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Posted on 04/01/2021 9:19:48 AM PDT by Loyalist
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.
But three years later, Schultz is a Canadian track-and-field luminary no more.
At a moment of bitter tensions between the two countries, she has taken on Chinese citizenship and hopes to compete for her adopted country in this year’s Tokyo Olympics.
The reasons, Schultz has said, are deeply personal and seem to predate the current turmoil in China-Canada relations. Still, some critics of the regime in Beijing question her choice.
Her maternal grandmother in China once held the high jump world record but could never compete for that nation in the Olympics because it was boycotting the Games at the time. Her grandfather was a Chinese record holder in the high jump. The granddaughter expressed a wish as long ago as 2017 to achieve what her mother’s mother could not.
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Given that both her grandparents were prominent sporting representatives of China, it’s likely that Schultz, knowingly or not, was a target of the United Front Work Department (UFWD), the party branch that strives to influence ethnic Chinese in other countries, said Ivy Li of Canadian Friends of Hong Kong.
“With a family background like hers … she would be monitored and worked on by the UFWD,” argued Li, who helped organize a recent petition calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. “If her grandparents are still living in the People’s Republic, that explains even more. The Canadian family would no doubt have been closely watched.”
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Retards will retard.
Probably will be given a good position in the regime as well.
What’ is a “Rising” Canadian athlete?
She must be a leftist. Anything for fame. Symbolism over substance. What we have here is a true deplorable. Canada should kick her little smarmy Obamahole to China and tell her not to even think of coming back.
Why two posts of exactly the same article?
Canadian Idiot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfBbR6L0M
Concentration camp guard.
Maybe she will be beaten by a man competing as a woman
Why ask why? Twice the fun. You can follow just one.
That’s gratitude for ya!
Now that’s funny.
Here in Alberta we mock the same things. Even curling. Who ever thought that should be a thing?
Canada will never do that hoping that she will compete for them.Just give her a few dollars more. Sheesh, they still misunderstand the value of money among athletes.
Probably doesn’t pay as well. Maybe they’ll make her prove her allegiance first.
Competition in the old country may be easier. I remember a Mexican American figure skater represent Mexico. His uniform was the pits but he never would have made it as the US men were much better.
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