On January 5, Beijing time, Zhu Yi, a 19-year-old naturalized female general of Chinese figure skating, spoke out for the first time on Chinese social media and posted photos of her love. It is worth mentioning that Zhu Yi has changed her nationality and name before, she was born and raised in the United States, and she was an American player before.
When it comes to naturalized athletes in China's ice and snow sports, many people first think of Gu Ailing. Indeed, Gu Ailing is too dazzling, too difficult to copy, Gu Ailing's naturalization directly makes the Chinese winter project directly more than a few gold points, so Gu Ailing will receive such high attention.
However, the ice and snow athletes who gave up foreign flags and threw themselves into the embrace of the motherland are not only Gu Ailing, in fact, many athletes have chosen this way. In the figure skating arena, 19-year-old Zhu Yi is one of them. Born in 2002, the U.S. Championship rookie champion was also once the expectation of American figure skating, and in 2019, Zhu Yi changed his name from Beverly Zhu to Zhu Yi, renounced his American citizenship, and became a representative of China.
Zhu Yi also posted her first photo of her Chinese social media this time, and the sweet-looking Zhu Yi compared her heart to everyone, standing under the red lantern, properly a Chinese girl. After all, compared with Gu Ailing, Zhu Yi is almost no different from Chinese from the outside, and Zhu Yi's Chinese is very good, and the family's cultivation of her is actually based on Chinese culture.
In addition, it should be noted that Zhu Yi's father is famous and is the world-famous computer scientist Zhu Songchun. In fact, Zhu Yi is not a world-class figure skater, and she is inferior to her father in terms of achievements in her field. Of course, Zhu Yi is only 19 years old, although unlike Gu Ailing, who can represent the Chinese team in the championship, but we believe that Zhu Yi also has a broad future.