[cardcrimson]

Yikes, her answer was pretty terrible. Would hope sports journalists would just keep asking only about that until she actually answers. Wonder when we'll get some clarity.

Why is clarity important to us? Why does she have to answer? It's her life. 

Wondering how many people here hold dual citizenships. I get that China doesn't typically allow it, but there are always exceptions.  As for every Chinese athlete renouncing their former country's citizenship, wasn't there a post earlier that stated that didn't appear to be the case? 

Here's an article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ol...story.html

"Like other foreign-born athletes representing China at the Beijing Games, Jake Chelios will play under a Chinese name. In any official Olympic context, he will be Jieke Kailiaosi.  “My new name? I love it. It’s cool. It’s part of the experience. Since I’ve been over here, everything’s kind of new for me, and that’s the exciting part about playing overseas,” Chelios said at Saturday’s practice."

Feel free to crush Jake, er Jieke, as well.

Yeah, as already pointed out, if Jieke's only chance at an Olympics roster is with China, that's a much different situation than Gu's. Jieke is also not a big star getting tens of millions of dollars in promotional $$$ from Chinese companies. So the situations aren't really comparable.

Gu doesn't personally owe me shit. But I don't understand why you think she is beyond criticism.... we're on a sports message board, that's what happens here.

Where did I type that she is beyond criticism? 

So help me understand. If an American athlete isn't good enough to represent the US, then it's okay for them to represent another country, but if they are good enough to represent the US, it's abhorrent if they don't. Gotta love the hypocrisy.

FWIW, Gu is half Chinese, half American. Her American dad, for some reason, is nowhere to be found and hasn't been in her life. Apparently, she's been raised by her Chinese mom and her Chinese grandmother and spends a good bit of her time living in China. So you're correct, that the situations aren't really comparable with her and many of the other American athletes competing for other nations; she has heritage and deep ties to the country for which she competes.

As far as the money, look at it this way: Gu is bringing American capitalistic ideals to communist China. Wasn't there a sports movie built around "Show me the money?" . . . .

[cardcrimson]

Yikes, her answer was pretty terrible. Would hope sports journalists would just keep asking only about that until she actually answers. Wonder when we'll get some clarity.

Why is clarity important to us? Why does she have to answer? It's her life. 

Wondering how many people here hold dual citizenships. I get that China doesn't typically allow it, but there are always exceptions.  As for every Chinese athlete renouncing their former country's citizenship, wasn't there a post earlier that stated that didn't appear to be the case? 

Here's an article: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/ol...story.html

"Like other foreign-born athletes representing China at the Beijing Games, Jake Chelios will play under a Chinese name. In any official Olympic context, he will be Jieke Kailiaosi.  “My new name? I love it. It’s cool. It’s part of the experience. Since I’ve been over here, everything’s kind of new for me, and that’s the exciting part about playing overseas,” Chelios said at Saturday’s practice."

Feel free to crush Jake, er Jieke, as well.

Yeah, as already pointed out, if Jieke's only chance at an Olympics roster is with China, that's a much different situation than Gu's. Jieke is also not a big star getting tens of millions of dollars in promotional $$$ from Chinese companies. So the situations aren't really comparable.

Gu doesn't personally owe me shit. But I don't understand why you think she is beyond criticism.... we're on a sports message board, that's what happens here.

Where did I type that she is beyond criticism? 

So help me understand. If an American athlete isn't good enough to represent the US, then it's okay for them to represent another country, but if they are good enough to represent the US, it's abhorrent if they don't. Gotta love the hypocrisy.

FWIW, Gu is half Chinese, half American. Her American dad, for some reason, is nowhere to be found and hasn't been in her life. Apparently, she's been raised by her Chinese mom and her Chinese grandmother and spends a good bit of her time living in China. So you're correct, that the situations aren't really comparable with her and many of the other American athletes competing for other nations; she has heritage and deep ties to the country for which she competes.

As far as the money, look at it this way: Gu is bringing American capitalistic ideals to communist China. Wasn't there a sports movie built around "Show me the money?" . . . .