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Pride, patriotism and gold: Alysa Liu shows us what real Olympic champions are made of
American Thinker ^ | 20 Feb, 2026 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 02/21/2026 7:27:18 AM PST by MtnClimber

You never go wrong with competing under the American flag.

She did it.

After a string of wokester statements from other athletes, and way too much attention on American athletes who chose to compete for other countries such as China, the amazing Alysa Liu, who focused on her skating and delivered a stellar, watch-it-over-and-over-again free skate, has won Olympic gold, the biggest prize in skating.

.....................SNIP.......................

It kind of stands out that China, which doesn't have a high winter Olympics medal count, is apparently trawling the world for overseas Chinese athletes who fled the socialist hellhole to represent them since they don't seem to have a lot of athletes of their own to present as Olympians.

And it was a hellhole indeed that her noble father fled, a true refugee from China, as a student leader in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square protests. They hunted him down, attempted to jail him forever, and he escaped -- to have a daughter who coached beautifully, became a champion under his tutelage, took a couple years off to regain her sense of self, and came back with a vengeance, Best of all, she chose America and is now America's sweetheart.

It's striking how Gu took the danegelt had been promoted on NBC as the wokester sweetheart for whom nationalities were unimportant -- but it will be Alysa who is going to be in the real cash, reaping far greater rewards from product endorsements as the vast American market can't get enough of her. If Gu got her $6 million to promote herself in China,

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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: alysaliu; china; olympics

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1 posted on 02/21/2026 7:27:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Alysa Liu was offered millions of dollars to skate for China, but unlike Eileen Gu, Alysa turned them down.


2 posted on 02/21/2026 7:27:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Gu is crying all the way to the bank.


3 posted on 02/21/2026 7:28:47 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

See who makes more endorsement money in the future. It ain’t gonna be Eileen Gu.


4 posted on 02/21/2026 7:30:03 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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US-born Eileen Gu is representing China at the Winter Olympics.
5 posted on 02/21/2026 7:42:06 AM PST by deport
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To: HYPOCRACY

Apparently the Chinese are not big fans of Gu.


6 posted on 02/21/2026 7:43:33 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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I can see why.


7 posted on 02/21/2026 7:52:20 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: HYPOCRACY

Nobody likes a traitor.


8 posted on 02/21/2026 7:55:36 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

Congrats to Alysa Liu.
Block Gu’s Passport entering America.
She can become a Permanent Chinese Citizen.


9 posted on 02/21/2026 7:59:56 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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The ChiComs don’t want her, neither.

Well at least she has all that money, I guess.


10 posted on 02/21/2026 8:00:57 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

Megyn Kelly reported yesterday that Eileen Gu is now worth $23 million - what a sellout and she should be made to live in the country she represented - Communist China.

Alysa Liu was wonderful, so glad she watched. I saw it come up in my newsfeed when I was having lunch with a group of friends and everyone cheered and said “Thank God!”


11 posted on 02/21/2026 8:02:13 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: deport

Is she one of the birth vacation babys the Chinese love to crap on us?


12 posted on 02/21/2026 8:03:16 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Talking about the Gu above.


13 posted on 02/21/2026 8:04:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: dfwgator

Exactly.


14 posted on 02/21/2026 8:15:18 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: deport

Odd, but why doesn’t Eileen Gu look 100% Chinese?


15 posted on 02/21/2026 8:16:23 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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“...they don’t seem to have a lot of athletes of their own to present as Olympians.”

Watch for Zhang Ruiyang in four years. She skated an outstanding program in the free skate. She’s a pixy going to middle school in Beijing.

wy69


16 posted on 02/21/2026 8:27:14 AM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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To: Tommy Revolts
Odd, but why doesn’t Eileen Gu look 100% Chinese?

She has a white, American father.

17 posted on 02/21/2026 8:44:37 AM PST by norcal joe
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I think the interesting story here is Gu’s mother - Gu Yan.

She’s the perfect post-modern, materialist, elitist product of communist China as well as the Davos age.

She carefully chose sperm and genetics to create a test-tube child, and then managed the child’s conditions between the USA and China taking advtange of both - to allow her child to maximize her elitist ideals of intellect, looks, educational pedigree and wealth


18 posted on 02/21/2026 9:03:22 AM PST by PGR88
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To: MtnClimber

.....And it was a hellhole indeed that her noble father fled, a true refugee from China, as a student leader in 1989 during the Tiananmen Square protests. They hunted him down, attempted to jail him forever, and he escaped — to have a daughter who coached beautifully, became a champion under his tutelage, took a couple years off to regain her sense of self, and came back with a vengeance, Best of all, she chose America and is now America’s sweetheart.....

Bravo to both Alysa Liu and her father!


19 posted on 02/21/2026 11:04:09 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: MtnClimber

Congratulations on your win, you more than earned it.
On another subject shouldn’t athletes be required to compete for their own country?


20 posted on 02/21/2026 11:12:27 AM PST by Ronald77 ( )
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