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Posted on 02/14/2026 9:53:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
American-born Olympian Eileen Gu scored millions from China in 2025 – a staggering payout exposed in a public budget before officials quickly scrubbed her name from the record, according to a report.
The champion freestyle skier, who competes for China, cashed in on a jaw-dropping $6.6 million from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year – a hefty sum that was shared with fellow US-born Olympian figure skater Zhu Yi, according to the country’s budget, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Yi – who renounced her US citizenship – also performs under China’s flag.
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I thought that to compete for a country’s team you had to be a *citizen* of that country. And IIRC Red China doesn’t allow dual citizenship. Did this girl renounce her US citizenship????
Eileen Gu’s mother is a quintessential post-modern, post-marxist, perfectly materialist Chinese woman.
She created Eileen Gu, literally as a test-tube baby, to achieve elite status in all important material fields - appearance, athletics, intelligence, material wealth. She then managed Eileen Gu’s environment between the USA and China, to maximize the outcomes of each.
And she succeeded.
This is a real life version of what happened in the first episode of iSpy, only with a world classrunner.
Technically no as you’ll see in the World Baseball Classic. Stuart Fairchild (Seattle, WA - Wake Forest) of Cleveland will play for Taiwan (mother born there, moved to the US at 12) because he is eligible to play for them. The difference is China pays the Olympians.
I don’t see a reason why they would that much.
She’s screwed, only got a silver. We won’t be seeing her nor hearing from her once she gets back “home”.
The good news... She got a medal, so an outright execution is now likely off the table.
Some livwe by the creed what money can’t buy I don’t need.
She has refused to answer whether she renounced USA citizenship or not
We should renounce it for her
Fascinating stuff. I wonder if China allows its citizens? residents? persons? to read Marx.
They have successfully changed communism to allow wealthy communists. Billionaire communists are common.
They do not have the protections of the USA constitution. They do not have the welfare net of Social Security or workmen’s comp, or even actual socialized health care as in the UK.
But, because they work hard and have stolen freely from western civilization, as well as having been given significant western aid in the years since about 1976, they have raised the standard of living for a significant chunk of their population, using capitalist techniques.
They are a fascistic type of government, is the closest I can place them.
Remember when Olympians competed for a medal?
She wanted ten and they offered five?
“Olympic gold medalist Ailing “Eileen” Gu has been named grand marshal of the 2026 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade.”
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/21/eileen-gu-chinese-new-year-parade-grand-marshal/
Born here, switched allegiance to China, scored money, came back here to grab more attention. Chinatown SF should not have picked her!
She could have made far more off endorsements in the USA if she was a US athlete. But the last thing US corp sponsors want is controversy. And US public has soured on her.
So she screwed herself though probably laughing all the way to the bank.
She is a major contrast (not in a good way) to the type of athletes that attended Stanford with me. But that is true for most of the current student body
World Baseball Classic has different rules. One does not need to be a citizen of the other country, just have ancestry.
If they paid her that sum, why was it shared with another athlete? Surely not out of the goodness of her heart.
Forbes has her earning over $23 million this year alone, making her the 4th highest paid women in sports.
She has another shot at gold in the big air finals on Monday.
22 years old, already with 4 Olympic medals, still in school at Stanford, mega millions more coming up. Good for her.
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