She also changed her name to Zhu Yi. The figure skater was trolled on Chinese social media for falling during the women’s short programme team event at the Games and for not being fluent in Chinese.

Zhu Yi, a figure skater who renounced her U.S. citizenship to compete for China, was harassed online after she fell during an Olympic event. Zhu, a 19-year-old from California who changed her name ...

While Yi is not the only American-born athlete representing China in Beijing, she is less popular than the likes of skier Eileen Gu because she is not able to speak Mandarin Chinese fluently.