Figureskating-China's U.S.-born Zhu inconsolable after team event flop

[beijingwalker]

Figureskating-China's U.S.-born Zhu inconsolable after team event flop​

By Chang-Ran Kim
and Muyu Xu

February 6, 2022

BEIJING, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A tearful Zhu Yi was inconsolable after nerves and pressure got the better of the U.S.-born Chinese figure skater, whose last-place performance knocked China to fifth place from third in the Beijing Games' team event on Saturday.

Skating to The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black", Zhu tumbled on her first combination triple flip-triple toeloop jump, crashing into the wall, and bungled her triple loop later, scoring 47.03.


Top-placed Kamila Valieva, for ROC (Russian Olympic Committee), scored 90.18.

"I'm upset and a little embarrassed," said the 19-year-old, who was born and raised in the United States in a Chinese immigrant family, wiping away tears after finishing her short programme stone-faced.

"I guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty surprised with the selection for ladies' singles and I just really wanted to show them what I was able to do but unfortunately I didn’t," she said, her voice quivering.

Local netizens spared no mercy in a critique of her performance.

"Anyone would question how she was chosen to the team. Is it because she has a scientist father?" a user nicknamed "wFersry" wrote on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

Zhu placed ninth in the women's singles at the Grand Prix in Turin in November.

"I just felt very sad that I couldn't do better and help (China) during this team event but I'm very grateful to have them, and have them cheering for me."

A few others on Weibo were kinder.

"I hope people don't say this (insults) to Zhu," wrote user "Zhang Yuzhe".

"The level of our team is still far behind Russia and the U.S. It already showed courage by coming to the stage. No one who competes for the first time can perform perfectly. It's okay if she can adjust her condition in the next competition."

Zhu competes in the individual event on Feb. 15.

China advanced to the finals along with ROC (Russian Olympic Committee), United States, Japan and Canada.

Figureskating-China's U.S.-born Zhu inconsolable after team event flop

A tearful Zhu Yi was inconsolable after nerves and pressure got the better of the U.S.-born Chinese figure skater, whose last-place performance knocked China to fifth place from third in the Beijing Games' team event on Saturday.

www.reuters.com

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

In sport, anything can happen?

 

[beijingwalker]

Chinese social media can be very brutal, especially for celebrities

 

[beijingwalker]

Native name	朱易
Alternative names	Beverly Zhu
Country represented	China
Former country(ies) represented	United States

Zhu Yi or Beverly Zhu (Chinese: 朱易; born September 19, 2002) is a Chinese-American figure skater who represents China in ladies' singles.
She won the 2018 U.S. national novice title before switching to representing China internationally

Zhu was born on September 19, 2002 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents, Cui Jie and Zhu Songchun, are both originally from China. Her father is a computer expert and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

She is part of a growing number of foreign athletes of Chinese origin attempting to become naturalized Chinese citizens.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

She is part of a growing number of foreign athletes of Chinese origin attempting to become naturalized Chinese citizens.

Why does she have to become naturalized? Her father is a famous Chinese national (and likely her mother is a Chinese national too). Wouldn't that also make her a Chinese national by default even if she was born over here?

Song-Chun Zhu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Song-Chun Zhu
Born	June 1968 (age 53) Ezhou, Hubei, China
Nationality	Chinese

"...Zhu has two daughters, Stephanie and Beverly.[5] Beverly Yi Zhu (Chinese: 朱易) is a Chinese-American competitive figure skater"

 

[faithfulguy]

She did her best. she never was expected to medal. There is only one favorite in this event. People can be tough and the expectations are unrealistic for a nonecontender. These guys need to chill.

 

[beijingwalker]

One thing we should learn from Americans is they are way more tolerant over mistakes and imprefections while Chinese are very strict over themselves as well as others, tend to be less tolerant for mistakes.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

One thing we should learn from Americans is they are way more tolerant over mistakes and imprefections while Chinese are very strict over themselves as well as others, tend to be less tolerant for mistakes.

Well many conservatives were seething and raging about Simone Biles dropping out due to mental health.

As long as we keep a clear head it's OK. Just skating. Try better next time.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

One thing we should learn from Americans is they are way more tolerant over mistakes and imprefections while Chinese are very strict over themselves as well as others, tend to be less tolerant for mistakes.

That's exactly why innovation is slow in China. Not all new ideas turn into success. Failure is bound to occur. Fear of scorn makes for meek risk taking.

Even the Chinese here were full of scorn at the initial Falcon 9 landings crashing..saying basically this is a wasteful endeavor of a futile idea.

SpaceX just successfully landed their 106th rocket a few days ago.

..and they look back at the landing failures with amusement not scorn

„If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.“ — Elon Musk

 

[beijingwalker]

Why does she have to become naturalized? Her father is a famous Chinese national (and likely her mother is a Chinese national too). Wouldn't that also make her a Chinese national by default even if she was born over here?

Song-Chun Zhu - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Song-Chun Zhu
Born	June 1968 (age 53) Ezhou, Hubei, China
Nationality	Chinese

"...Zhu has two daughters, Stephanie and Beverly.[5] Beverly Yi Zhu (Chinese: 朱易) is a Chinese-American competitive figure skater"

So top Chinese scientists are not so keen to become US citizens, thanks for the confirmation.

That's exactly why innovation is slow in China. Not all new ideas turn into success. Failure is bound to occur. Fear of scorn makes for meek risk taking.

No country's innovation development increase is faster than China, in terms of innovation, China is going up, US is going down, all recent data show this trend.

General Atlantic CEO: We're seeing tremendous innovation in China

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

No country's innovation development increase is faster than China, in terms of innovation, China is going up, US is going down, all recent data show this trend.

Name one item people across the world use every day that came from "innovative" China in the last 100 years. Your innovation development may be growing but 50000% of zero is still zero.

Tik Tok maybe?

 

[zhxy]

Name one item people across the world use every day that came from "innovative" China in the last 100 years. Your innovation development may be growing but 50000% of zero is still zero.

Tik Tok maybe?

- Electronic Cigarette
- Artemisinin
- DJI Drone
- Oppo, xiaomi, huawei .... smartphone

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

- Electronic Cigarette
- Artemisinin
- DJI Drone
- Oppo, xiaomi, huawei .... smartphone

yes, the electronic cigarette. I've mentioned that before
ok Malaria prevention is important even though it is a tropical thing I'll give that a yes.

Quad drone is not a Chinese innovation. The Japanese were selling them in the 90's as toys.

Here's a late '90's US one.

The touchscreen smartphone is not a Chinese innovation.

 

[MH.Yang]

yes, the electronic cigarette. I've mentioned that before
ok Malaria prevention is important even though it is a tropical thing I'll give that a yes.

Quad drone is not a Chinese innovation. The Japanese were selling them in the 90's as toys.

The smartphone is not a Chinese innovation.

China is a country with a history of 5000 years, the past 100 years have been the worst 100 years in our history. That is the bottom of our valley and does not represent the real ability of our civilization.
Why don't you mention the gunpowder, movable type printing, compass, pulp papermaking created by China.

 

[beijingwalker]

Name one item people across the world use every day that came from "innovative" China in the last 100 years. Your innovation development may be growing but 50000% of zero is still zero.

Tik Tok maybe?

Name one item people across the world use every day that came from "innovative" of US which is older than 200 years old, can you?