{"id":66855,"date":"2026-02-20T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/flattered-thanks-jd-eileen-gu-claps-back-at-vance-after-criticism-for-representing-china\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:55:10","slug":"flattered-thanks-jd-eileen-gu-claps-back-at-vance-after-criticism-for-representing-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/flattered-thanks-jd-eileen-gu-claps-back-at-vance-after-criticism-for-representing-china\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flattered. Thanks, JD!\u2019: Eileen Gu claps back at Vance after criticism for representing China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Olympic freeski star was born in San Francisco<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>VP suggested US-born athletes should compete for US<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Olympic freeskier Eileen Gu has responded after vice-president JD Vance appeared to criticise her choice to represent China on the international stage instead of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>With five medals, the 22-year-old Gu is the most decorated freeskier in Olympic history. She won two golds and a silver at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/feb\/08\/winter-olympics-big-air-eileen-gu-gold-beijing-china\">the 2022 Beijing Games<\/a> and has claimed two silvers at the Milano Cortina Games, with one more medal event set for Saturday in the halfpipe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/20\/eileen-gu-jd-vance-china-us-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic freeski star was born in San Francisco VP suggested US-born athletes should compete for US Olympic freeskier Eileen Gu has responded after vice-president JD Vance appeared to criticise her choice to represent China on the international stage instead of the United States. With five medals, the 22-year-old Gu is the most decorated freeskier in &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Flattered. Thanks, JD!\u2019: Eileen Gu claps back at Vance after criticism for representing China\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/flattered-thanks-jd-eileen-gu-claps-back-at-vance-after-criticism-for-representing-china\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Flattered. Thanks, JD!\u2019: Eileen Gu claps back at Vance after criticism for representing China\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}