Nathan Chen reportedly gets slammed on Chinese social media after winning gold

Gold medalist Nathan Chen, of the US, poses after the boys’s free skate program throughout the determine skating occasion on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing.

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Utah native Nathan Chen, who has been one of many greatest tales of the 2022 Olympic Winter Video games in Beijing after delivering on the expectation that he would win gold in within the males’s determine skating particular person occasion, is reportedly getting blasted on the Chinese language social media web site Weibo for being a “traitor.”

In line with a narrative within the New York Publish by Elizabeth Karpen, Chen, whose mother and father met in Beijing (his mom is from town, in line with the story), has been known as “too white” and been instructed to “get out of China” on Weibo, which is China’s equal of Twitter.

“It means the world to have the ability to be right here,” Chen is quoted as saying within the story. “My mother grew up in Beijing. … And naturally, my dad spent lots of time in Beijing as nicely.”

Karpen’s story notes how two different Chinese language American athletes on the Video games, freestyle skier Eileen Gu and girls’s determine skater Zhu Yi, are being handled on Weibo throughout the Olympics.

Each are competing for China, and Gu has been handled like a nationwide hero after she gained gold, whereas Zhu struggled throughout competitors and has been instructed to “return to America” and that she is “too American.”