2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing

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getready

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Shaolian said:
I don't get why these western MSM bumpkins are so worked up over artificial snow. Who cares, as long as they don't melt!
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I saw the report Beijing will be fist winter Olympics with 100% artificial snow. But I saw a tweet says pyeongchang had like 90% artificial snow. So basically they are making a fuss over only 10% more artificial snow. Wtf
 
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getready

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Crang said:
Nope. Funny thing is China and Korea participates in sledding but not Japan whereas in ski jump only Japan and not China or Korea.

You can bet China is developing its ski jump program though. I expect to see it in 2026 Milano Cortina
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Ski jumping is demanding on body weight. There seem to be an issue with maintaining skinny light physique for this sports and abit of controversy in the sports. I saw a few of those athletes are quite close to being anorexic
 
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weig2000

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Petrolicious88 said:
When Gu said she’s 100% Chinese when she’s in China and 100% American when’s she’s in America, she’s 100% correct. She got the best of both countries. And her case is somewhat unique among Asian Americans.

She grew up in the US but spent every summer in China. Her mom’s side of the family is likely well off and she had reasons to go back to China every year. On the contrary if your life is significantly better in America, then you are less likely to have significant attachments to your home country, let along go back every year.

The biggest mentor in her entire life has been her mother; her parents likely divorced when she was very young. It’s even possible that her parents were never even married. Up to this point, her dad has not made a single appearance. Plenty Asian parents are tiger moms, not many raises their kid like Gu’s mom.

At this same time she’s did most of her training in the US. Will be going to Stanford, and likely marry an American. Her future mentors will likely be Americans as well. What she studies and career she’s chooses outside of skiing will also affect which country she gravitate towards when skiing is over.

So yea, she’s a product of both worlds. But As China becomes a wealthy developed country, Gu is an example of how future Chinese Americans will actually want to rebuild their ties with China
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Just want to emphasize that China has invested a lot in her training, in terms of facilities, coaching and competition opportunities. Those investments are beyond what her mother or parents can provide. She got sponsorship deals in China even before she decided to represent China. Guess what I'm trying to say is that she is very talented and her mom has been great, but she is where she is today also because China has deliberately invested in her. She would not have gotten the same opportunity if she was to represent the US. China's made the investment because the successful bidding of Winter Olympic in 2015, and since then they have launched programs to identify and groom winter sports talents both inside and outside China because China traditionally is not strong in winter sports. For outside China, they prefer those with talents and Chinese heritage

Previously, the story was simpler: she was very talented and her mom has been cultivating her since she was little, and because their connections with China the Chinese sports authority found her and convinced her to represent China in Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. I bought into this story and but now think it's a bit more complicated than that.
 
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yungho

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9dashline said:
Nathan Chen is a race hanjian plain and simple.

Gu on the other hand being half mixed, could at least argueably be claimed by either side as one of their own. But as we've seen White America does not accept Gu as one of their own, and like we have seen with Obama they rejected him and ran into the embraces of Trump...
Going a little more back in US history, for a period of time a 7/8th white man who had 1/8th black blood was still considered a black man for the purposes of sufferage, discrimination and segregation...

So even from America's own standards, Gu is much more Chinese than she could ever be American.

Therefore, Gu is not a traitor to America but Nathan Chen did betray the entire Chinese people and his heritage and ancestors to simp for a racists Anglo White regime that wants nothing more than to subjegate, obliterate and genocide all things Chinese
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I don't really care if he competes for the US or not. The key issue is the double standard applied here that the author is either willingly or blissfully ignorant of.
 
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9dashline said:
Nathan Chen is a race hanjian plain and simple.

Gu on the other hand being half mixed, could at least argueably be claimed by either side as one of their own. But as we've seen White America does not accept Gu as one of their own, and like we have seen with Obama they rejected him and ran into the embraces of Trump...
Going a little more back in US history, for a period of time a 7/8th white man who had 1/8th black blood was still considered a black man for the purposes of sufferage, discrimination and segregation...

So even from America's own standards, Gu is much more Chinese than she could ever be American.

Therefore, Gu is not a traitor to America but Nathan Chen did betray the entire Chinese people and his heritage and ancestors to simp for a racists Anglo White regime that wants nothing more than to subjegate, obliterate and genocide all things Chinese
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Has he express anti-prc views?
 
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