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In September 2003, Eileen Gu was born in San Francisco, California. Almost exactly two years later, Alysa Liu was born three and a half hours' drive south east in Clovis, California. Both girls had parents who emigrated to the United States from China and both would go on to become sporting superstars. Their paths to the top are similar – prodigious success, elite university education, Olympic medals – but differ in one crucial aspect: when Liu steps on to the top of a podium, The Star-Spangled Banner rings out; when Gu does the same, the Chinese anthem plays.

U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu and Beijing-backed freestyle skier Eileen Gu woke up Friday morning to find themselves in a side-by-side contrast they never asked for, pitted against each other in a geopolitical battle they never sought. Hours after Liu's stirring performance in the free skate on Thursday won her America's first Olympic women's figure skating gold in 24 years, the Oakland native was suddenly thrust into association with another native Californian, Gu, the skier who is competing on behalf of China.

Just minutes after Alysa Liu won a historic Olympic figure skating gold for the U.S., her story as the child of a Chinese American immigrant who fled communism spread like wildfire across social media. Almost immediately, that discourse evolved, in many circles, into comparisons to another Chinese American superstar who has dominated headlines in Milan Cortina — American-born Team China skier Eileen Gu.

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