Thread by @Byron_Wan

In 2019, US-born Eileen Gu announced she would switch national affiliations and compete for China in 2022. 

Gu has signed with the IMG modeling agency, appeared in Vogue Hong Kong, and attended September’s Met Gala in New York. A Red Bull-sponsored

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wsj.com/articles/eilee…

documentary series, “Everyday Eileen,” is already online, and Tencent is distributing it in China. Her roster of sponsors — glittering for an Olympic rookie — includes Victoria’s Secret, Apple-owned Beats by Dre, Bank of China and China Mobile. Chinese media reports have

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lauded Gu’s skill in everything from piano and ballet to rock climbing. 🇨🇳 state media CCTV has called her “the perfect child next door.” 

Gu can significantly boost China’s typically modest Winter Games medal haul by herself.

Why does she still live in the US?

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Gu is profiting from both the US and Chinese markets while millions of Uyghurs, Hong Kong activists and Chinese dissidents — her compatriots as she’s now Chinese not American — are suffering. She’s knowingly glorifying the CCP regime instead of speaking out against it!!!

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🔻 I won’t be surprised if she appears in CCP propaganda singing the praise of the regime like this in the near future.

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Gu takes a stand against racism on social media (in the US) — how righteous! — but she declined to comment when asked about these human rights concerns (about China) — let’s not politicize sports.

Sounds like Lebron James...

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Let’s not forget IOC’s Thomas Bach and Dick Pound were Olympic athletes once... and how pathetic they are now.

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