Eileen Gu, a former member of Team USA who ditched America to compete as a member of the Chinese team, won Gold at the big air competition in Beijing:
Eileen Gu 🇨🇳: #Beijing2022 Olympic gold medal winner.
Gu, 18, won in the big air competition after landing a third and final run. Follow our live Olympics coverage: https://t.co/P7vzGRo8j8 pic.twitter.com/Uf63Tc02rj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 8, 2022
Here’s her winning jump:
Eileen Gu soared to victory in the women’s freeski big air competition at #Beijing2022 with a series of gravity-defying tricks.
In her final run, she landed a left double 1620 with a safety grab, a trick she’d never tried before in competition.https://t.co/tUQmy2aSx0 pic.twitter.com/G3y3Oc6aSj
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 8, 2022
And, boy, is NBC happy about it!
NBC giving way too much glowing coverage to defector Eileen Gu at these Olympics
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) February 8, 2022
Gu will return to the U.S. to attend Stanford:
Oh, of course she will come back to the US to attend Stanford 🙄
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) February 8, 2022
Oh, it got worse!
OMG … NBC really just fawning over her SAT scores! Give me a break!
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) February 8, 2022
It was 1580 for those curious:
lmao the announcers just gave us Eileen Gu’s SAT scores (1580)
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) February 8, 2022
To complete the propaganda victory, China made sure tennis star Peng Shuai was on hand to watch Gu compete:
Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai was on hand to watch China's Eileen Gu win #gold in the Big Air competition in #Beijing2022.
Peng could be seen in the stands wearing a black knit hat with the Olympic rings on them and a black coat with the Chinese flag https://t.co/93yjikXYZ8 pic.twitter.com/D2hVSfrV3e
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 8, 2022
And now Shuai goes into “quarantine”:
‘She was sitting there and we had the opportunity to talk and now she has to go to the quarantine, she told me, she will leave now the closed loop,’ International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said of Peng Shuai at the #BigAir Shougang https://t.co/5SPOZzKo6v
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 8, 2022
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And Gu was ready with what sounds like CCP-approved talking points:
#Gold medalist Eileen Gu, China's biggest star at #Beijing2022, said she was glad to hear of Peng Shuai's presence in the stands. ‘I’m really grateful that she's happy and healthy and out there doing her thing again,’ Gu said https://t.co/OavBS4JXmM
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 8, 2022
This is just embarassing:
Not gonna share the screenshot so I don't get suspended for copyright violations, but NBC's Mike Tirico gushing over the freestyle skiing venue in China as "visually stunning" when it used to be a steel mill in the middle of a dump is pretty pathetic. #Olympics #GenocideGames
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2022
Maybe a journo can ask Gu about the Uyghur concentration camps?
Also, Eileen Gu doesn't deserve a scintilla of support in the U.S. Yes, her roots are in China, but she willingly chose to give up her citizenship to represent a genocidal regime in the #GenocideGames, which means she's backing concentration camps. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2022
But that won’t happen:
Along with Mike Tirico, the freestyle skiing announcers are ready to canonize Gu and how great she is for China and the rest of the world.
What would be great is if she spoke out against the genocide and human rights violations going on in China. #GenocideGames #Olympics
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2022
NBC is showing Eileen Gu at the ski jump in a hell hole with towers that look like they belong a nuclear power plant in the background instead of figuring skating…or just about anything else. Figures. #GenocideGames #Olympics
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2022
Annnd NBC just showed IOC President Thomas Bach with Peng Shuai right behind Eileen Gu when celebrating her gold medal run in the freestyle skiing final.
China did this on purpose, just like with the Uyghur in the Opening Ceremony.
China is evil.
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2022
Eileen Gu has made a decision to side with a country engaging in a genocide and systemic suppression of free expression! Hope the money is worth it! #PengShuai https://t.co/MpL24iYFh9
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 8, 2022
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