Alysa Liu vs Eileen Gu: How two Chinese American stars wound up on opposite sides of an Olympic proxy war
Sports,Winter Olympics,Olympics,United States,China,California,Women,Chinese Communist Party,Foreign Affairs
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Just minutes after Alysa Liu won a historic Olympic figure skating gold for the U.S., her story as the child of a Chinese American immigrant who fled communism spread like wildfire across social media.
Almost immediately, that discourse evolved, in many circles, into comparisons to another Chinese American superstar who has dominated headlines in Milan Cortina — American-born Team China skier Eileen Gu.
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