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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There's lots of professional boxers who have been hit more often and harder than you. Just suck it up.....You can certainly afford it
I am happy to hate China for you. The whole entire place, Chi coms and all.
In college, we had a lot of Vietnamese students coming off the Vietnam war. The Viet kids called the Chinese “the Jews of Asia”.
Where’s the boo hoo girl?
In college, we had a lot of Vietnamese students coming off the Vietnam war. The Viet kids called the Chinese “the Jews of Asia”.
Even Ho Chi Minh said, he’s rather smell French s___ for 5 years, than Chinese s___ for a thousand years.
XP: You beat me to it.
Not a punching bag. A DOOSHBAG.
It has become the common way to address the current Vice President by something other than ‘Vice President”.
With the last one, there were several nicknames, including of course “Kamala”. She only needs one name, sort of like Cher or Madonna.
Now, with Vice President J.D. Vance, he is often referred to as just “J.D.” same way as the Ukraine President Zelensky did at that argument filled White House meeting.’Now, Eileen Gu, an Olympic level Ski-er of ambiguous patriotism, calls him “J.D.”. I suppose it’s okay too.
She could have been far less respectful than that.
It also shows some level of acceptance that for the time being, this a a MAGA situation.
Don’t come back now Ya hear
China is an enemy nation. That's the difference. If she was mixed heritage and wanted to skate for Japan or Italy or any other country nobody would care.
Feels like? Hell, somebody ought to knock her out for her betrayal.
Patton address to the troops:
“When you put your hand into a bunch of goo, that a moment before was your best friend’s face, you’ll know what to do”.
Yes, I hate China. 70 million deaths under CCP rule has a way of fertilizing hate. Get out and don’t come back.
Dear young lady, if you want to be a communist that is your business; however, if you want to be an American, you are. Don’t complicate your life. Choose because you cannot be both.
This is one multi-millionaire that I do not care about whatever feelings she has. I hope she’s lost every friend she ever had in the USA.
poor China girl, she should hook up with Swalwell
7 posts before yours in comment #16
Meet the new Fang Fang. Same as the old Fang Fang.
Communists never tell you about the flash bang they put in your hand when they ask you to do something.
Imagine if an American of German heritage decided to compete for Nazi Germany in the 1936 Games, what the reaction would have been.
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