Perhaps a sign of the times in our hyper nationalist culture, but the media is very interested in ex-pats and kids of first generation immigrants competing for countries that are not their country of birth. Most of it is on Chinese not born in China but competing for the Chinese flag.
I've seen Canadians or US competing for each other's countries, a Dutch man for Canada.
If they fail in their event there are questions as to their commitment to the Games. If they can't get clean coronavirus tests, it's a question of whether we should have let people represent us or train there.
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