On April 27, the U.S. sports delegation to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics will be invited to visit the White House. To go or not to go? All 244 athletes will have four weeks to consider. At present, 4 players, including Chinese figure skater and World Championships champion Chen Wei, have said "not to go" without confirming the invitation!
Athletes visiting the White House after major events has been a decades-long tradition in the United States. Prior to this, the absence of runners is not an isolated phenomenon, this time, Gus Kenworthy (skiing), Adam Lippen (figure skating), Chen Wei (figure skating) and Lindsay Vaughan (skiing) said in advance, even if they are invited, they will say no, one of the most concerned is Chen Wei, because he is a Chinese player.
Born on May 5, 1999 in Salt Lake City, USA, Chen Wei maintained his record of winning all five games this season before playing in Pyeongchang, and was considered to be expected to impact the position of Yusheng Knot, but it is a pity that he made mistakes in the short program at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and ultimately missed the medal. Many Chinese audiences will naturally have more affinity for the American player, because his parents are the first generation of Chinese immigrants. Chen Wei's father, a student from Guangxi who went to the United States in 1988, and his mother, from Beijing, is a Chinese translator.
From the age of 3, Chen Wei began to formally learn to skate. In addition, he also practiced piano, gymnastics, dance, ice hockey at the same time, obviously, such a high density of learning, thanks to the parents' focus on training. It can be said that Chen Wei in 2018, although he is less than 20 years old, has become the flagship figure of figure skating in the United States.
In the men's singles competition of the 2018 Figure Skating World Championships that ended earlier, Chen Wei became the brightest star on the ice rink, and he won the final championship with a perfect performance of nearly 50 points over the second place. This is the first World Championships men's singles champion in 9 years of American figure skating, and Chen Wei's slightly regrettable performance at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics was compensated for as quickly as possible. Of course, as for why Chen Wei refused to visit the White House, naturally there are his own reasons, as a Chinese, Chen Wei needs to overcome more difficulties than imagined.