Comments on: Guest Blogger: Let’s Be Proud of Lang Ping

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:06:47 +0000

Re:Phil

They don’t reconcile their own actions. At all. That’s what nationalists do, they accuse and defame, without regard to reality.

I’m glad to see that many Chinese posters rejected this antiquated hateful attack upon Lang Ping.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:15:35 +0000

I remind the naysaying Chinese commentors that China has hired many foreign coaches in the past. How do they reconcile those actions?

By: Realist

Realist — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:17:41 +0000

This is an interesting phenomenon that someone should research in-depth. Other examples abound:

* the manager of China’s baseball team is American
* Becky Hammon couldn’t make the US women’s basketball team, so she’s playing for Russia
* Shawn Johnson’s coach is from China
* the swimmer that Michael Phelps out-touched by 1/100th of a second is an American swimming for Serbia (who, incidentally, chose not to put his and over his heart when the US national anthem was played).
* pretty much all of Jamaica’s amazing sprinters are trained in the US

Are any of the above people being accused as traitors in blogs?

Do some countries take this issue more seriously than others?

How much does one’s citizenship really matter in the Olympics?

This would make an interesting term paper for an undergraduate sociology course.

By: China Journal : Shawn Johnson is a Star -- On CCTV

China Journal : Shawn Johnson is a Star -- On CCTV — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:34:45 +0000

[...] the U.S. team’s coach, Jenny Lang Ping, a star of China’s 1984 gold medal team, has been called a traitor after her U.S. team beat China during preliminary rounds of competition. And when Chinese teams [...]

By: ten chen

ten chen — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:08:15 +0000

This is crazy. she is making her life at best possible and she did i in USA with her excellent coaching. they should rather be feeling proud.. i am sick of hearing those nationalism… and so on.