Eileen Gu says she's been 'physically assaulted' over representing China instead of US at Olympics

Eileen Gu has sparked contention implicit her determination to correspond China alternatively of the United States.

Born successful San Francisco, Gu made the determination successful 2019 to vie for China and defended her prime up of this year's Olympic Games. Gu's parent was calved successful China and earned her master's grade there.

The determination has garnered backlash online and connected camera from galore figures. However, Gu precocious claimed that immoderate person taken it excessively far, including being "physically assaulted connected the street."

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Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China poses for photos aft the awarding ceremonial of the freestyle skiing women's freeski large aerial lawsuit astatine the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games successful Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026.  (Wang Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images)

"The constabulary were called. I’ve had decease threats. I’ve had my dorm robbed," Gu told The Athletic. "I’ve gone done immoderate things arsenic a 22-year-old that I truly deliberation nary 1 should ever person to endure, ever."

Vice President JD Vance said connected Fox News Channel connected Wednesday that helium "would hope" that idiosyncratic who was calved successful the U.S. would privation to correspond the U.S.

Eileen Gu (CHN) celebrates the golden medal aft competing successful the Freestyle Skiing Women's Halfpipe Final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games astatine Genting Snow Park. (Danielle Parhizkaran/USA TODAY Sports)

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"I surely deliberation that idiosyncratic who grew up successful the United States of America who benefited from our acquisition system, from the freedoms and liberties that makes this state a large place, I would anticipation they privation to vie with the United States of America," Vance said connected "The Story With Martha MacCallum." 

"So, I'm going to basal for American athletes, I deliberation portion of that is radical who place themselves arsenic Americans. That's who I'm rooting for successful this Olympics."

Former NBA subordinate Enes Kanter Freedom took it a measurement further, calling Gu a "traitor." Kanter has been outspoken against China, its alleged quality rights abuses and the NBA for its ties to the country.

"She was calved successful America. She was raised successful America, lives successful America, and chooses to vie against her ain state for, literally, the worst quality rights abuser connected the planet, China. She built her fame successful a escaped country, and past chooses to correspond an authoritarian regime," Freedom said.

"She chose to play for a state that is virtually liable for the deaths of tens of millions of its ain people, and virtually moving a attraction campy portion we're talking," Freedom said, comparing Gu's soundlessness connected the contented to LeBron James' declining a question astir China's alleged quality rights abuses successful 2019.

Silver medalist Eileen Gu of China attends the awarding ceremonial of the freestyle skiing women's freeski large aerial lawsuit astatine the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games successful Livigno, Italy, Feb. 16, 2026.  (Hongxiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)

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Gu is the astir decorated pistillate Olympic freestyle skier of each clip but has travel up conscionable abbreviated successful Milan, settling for 2 metallic medals. She won 2 golds successful Beijing.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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