Fame and fury: China’s wildly different reactions to US-born Olympians

Three US-born Olympians of Chinese descent have received starkly different receptions in China. Beijing (CNN)In the span of a week, three American-born athletes of Chinese descent have been thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Winter Olympics — to very different reactions in China.

All three were trained in the United States and are only a few years apart in age, but their paths diverged on the way to the Games: freestyle skier Eileen Gu and figure skater Zhu Yi chose to compete for China, while Nathan Chen, another figure skater, opted for Team USA.

Gu and Chen both won gold, […]

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