There isn't.
2022 Olympic Winter Games Beijing
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There isn't.
Wait does this mean Indonesia, Japan etc all belong to China? Using retrograde logic.
#BharatCina
Most likely not. The Americans are now famous for munching on red bean buns taken from the canteen everywhere they go.
what about the great leap forward and cultural revolution. Thanks goodness the 1953-76 Mao is gone. the idea of motherland is complicated. US also helped China to fight the Japs on Chinese soil and shielded China from USSR nuclear threat. You have to take the history as a whole. So is it ok for Chinese Americans to compete for the US when the two countries were on friendlier terms?
Also, there are 5 other Chinese Americans on the figure skating/ice dancing teams. Why single out Chen? Because he won gold? So silver would have been fine? He had no idea what he was going to win.
To me these things are much simpler. Love my people. it's easy to follow and makes me happier.
finally, a gold medal is just that. it means little in the grand theme of things. I will stop arguing about these and go for a hike. It's probably better for the average Chinese people (meaning us) to do more participating in sports and less arguing who should win medals for which country.
I thought it was a Maltese athlete of American descent? Either way it is good that athletes are appreciating traditional Chinese food as well.
Captain of the Chinese National Hockey team wants his fellow Chinese Americans in all fields to heed the advice of salty incels and "Go Back to China".
China men only lost to Germany 2-3, and held Canada to 0-5. Pretty good actually.
Progress.
Now how do we watch Kunlun Red Star on Kontinental Hockey League?
EDIT: During the game, the TV production team only zoomed in on the Canadian players. Racist bastards
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I have to say it's extremely difficult to pull another Eileen Gu, even with his eventual Olympic Gold and everything else. Eileen Gu is so unique, both her circumstances and talents.
As I said a couple of times before in this thread, Eileen Gu was well-known in China before this Olympic, even before she decided to represent China. At the beginning, it was within the extreme sports community, then she gradually enlarged the circle of influence. There have been so many purposely-shot videos and films since she was a kid in China. These videos are circulated in the Chinese media now, further fanning the fervor around her. She also had a Weibo account wayback when, which was actually created by Lu Jian, the so-called father of China's ski resort industry. He even gave her the nickname "frog princess" (“青蛙公主”) on Weibo account, apparently a very popular one now. I kept thinking to myself that the marketing of Eileen Gu in China has been so long and so deliberate in the making. Give credit to her mother, bringing her daughter to China every year since she was a little child.
Nathan Chen's parents are obviously very smart and very successful in the US later on, but they were from a relatively humble roots (from Guangxi Province?). Eileen Gu's mother, Gu Yan, is someone entirely different in China. She grew up in Beijing, of a family of much better circumstances, graduated from one of China's two best universities (Peking University) and was with the school's speed skating team back then. When Eileen Gu won the gold medal last week, the Municipal Government of Beijing sent telegram of congratulations claiming Eileen Gu as Beijing resident. Even the Ministry of Transportation chimed in, sending in a letter of congratulations to (the former) Chief Engineer Feng, Eileen's maternal grandma. While these may sound funny, it does show how pluggedin Eileen's family is in China.
And then there is Eileen Gu herself, put aside her talents and interesting and intriguing stories, her outgoing personality, her character, and her Mandarin Chinese - not just fluent but perfect. All these have won her popularity with Chinese fans and Chinese in general--everyone can pick something from her background--in this age of social media.
It'll be difficult to imagine Nathan Chen, with all his Chineseness, could remotely pull an Eileen Gu. But then again, if he could have pulled a fraction of Eileen Gu, it would still be a phenomenal success.
There are a lot of uncertainties ahead of Eileen Gu's life, given how young she is and the treacherous relationship between China and the US. For now, it appears to be all good.
Fellow traitor and CBL Star turned coach Stephon Marbury congratulated the Chinese National Hockey Captain on the realization of his Chinese Dream and applauded his contribution to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since Marbury is of African American descent the Western media has wisely left him alone, for now.