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Olympian Eileen Gu Says She Feels Like a ‘Punching Bag’ Amid Fan Backlash Over Ditching Team USA for China
Breitbart ^ | 20 Feb 2026 | Warner Todd Huston

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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To: Kazan

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!


41 posted on 02/20/2026 4:43:50 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith

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


42 posted on 02/20/2026 4:44:57 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Kazan

43 posted on 02/20/2026 5:04:55 PM PST by Allegra (We will not be emotionally blackmailed into backing off what we voted for. )
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To: Kazan
You're Chinese royalty. You picked your bed. Stay there.
44 posted on 02/20/2026 5:06:39 PM PST by Chgogal (The NYT is the mouthpiece of the violent left-wing Democrat Pa)
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To: dfwgator

She can always go work for Onlyfans.


45 posted on 02/20/2026 5:08:41 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Bullish

She’s nothing but a traitor.


46 posted on 02/20/2026 5:08:59 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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🤷🏼‍♂️just another ChiCom


47 posted on 02/20/2026 5:14:58 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Kazan

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?


48 posted on 02/20/2026 5:34:43 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Yep. Face value case of FAFO.


49 posted on 02/20/2026 5:37:58 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Salvavida

I had a different name in mind too. It starts with the letter P.


50 posted on 02/20/2026 5:47:00 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: dfwgator

I’m moving to the University of North Texas in a few weeks


51 posted on 02/20/2026 5:49:08 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

My son went there, I actually remember seeing those mugs in the school store, wished I bought one.

They only lasted a few weeks.


52 posted on 02/20/2026 5:50:11 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Poor baby.

I bet Julius and Ethel Rosenberg felt like punching bags too.


53 posted on 02/20/2026 5:50:57 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: dfwgator
We know what she is, now we’re just haggling over price.

Heh

Jane, You Ignorant Slut

54 posted on 02/20/2026 5:51:06 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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To: LegendHasIt

And Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose.


55 posted on 02/20/2026 5:51:51 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator
Imagine if an American of German heritage decided to compete for Nazi Germany in the 1936 Games, what the reaction would have been.

Exactly.

56 posted on 02/20/2026 6:18:16 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Thank you, Lord. Every day. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝.)
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To: Kazan

For someone to live in the US and play for China seems to me, she has decided where to live.. Ba BYE.


57 posted on 02/20/2026 8:14:36 PM PST by Glad2bnuts
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To: Kazan

She should move to China.


58 posted on 02/20/2026 10:08:48 PM PST by reardensteel
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To: Kazan

It’s called “consequences”.

Suck it up.


59 posted on 02/20/2026 11:20:33 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Kazan

Gu Gone


60 posted on 02/21/2026 6:16:23 AM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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