Do You Know Why She Chose to Compete for China?

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Abe, gon ileen goi supor flush shot. I hope start em and the the riches that you have earned through taing america are all worth it, because you have definitely sold out. In china, she was revered. You couldn't watch c c t v without seeing her, unlike every third advertisement. And she went away with two gold medals and a silver medal in her sport. So she is probably feeling fairly good, although probably exhausted by the whole experience.

This year’s weird Winter Olympics were overshadowed by politics, Covid-19, and the threat of war. But as NPR’s Tom Goldman explains, the biggest scandals were still about the sports.

This episode was produced by Will Reid with help from Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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