Winter Olympics

vinnyt77

All about the ski jumping IMO 👍

Homegrove

Could not give a fuck.

alistair

Completely passed me by. Couldn’t care less

bosstrabs

rhouses Definite honey. Peculiar she gave up her US citizenship to become Chinese. What’s the Chinese media saying about it, Dave?

Almost like my friend’s wife who moved to Pakistan after living in India for 10 years.

Wait, how is Eileen Gu “Almost like my friend’s wife who moved to Pakistan after living in India for 10 years”?

This might be the most Rhouses thing you’ve ever posted. 😆

seanc80

Dave sounding like one of the Nina Kraviz fanboys here

hugopal

rhouses Definite honey. Peculiar she gave up her US citizenship to become Chinese. What’s the Chinese media saying about it, Dave?

I read her wiki and even though by law China does not allow dual citizenship for those over 18 and forces those to rescind their second nationality or else lose their Chinese citizenship, it does not seem that Gu has actually rescinded her US citizenship necessarily:

“Gu did not answer a reporter’s question regarding her status as a U.S. citizen at the time she changed national representation.[32] At present, there has been no evidence of her renouncing her U.S. citizenship per the U.S. Treasury Department’s Quarterly Publication of Individuals Who Have Chosen to Expatriate”

“For a time, her profile on the Red Bull sponsored athletes website also included the claim that she had renounced U.S. citizenship upon naturalization, but this information was removed when The Wall Street Journal inquired regarding its accuracy.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Gu

Given that she personally met Xi Jinping prior to obtaining Chinese citizenship at 15, I wonder if Xi hasn’t secretly granted her an exemption from the Chinese anti dual citizenship law due to her being a sports star.

Mad_Cyril

hugopal Given that she personally met Xi Jinping prior to obtaining Chinese citizenship at 15, I wonder if Xi hasn’t secretly granted her an exemption from the Chinese anti dual citizenship law due to her being a sports star.

Or maybe she blew him off?

bosstrabs

Thanks for answering Rhouses questions, Hugo, so I can concentrate on the more important matter of calling him the biggest fucknuckle to ever bestride the subcontinent.

Hursty

Absolutely love the Winter Olympics, always have for some reason. So many great sports, from Skeleton to speed skating, all the skiing events and now all the new freestyle stuff, can’t wait!

Shame it’s in China

Amps

Hursty Shame it’s in China

I’m at the point where I pretty much despise all major world powers, so it no longer makes any odds, may as well have it in North Korea, they’re all as bad as each other.

Along_the_Wire

Snowboarding and skiing for me.

Amps

I’ll pretty much watch all of it bar the ice skating.

hugopal

Amps may as well have it in North Korea, they’re all as bad as each other

they’re not though.

Amps

hugopal I don’t think there’s much in it.

hugopal

Amps by all means go and emigrate to North Korea then.

At least we’ll all be relieved of your constant streams of twitter bilge on here.

Hursty

hugopal Hugo’s way of saying he likes you 😂

Along_the_Wire

hugopal At least we’ll all be relieved of your constant streams of twitter bilge on here.

Hark at you, the king of absolute fucking bilge!

Amps

Hursty I’m in!

hugopal

Amps I’m in!

I suppose when you live on Merseyside that North Korea is still a fairly attractive alternative.

rhouses

Had read most of that and it seemed quite grey, but thanks, @hugopal. I’m assuming that meeting with Xi allowed her some flexibility.

@bosstrabs That’s a bit of my prejudice, borderline racism, in action. Moving to a totalitarian communist country with hardcore censorship laws (China) and moving to a religious fundamentalist country with archaic blasphemy laws (Pakistan), by choice, seems to be quite a peculiar decision to make.

hugopal

rhouses Moving to a totalitarian communist country with hardcore censorship laws (China) and moving to a religious fundamentalist country with archaic blasphemy laws (Pakistan), by choice, seems to be quite a peculiar decision to make.

I understood the point you were trying to make with that earlier anecdote, but Gu hasn’t actually moved to China - she has Chinese citizenship and represents China at the Olympics, but still very much lives in the US.

rhouses

hugopal Sure. Wonder what the implications are on her earnings?

hugopal

rhouses Sure. Wonder what the implications are on her earnings?

Maybe she was trying to maximise total earnings through partly appealing to audiences in both countries and thus increasing her advertising opportunities?