When asked last night about this Asian country and why she represents them internationally instead of the US, the athlete rubbed her fingers together in the universal symbol for money.
Eileen Gu
ESPN gave the ESPY for “Breakthrough Athlete of the Year” to Eileen Gu, the skier who grew up in San Francisco, is a current student at Stanford, but renounced her U.S. citizenship to complete for China at the Olympics last year. pic.twitter.com/3EwdtI1o9D
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 21, 2022
Eileen Gu’s ESPY award win sparks outrage
Eileen Gu won the ESPY award for the “Breakthrough Athlete of the Year” and some people were not happy about it.
Gu is an American-born skier who competed for China in the Beijing Olympics. Her father is American and her mother is Chinese. She won the gold medal in women’s freestyle big air — and cashed in to the tune of an estimated tens of millions of dollars in Chinese endorsement deals in the process.
Gu winning the award, which was determined by a fan vote, sparked outrage on social media. The other nominees were Ja Morant, Jonathan Taylor and Trinity Rodman, Dennis Rodman’s daughter who stars in the NWSL.
“Eileen Gu wins ESPY’s first Benedict Arnold Award,” tweeted Baylor University philosophy professor Francis Beckwith.
Wrote the conservative website the Daily Caller: “ESPN just gave an ESPY for “Breakout Athlete” to Eileen Gu, who chose to compete for communist China rather than Team USA during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Maybe we should give an award like that to American athletes who don’t support China.” – Source
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