[NTD, Beijing time, February 11, 2022]Peking University professor Rao Yi disclosed that Zhu Yi, a figure skater who gave up his U.S. citizenship for the Chinese team to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, did not want to return to China, but the General Administration of Sports of the Communist Party of China tried every means to get the Recruited from overseas.
Rao Yi: Zhu Yi is the first “naturalized” athlete
Zhu Yi, who was only 19 years old, fell in succession in two games at the Beijing Winter Olympics a few days ago. His performance was poor and he was attacked by mainland netizens. Some people even questioned that Zhu Yineng represented the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics because of her father’s relationship.
Zhu Yi’s father, Zhu Songchun, is a well-known artificial intelligence scientist. He will leave UCLA in 2020 and return to Peking University.
In response to the overwhelming criticism and doubts about Zhu Yi on the Internet, Rao Yi, the president of Beijing Capital Medical University and a famous biologist, publicly wrote, “Zhu Yi did not seek to return to China by himself, because China’s ice and snow sports are relatively weak, the General Administration of Sports of China has tried every means to find Overseas athletes with Chinese ancestry have invited many to return to China, and Zhu Yi is the first.”
Rao Yi said that Zhu Yi was the first athlete in China to formally invite “naturalized” athletes, and the decision to invite her was based on the potential she showed in the youth group at that time.
According to public information, Zhu Yi was born in Los Angeles, USA, and began to learn skating at the age of 7. She won the rookie championship with a record score of 167.69 points at the 2018 US Figure Skating Championships.
In order to win more medals in the Beijing Winter Olympics, the CCP took the opportunity to incite the fanatical national sentiment, and since 2018, it has vigorously recruited outstanding athletes overseas. Retired Chinese figure skater and former world champion Chen Lu launched the “Morning Road Project” to search for international talent and eventually recruited four American-born skaters, but only Zhu Yi made the final list.
Zhu Yi returned to China in September 2018 to join the Chinese national figure skating training team, which was specially prepared for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In 2019, Zhu Yi joined the Chinese nationality and represented the Chinese team. 7th in the Asian Figure Skating Championships in October 2021. She was eighth at Gran Premio. However, during a training session, Zhu Yi was seriously injured, and the skate stabbed into her right foot, keeping her away from the arena for a long time.
Zhu Yi fell one after another in the Beijing Winter Olympics, causing the Chinese team to miss the medal in the team event. Zhu Yi also attracted merciless criticism and abuse from mainland netizens.
Zhu Yi herself admitted in an interview with the official media after the game that malicious comments on the Internet put a lot of pressure on her.
Rao Yi, a professor at Peking University, revealed that Zhu Yi never took the initiative to join the Chinese team, but that China sought naturalization of some people out of national needs.
The public resume shows that Rao Yi was born in Nancheng County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province in 1962. He served as the president of Capital Medical University, the deputy director of Peking University’s administrative committee, director of the Department of Science, chair professor of biology, and the founding director of the McGovern Institute of Peking University. Founding director of Peking University-Tsinghua Life Science Joint Center, founding director of Beijing Brain Science and Brain-inspired Research Center.
This year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, the topic of Chinese naturalized athletes has attracted public attention. Gu Ailing, a naturalized athlete who “abandoned the United States and turned to China” like Zhu Yi, won the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics and was highly praised by the CCP’s official media and netizens. The treatment of Zhu Yi is completely different from that of Zhu Yi.
The “Washington Post” published an article on February 9 that China relies more on naturalized athletes to participate in sports that have previously struggled to win medals, including figure skating, ice hockey and skiing.
“Naturalized athletes are a shortcut — a contingency plan — for the host country to catch up and improve in a certain area,” Beijing sports commentator Sean Wang was quoted as saying.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the proportion of foreign players in the Chinese men’s and women’s ice hockey teams surprised the outside world. Eleven of the 23 members of the Chinese women’s ice hockey team are naturalized players; and as many as 15 of the 25 members of the Chinese men’s ice hockey team are foreign-born.
China does not allow dual nationality, but that code appears to have been loosened to attract planning athletes. Jeremy Smith, who plays for the Chinese men’s ice hockey team, said: “I told China I would never give up my American passport and they said it was okay. “
Gu Ailing, who has been touted by the Chinese Communist Party as the “Ice Princess”, has also been avoiding the question of whether to renounce her American citizenship.
(Comprehensive report by reporter Luo Tingting/responsible editor: Wen Hui)
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