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Gu is golden: Eileen Gu's dominant halfpipe victory for China caps stellar Olympics [AOL]
aol ^ | February 17, 2022 | JAY BUSBEE

Posted on 02/18/2022 11:05:09 AM PST by MarvinStinson

The legend of Eileen Gu continues to grow in China.

Gu, the American-born freestyle skier now competing for China, had already won a gold and a silver medal. Friday morning, under an ice-blue sky and in surprisingly warm temperatures of 12 degrees Fahrenheit, Gu dropped into the halfpipe for her third and final event of the Games.

Two runs later, she’d captured her second gold of the Olympics, and her stature in China had grown immeasurably.

In China, Gu is the face of these Games, her image and likeness appearing on billboards, in commercials, and on the omnipresent official Beijing Olympic shopping bags. She’s a hero to millions of girls in China.

But with her growing image has come controversy, with many American critics questioning her decision to ski for the country of her mother’s birth, along with unanswered questions about the truth of her citizenship status. Gu has resolutely declined to answer all questions about her citizenship or other geopolitical issues at these Games.

Instead, Gu has done her talking on skis.

Gu considers halfpipe her best event, and in qualifying, she proved it, recording the best score of all competitors and earning the right to ski last in the three-run finals. She seemed to lose a bit of momentum on her first run, not quite carving up the sky the way she has in previous events. But even that was enough to earn her first place after the initial round; her score of 93.25 drew raucous cheers from the heavily Chinese fans gathered at the base of the halfpipe.

Her second run was even better, earning a 95.25. That held up for the rest of the event, and Gu won her second gold of the Games.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
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To: qaz123

Yep, our young people are dunces made gay in the fifth grade definition by a diet of Harry Potter and PC propaganda.


41 posted on 02/18/2022 11:35:27 AM PST by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: SJackson
Winning medals for an openly hostile nation when you hold American citizenship is Treason.
42 posted on 02/18/2022 11:36:34 AM PST by KC_Lion
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To: All
She'll end up as arm candy and bed warmer for some CCP big wig.

And yes, for any CCP trolls out there I just said she's a whore.

43 posted on 02/18/2022 11:37:21 AM PST by Turbo Pig ('To close with and destroy the enemy")
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To: Turbo Pig

You are correct. She is an expensive whore, too.

She should be denied a student visa to attend Stanford.
Let her study in Beijeng, since she loves it so much.


44 posted on 02/18/2022 11:38:35 AM PST by rbmillerjr
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To: EEGator

100%


45 posted on 02/18/2022 11:39:23 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Clemenza

Yes....and....take the cannoli


46 posted on 02/18/2022 11:39:41 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Precisely that split loyalty is why the founders excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause.

Outstanding point!

47 posted on 02/18/2022 11:41:36 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: MarvinStinson

Goo is a CCP stooge.


48 posted on 02/18/2022 11:41:37 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Gay State Conservative
So,she could present an official renunciation of US citizenship to Red Chinese officials,thus allowing her to be declared a Chinese citizen and then later turn around and cite the exceptions I've mentioned and thus be allowed to maintain US citizenship.

Quite possible. Or China simply made an exception and made her a citizen absent renunciation. They wouldn't care, and clearly the Olympics don't care either. The irony, she's not a dual citizen athlete competing for another nation because they can earn a place on a team. She could have competed and likely won for the US. I've read she made over $30 million in 2021 largely from endorsements in China. Will be more this year. Doubt she could earn that as a US medal winner. At least she'll pay tax here.

49 posted on 02/18/2022 11:42:13 AM PST by SJackson (If I'm elected President ... we're going to cure cancer, Brandon, June 2019)
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To: MarvinStinson

Gu is a traitor to America. Same as Jane “Commie” Fonda sitting on a North Vietnamese AAA piece and laughing her @$$ off.


50 posted on 02/18/2022 11:43:02 AM PST by twister881
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To: EEGator

It’s weird how there is zero info about her father. One would think a guy would be quite proud to claim her as a daughter. Her mother never claimed to have been married

My only other thought is that it was a married man or someone else who simply couldn’t come forward


51 posted on 02/18/2022 11:44:56 AM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

It’s definitely odd.


52 posted on 02/18/2022 11:45:48 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator
She likes white guys.

The sort who would marry one and then have an affair with a Chinaman.

53 posted on 02/18/2022 11:46:51 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Gay State Conservative
Though I'd see how many Americans competed for other countries this year. Interesting that out of 16, 5 competed for China. Obviously China made some exception to their citizenship laws. I doubt Gu went though the difficult and expensive process of renouncing citizenship. Not to mention the difficulty of returning to the US. 16 compeitors didn't. Just China disrespecting other nations/organizations. In this case the Olympic Committee, not the US. Wonder how many of the "Chinese" athletes came from countries other than the US.

Hailey Kops, figure skater for Israel

Isabel Atkin, freestyle skier for Great Britain

Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian, monobobber for Jamaica

Jieruimi Shimisi, formerly known as Jeremy Smith, ice hockey player for China

John-Henry Kruger, speed skater for Hungary

Katie Vesterstein, alpine skier for Estonia

Louie Vito, snowboarder for Italy

Madison Woo, hockey player for China

Nathan Crumpton, skeleton for American Samoa

Rebekah Kolstad, hockey player for China

Sarah Escobar, alpine skier for Ecuador

Seamus O’Connor, snowboarder for Ireland

Tim Koleto, ice dancer for Japan

Zoe Atkin, freestyle skier for Great Britain

Zhu Yi, figure skater for China

54 posted on 02/18/2022 11:51:31 AM PST by SJackson (If I'm elected President ... we're going to cure cancer, Brandon, June 2019)
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To: twister881
You are going to need to get over yourself and take a chill pill.
Gu is Jane Fonda huh?
On what planet is that?
55 posted on 02/18/2022 11:55:00 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SJackson

Almost the entire Israeli 2020 olympic baseball team was American. People are upset because this is about China. Bread and circuses all around. Corporate america sold out years ago, this is no different.


56 posted on 02/18/2022 12:03:00 PM PST by Theoria
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To: MarvinStinson

Mata Hari … what thin slippery character.


57 posted on 02/18/2022 12:09:27 PM PST by dodger
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To: SJackson
My guess is that it violates the International Olympic Committee's rules for a country to claim that a particular athlete is a citizen when their standard citizenship procedures aren't followed. Of course China sidesteps any rules that it doesn't like.

When Red China's involved you *never* know which end is up!

58 posted on 02/18/2022 12:18:19 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: nickcarraway; Lurkinanloomin

“We have plenty of people born here and here for generations that are traitors.”

Yep, the enemy within is far worse. I sadly think most immigrants are more appreciative on an instinctive level of America’s founding values than half of our “naturally born” citizens.

But there’s no question there are also immigrants with split loyalties.

We need to be vigilant of both - the native and the important traitors.


59 posted on 02/18/2022 12:25:17 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: rbmillerjr

Stanford is good in computer science.


60 posted on 02/18/2022 12:25:37 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why he would)
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