18-year old Eileen Gu is a cute little thing and a pretty good skier, but she made many Americans very cross when she took her Olympic medal-winning potential to China just before the Beijing Winter Olympics.
With a Chinese mother and an American father, she was in a position to choose who she wanted to represent, despite having lived and trained in America her whole life, and not actually having Chinese citizenship, which is technically an Olympic requirement. But Americans just couldn't believe that she would "betray" her country in this way.
Until it came out that little Ms. Gu has made C$40 million in Chinese trade endorsements and sponsorship deals over the last year, and will probably make the same again this year if she does half as well as expected.
Suddenly, her claims that she just wants "to inspire young girls in China" start to ring a little hollow.
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