It is never appropriate to have dual citizenship where you throw out the U.S. and perform for an alternate country. The hell with dual citizenship, it is one or the other, you can’t have both. That is like playing for the Seattle Seahawks when your team didn’t make the playoffs, so you jump sides.
Some athletes compete for another country because they can’t make the cut, and that is laughable. Can someone have three citizenships? Does that mean they can perform with whatever country they want? This is wrong and not common sense. All IMO.
“The champion freestyle skier, who competes for China, cashed in on a jaw-dropping $6.6 million from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year – a hefty sum that was shared with fellow US-born Olympian figure skater Zhu Yi, according to the country’s budget, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The champion freestyle skier, who competes for China, was paid a jaw-dropping $6.6 million by the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year – a hefty sum she shared with fellow US-born Olympian figure skater Zhu Yi.
The fiscal report shows that the star athletes were also slated to pocket a jaw-dropping $14 million, or nearly 100 million yuan, over the past three years from the sports bureau.
The latest chunk was tied to qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics, the outlet reported.”