Chinese Olympian Eileen Gu says she's happy Peng Shuai is "out there doing her thing again." Except Peng literally announced the opposite: her retirement — and did so likely under duress. Gu has sought to avoid politics, but her comments align with Beijing's.
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1490922195534573568
Eileen Gu is an amazing athlete who won gold with that amazing left double 1620. She also towed the Party line on Peng Shuai. In many ways we should not expect such young athletes to comment on human rights. But an 18-year-old knows what a rape accusation is and Gu gaslit Peng.
A lot of Olympic athletes switch country representation. This happens. The reason why Eileen Gu is getting so much attention is because she decided to rep a country where we've had a steady stream of Uyghurs the last few years escape and talk about the horrors of detention camps.
It's "toed the Party line" not "towed." 😣 Someone sought to embarrass me and yep, they totally did.
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