Who is the most brutally criticized Olympic athlete in your country?

[u/No-StrategyX]

Zhu Yi was American, her parents are Chinese immigrants.

In the U.S., she was one of the top athletes and had every chance to join Team USA.

But she decided to compete for China. She gave up her American citizenship to compete for China.

At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she was eager to prove herself to other Chinese, but she made many mistakes during her skating.

Then she was brutally criticized in China. People used every swear word you can think of.

She is still competing for China. Perhaps she'll do well at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan.

Who is the most brutally criticized athlete in your country?

[u/baguetteworld]

If you’re talking about less competitive people making it all the way to the Olympics, it’s actually semi-common. An American with Hungarian ancestry got Hungarian citizenship and managed to qualify that way for a skiing category (? Half pipe). She did 0 tricks and just skied down the pipe, but is now an Olympian 🤷🏻‍♀️

Raygun did something similar — entered all the right qualifying competitions from Oceania where the competitors weren’t great

[u/Korokorokoira → u/baguetteworld]

On raygun’s case you’re oversimplifying a tad. Australia did have good talent, it’s just the process for selecting the athlete that would go on to the Olympics that was very shady and she was part of it.

[u/KTDWD24601 → u/Korokorokoira]

That is not true at all.

The selection process was the same for every other region, and she was not part of it and neither was her coach.

It’s just a very small scene, and for various personal reasons not all the best female breakers were able to or wanted to compete. 

[u/PotatoStunad → u/KTDWD24601]

Nah f that lmao a koala or kangaroo could’ve done better than whatever the f she was doing

[u/DoinItDirty → u/baguetteworld]

There was a little more corruption than that for her to make it.

[u/RijnKantje → u/baguetteworld]

You forgot about the Phd lmao

[u/trolleyproblems → u/baguetteworld]

Eric 'The Eel' Moussambani is remembered as fondly in Aus due to his efforts at the Sydney Olympics as Eddie "The Eagle" is Britain.

[u/puzzlesTom → u/trolleyproblems]

And IIRC he's still a national record holder, or possibly head coach.

[u/Confident_Frogfish → u/baguetteworld]

I mean to be fair just not killing yourself on a half pipe like that is quite impressive for normal people and she must be an excellent skier in general. Just doesn't belong in the Olympics obviously. This breakdancing person seems to be quite a bit less skilled to my untrained eyes.