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, girl girl, it’s ya own mizzrable fault!
I gave you no compunction to spit on veterans’ graves, so daty’all could jus sashay to the team of Communists!
In the immortal words of Radiohead:
You do it to yourself, you do
And that’s what really hurts
Is that you do it to yourself, just you
You and no one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
She can always go work for Onlyfans.
She’s nothing but a traitor.
🤷🏼♂️just another ChiCom
Girl, does it ever occur to you that if your mom lived in China when she was pregnant with you she would have been forced to kill you in her womb?
Yep. Face value case of FAFO.
I had a different name in mind too. It starts with the letter P.
I’m moving to the University of North Texas in a few weeks
My son went there, I actually remember seeing those mugs in the school store, wished I bought one.
They only lasted a few weeks.
Poor baby.
I bet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg felt like punching bags too.
Heh
And Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose.
Exactly.
For someone to live in the US and play for China seems to me, she has decided where to live.. Ba BYE.
She should move to China.
It’s called “consequences”.
Suck it up.
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