Eileen Gu did not expect the level of controversy that resulted from her choosing to represent China rather than the United States at the Beijing Olympics, she said on Wednesday .
San Francisco-born Gu also faced controversy over her decision in 2019 to switch teams and represent China after years of competing for the US. Gu, who speaks fluent Mandarin and spent her summers in China but was raised in the US, said she was inspired to represent her mother's home country.
I think she already went back to the US.
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