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{调取该文章的TAG关键词}|Eileen Gu Should Not be Lightening Rod for Geopolitics( 二 )


Above all, the spirit of the international sporting competition is to overcome division and embrace solidarity. Apart from recruiting athletes from overseas, China is also an exporter of athletes. At the Tokyo Summer Olympics last year, five of the top 10 women table tennis players were born in China, but only two of them represented China.
The Fox News host’s criticism of Gu is bigoted at best and racist at worst. During the coronavirus pandemic, some haters told Asians to go back to their home country. Now Gu is representing her mom’s home country and they are lambasting her for that.
Gu was not hesitant to hit back. She described those who attacked her as either “uneducated” or lacking “empathy to empathize with a good heart.” She may be blunt but she said the truth. Based on public information, she did not use U.S. taxpayers’ money for her training. She went to a private school. Her mother and grandmother invested heavily in terms of money and time and nurtured her in her formative years.
Her primary motivation to compete for China was to encourage girls and women to enjoy snow and ice sports in China. Not many Chinese participated in winter sports. Only a small fraction of people residing in northeastern China practiced skating and few did skiing. “When I first skied in China, there was a very small circle of skiers. There were less than 100 freestyle skiers in the whole country. It seemed everyone who did freestyle skiing knew everyone else. Now the circle has grown exponentially,” she told a reporter of a Chinese website.
“I grew up together with China’s skiing sport. To promote the sport in China and encourage more young people to love the sport is one of my main goals in life… I want to share my passions for skiing with them. I wish many people would enjoy skiing and see it as a way of relaxation and knowing ourselves, others, the world culture and feeling the nature,” she said.  
“I have decided to compete for China in the 2022 Winter Olympics,” Gu announced in a 2019 tweet. “The opportunity to help inspire millions of young people where my mom was born, during the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help promote the sport I love.”
To Get Rich is GloriousThere are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Gu is a darling in the eyes of millions of different Chinese people.
Young people like her because of her approach to sports – “have fun” and “enjoy it” -- as she repeatedly told the audience. She has many hobbies, including but not limited to cross-country running, football, basketball and horse-riding. In the past, the term athlete in China was often linked to endurance and even sufferings. She has redefined the term singlehandedly. She is an emerging generation of athletes in China: bold, frank and eloquent.
Middle-class parents like her because they identify with her mom’s parenting style. Gu attended the summer mathematics school in Beijing, which resonates with tons of middle-class parents. Her mom said: “Ten days of extracurricular learning in Beijing equals a year of schooling in the United States.”
【{调取该文章的TAG关键词}|Eileen Gu Should Not be Lightening Rod for Geopolitics】Gu has cashed in on her popularity. Riding the wave of her surging popularity in China, Gu has become the second most wealthy athlete only after legendary basketball player Yao Ming. Gu’s commercial value may go even higher if she collects more medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
If that is her secondary motivation to compete for that, then there is nothing wrong with making money at any corner of the world as long as it is legal. As China’s former statesman Deng Xiaoping put it, to get rich is glorious. Deng’s maxim lifted China out of absolute poverty after the country had been stuck in a class struggle for decades. Gu does not break any law either in America or China.

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