The Chinese public on Monday gushed over teen heroes Su Yiming and Eileen Gu after their much anticipated appearances on the Olympic slopes as a prominent pundit urged the country¡¯s netizens to stop panning foreign-born figure skater Zhu Yi.
The name of 17-year-old Su, a former child actor, was the most viewed topic on China¡¯s Twitter-like Weibo platform. The term ¡°1800¡± ¡ª referring to his completion of one of the toughest snowboarding tricks ¡ª was a close second.
Su took silver in the men¡¯s snowboarding slopestyle event behind Max Parrot of Canada. His Chinese fans, however, questioned why he was not given a higher score for what they called a ¡°perfect¡± performance.
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