Posted on 02/04/2022 2:50:08 PM PST by aquila48
Iconic American brands like Tiffany's and Cadillac continue to sponsor Californian skier Eileen Gu, the poster girl of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics despite her turning her back on Team USA to instead represent China and promote the Games for them worldwide.
The 18-year-old was born and raised in San Francisco where she attended high school. She has also won a place to study at Stanford. Her mother Yan is a first-generation Chinese immigrant and her father, reportedly American, has never been publicly named.
Despite competing as an American for most of her youth career in freestyle skiing, Gu will this year compete at the Olympics for China and she is now promoting the event for the Chinese, narrating videos online and appearing in commercials.
She made the decision in 2019 at the age of 15, claiming at the time she wanted to inspire a generation of young Chinese girls to pursue winter sports - which are comparatively less celebrated and glamorous in Asia than in the US.
It is unclear now where Gu's American citizenship stands - China does not recognize dual citizenship and minors under the age of 16 cannot renounce their US citizenship because they are not deemed mature enough to make the decision. Gu's reps will not confirm whether or not she has given up her American citizenship, or if China has asked her to.
While choosing to represent China - where she is known as 'Gu Ailing', 'the snow princess' and has 1.3million on Weibo - she maintains significant sponsorship deals from American brands like Cadillac, Tiffany's, Visa, Therabody, Victoria's Secret and Oakley.
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The children of foreigners are who the founders were excluding from being President with the natural born citizen clause.
So what is the answer to “Why”?
Her mother Yan is a first-generation Chinese immigrant
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Mom is the motivating force here. Born and raised in China she is following the Chinese imperative to make as much money as possible regardless of morals or consequences by driving her kid to love Xi Jinping and the Party. Inspiring mainland Chinese girls is a crock - dreamed up as an acceptable motive by westerners.
FU YOO GOO, go to hell, GO FLY YOUR CHINESE FLAG AND STICK IT UP YOUR GOO _____ after you fall down skiing and break your neck (hopefully).. TRAITOR.
Any evidence of that? She lives here. Is she here on some visa now?
Likely that contracts are are for her ability and star power and not tied to a specific country to perform. This will still payoff for the companies if she does well in and out of China.
Thai is no different than the Chinese hockey team purchasing hired guns from America, Canada, and Europe.
I think our national teams should have stayed home (U.S. and Canada) and I don’t plan to watch anything from Commieland.
Yeah, as if.
Selling them the rope they’ll hang us with.
We should have boycotted. I am not watching any of it.
She has not. She just got a 2nd passport from China, which normally is not possible because China does not allow dual citizenship, but China’s laws are for show and the CCP can do whatever they want so she is given an exemption.
Why?
Corporations: Greed! My guess is the companies want more business with China...
Athlete: Notoriety and greed. No idea where she stands in terms of rankings, but she is getting a lot more buzz than any other athlete from my casual following of news reports.
This may be a first when a US citizen/athlete renounces US citizenship or makes an agreement with foreign country (our enemy?) to compete against their home country. In the past, the practice was reserved for athletes who were not Americans—competing here until the Olympics, then switching to their home country. Ex. men’s swimming.
Seems Olympics are now about $$$$.
Neither do I. F—king woke are all upset about slavery 150 years ago but don’t care about it today. Screw ‘em. I bet the little princess trained at American Olympic facilities.
Chinese market is bigger than US market. Follow the yuans.
Since her mother is from China, but Eileen was born in the US, does Gu automatically have Chinese citizenship?
Yeah GM sells more cars in China than in N. America.
I’m with you. Going to miss curling, but only way we tell the murdering Chicoms and the media who is in charge is to hit them where it hurts. In this case ratings!
Probably HALF of TIFFANY’S customers are CHINESE!
Whenever they say the word “immigrant”, they really mean illegal alien.
Which means Gu is an anchor baby...
which means she is not a real American...
which means she should be deported. /spit.
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