China Accidentally Admits To Paying Eileen Gu Millions To Ski

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It seems that it pays well to represent China in the Olympics. We could ask Eileen Gu, if she would deign to answer questions.

Or perhaps we should ask another American-born athlete, figure skater Zhu Yi, who at least was honest enough to admit that she renounced her American citizenship in order to skate for China in 2022. The Chinese Communists believe in some form of capitalism – they are willing to pay to have pretty faces with athletic skills to represent them on the world stage. And Eileen Gu and Zhu Yi are two of the primary beneficiaries of that Chinese capitalism.

American-born Olympian Eileen Gu scored millions from China in 2025 – a staggering payout exposed in a public budget before officials quickly scrubbed her name from the record, according to a report.

The champion freestyle skier, who competes for China, cashed in on a jaw-dropping $6.6 million from the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau last year – a hefty sum that was shared with fellow US-born Olympian figure skater Zhu Yi, according to the country’s budget, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Yi – who renounced her US citizenship – also performs under China’s flag.

The fiscal report shows that the star athletes were also slated to pocket a jaw-dropping $14 million, or nearly 100 million yuan, over the past three years from the sports bureau.

The latest chunk was tied to qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics, the outlet reported.

The eye-watering payday came to light after China’s budget, released in early 2025, accidentally named both Gu and Yi.

The faux pas resulted in officials erasing both names from the record, but not before the mega cash hauls ignited fury among China’s cash-strapped public, whose social media gripes also mysteriously vanished, according to the Journal.

China, erasing online criticism of their chosen star athletes??? Why, I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you. Now, the report apparently does not specify just how much each athlete got, but Zhu Yi is not competing in the 2026 Winter Olympics (China only has one slot for a women’s figure skater, and Zhang Ruiyang has that spot), so she will miss out on any extra bonuses. Gu, on the other hand, is skiing in the Winter Olympics and has already gotten a silver medal. However, the revelation that yes, China is paying her some big bucks to represent them is going to very much undermine her claim that she’s representing both countries.

Gu’s payout from China is also heightening the contrast between herself and another athlete, Alysa Liu. Liu, who is also of Chinese descent, was reportedly offered money to represent China as well. She didn’t take the money – and for good reason.

The 20-year-old is the daughter of Arthur Liu, who fled China after taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. The student-led pro-democracy movement ended in a brutal massacre in Beijing. The subject remains taboo in China, and any references to it are swiftly censored.

Her family history might partly explain why there aren’t too many posts about Liu on Chinese social media. Those that do praise her usually have comments below such as: “Why are you praising this person? Her whole family is anti-China”.

Raised by her father, Liu grew up in California and began skiing at a young age. At the age of 13, she became the youngest ever athlete to win the US women’s figure skating championship.

In 2019, Arthur Liu alleged that he was targeted in a spying operation that the Justice Department alleges was ordered by the Chinese government. His daughter says she was told by FBI agents in 2022 that she and her family were believed to be under surveillance by the Chinese government.

Someone who knows the cost of bucking China and their controlled narrative is our favorite former NBA player, Enes Kanter Freedom. He had plenty to say about Eileen Gu (we assume, she won’t say for certain) selling out her citizenship to take money from China.

The full post reads:

Eileen Gu is a traitor.

She was born in America, raised in America, lives in America, and chose to compete against her own country for the worst human rights abuser on the planet, China.

She built her fame in a free country, then chose to represent an authoritarian regime while cashing in on endorsements linked by watchdog groups to mass detention and forced labor camps.

When human rights come up, she disappears.

That’s not neutrality.
That’s a choice.

She chose to play for a country responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of its own people and that is running concentration camps right now, instead of the country where she was born and given opportunity.

You don’t get to enjoy the freedoms of U.S. citizenship while acting as a global PR asset for the Chinese Communist Party. By choosing to promote the CCP on the world stage, Eileen Gu forfeited any moral claim to America and should not keep her U.S. citizenship.

She chose Communism over Freedom.

And he posted that BEFORE the accidental confirmation that China was paying Eileen Gu. He is still pointing out the absolute hypocrisy of Gu taking the money and running.

China obviously didn’t want that kind of information getting out, and this revelation is sure to cost someone their… job. *cough* Eileen Gu certainly doesn’t want the public to know how much she’s being paid to sell out to the CCP. Maybe some reporters could, um, ask her about it, instead of constantly fluffing her at every turn.

Featured image: Eileen Gu in 2020, cropped, Martin Rulsch, Wikimedia Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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