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Rising Canadian athlete switches citizenship, hoping to compete for China in Tokyo Olympics
National Post ^ | April 1, 2021 | Tom Blackwell

Posted on 04/01/2021 9:19:48 AM PDT by Loyalist

Edited on 04/01/2021 9:46:49 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Nina Schultz was just 19 years old when the world realized it had a serious new contender in the heptathlon.

The Westminster, B.C. native captured a silver medal for Canada at the last Commonwealth Games, finishing behind only the U.K.’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson, now the international number one.


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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020olympics; canada; china; dualcitizenship; ninaschultz
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1 posted on 04/01/2021 9:19:48 AM PDT by Loyalist
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To: Loyalist

“Yer supposed t’ dance with the one what brung ya!”


2 posted on 04/01/2021 9:24:31 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Loyalist

Heptathlon.
How do you say that without adding an ‘a’ before that ‘Lon’?
Hep-tath-(a)lon.


3 posted on 04/01/2021 9:26:34 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Loyalist

I knew an American girl in figure skating whose step-father was Jewish (American). she somehow used that to grab a spot on the Israeli Winter Olympic team.


4 posted on 04/01/2021 9:30:50 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Loyalist

Ho. A common Chinese surname.

Hè (simplified Chinese: 贺; traditional Chinese: 賀; pinyin: Hè IPA: [xɤ̂])) is a Chinese surname also Romanized Ho. It is 71st in the list of the top 100 most common Chinese family names. It means “‘celebrate, congratulate”. According to a 2013 study it was the 86th most common surname, shared by 2,740,000 people or 0.210% of the population, with the province with the most people being Hunan.

“China Puts 2nd Canadian On Trial For Espionage And Bars Spectators”

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/979897780/china-puts-2nd-canadian-on-trial-for-espionage-and-bars-spectators


5 posted on 04/01/2021 9:51:59 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Attention! All persons having the corona virus...please report to the nearest IRS office. Thank you.)
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To: Loyalist

And, if that doesn’t work, she’ll have an adadictomy operation performed on her, and try as a male competitor.


6 posted on 04/01/2021 10:15:25 AM PDT by moovova (Yo GOP....we won't forget.)
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To: Loyalist

Why don’t all the NBA players do this?


7 posted on 04/01/2021 10:17:10 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: Loyalist

Olympic athletes make good organ donors.


8 posted on 04/01/2021 1:51:06 PM PDT by utax
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