.
You sold our country out for a few lousy sheckles? You deserve it.
This is like the NIL in college sports. The ChiComs paid her more than the US did obviously
Why don’t you just cry all the way to the bank sweetheart.
The choice you made was for money, not love.
“Benedict Arnold feels like a punching bag after betraying his country”
I don’t “hate” China. I hate the effing chicoms trying to ruin the world, like all commies do.
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