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Posted on 02/16/2026 11:47:56 PM PST by KingofZion
*** Gu, arguably the most polarizing Olympian of her era, was unable to defend her gold medal in Monday’s freestyle ski big air event. But she rallied from seventh place to win the silver medal with a stellar final jump, becoming the most decorated freestyle skier in Olympic history.
*** As Gu celebrated after her final jump, the NBC commentators gushed, not even a little ironically, “Who isn’t an Eileen Gu fan?”
Gu certainly has her fans, and 2.3 million followers on Instagram. But she has plenty of critics. She created a firestorm seven years ago when, at age 15, she declared she would compete for China, her mother’s birth country, despite having been raised in San Francisco and competed for the United States as a young skier. Four years ago, as the youngest freestyle Olympic champion, she became the face of the Beijing Games.
***She’s been called a traitor for refusing to represent her birth country, the United States. Gu pledges allegiance to no country, trying to sidestep the dispute by saying, “When I’m in the U.S. I’m American, but when I’m in China, I’m Chinese.”
In truth, she’s that most American of entities: an unashamed capitalist who seems intent on making the most money she can.
*** More controversial is the recent revelation that the Chinese government has paid her, along with American born figure skater Beverly Zhu, $14 million over the past three years. The information appeared online in 2025 in a public government budget; the athletes’ names were later deleted, along with ensuing social media comments. Berkeley-based Chinese Digital Times called it a “wave of cross-platform censorship,” scrubbing comments that expressed concern over the exorbitant taxpayer expenditure for Chinese-American athletes.
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Interesting to see that China takes it one step further than the old East Germany. Not content with spending millions on selecting and training their own athletes they buy ready made athletes of Chinese heritage from other countries.
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Traitor
EFF Her along with all the scumbags on the USA teams speaking out against America.
Strip her of her US citizenship and deport her to China
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