The experiment to internationalize Chinese sports has not sat easily with fiercely nationalist fans who are watching the foreign-born athletes closely. When everything goes well, as it has with Gu, viewers accept them with pride. But one slip-up, in competition or elsewhere, and the attempt to straddle the line between nations can become perilous.
“Naturalized athletes are a shortcut — a contingency plan — for the host country to catch up and improve performance in a particular field,” said Sean Wang, a Beijing-based sports commentator.The search, Wang said, has focused primarily on athletes of Chinese descent because “for the average Chinese, it might be too much to swallow if we had a national team entirely of non-Chinese-looking faces, especially during Winter Games on home soil.
While naturalization is common across competitive sports in many other countries — and plenty of Americans have competed for the countries of their parents — the practice is relatively new in China. But winter sports presented a new set of challenges. The small communities of skaters and skiers were not enough of a pool for locally trained talent. In November 2018, China’s sports administration called on winter sports schools and associations to relax restrictions on nationality to encourage overseas Chinese and foreigners to take part in competitions.Retired Chinese figure skater Chen Lu launched an international hunt for talent that ended up bringing four U.S.
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didn’t half the US just do the same shit, if not worse, to Simone Biles when she pulled out? Lol
Cos they only did it for the yuan
'We're going to use all that rhetoric we have to make them look like the bad guys on the world stage' - CNN national correspondent Kylie Atwood on US Govt smear campaign against China
放屁。 我就是朱易的粉丝，我希望她尽快走出这次失误，积极备战下次比赛。 到底是谁揪着她的失败不放？是美联社、纽约时报、cnn、bbc、华盛顿邮报。 还是那么句话，你们做媒体的，同时也做个人行不行？
即使她们失败，中国人也喜欢他们全部！
Just like in the US and Europe But since you are sinophobic you make a big deal about China doing the same thing.
bullshit
This Fake news made by TWP!
Any way...
Another US 'evidence' on Xinjiang force labour: China is making this Xinjiang athlete Ahenear Adake running in circle.
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纽约时报的鼻子比雪橇还长 脸皮比城墙还厚
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