{"id":480126,"date":"2026-02-20T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480126\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:38:07","slug":"winter-olympics-2026-live-updates-day-14-latest-from-the-games-including-speed-skating-and-curling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480126\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics 2026 live updates: Day 14 latest from the Games including speed skating and curling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We heard from U.S. vice president JD Vance earlier this week, who said he hopes people who benefit from the American education system and \u201cthe freedoms and liberties that make this country a great place\u201d would want to represent the U.S. internationally.<\/p>\n<p>While not directly saying Eileen Gu \u2014 the Chinese athlete who was born in San Francisco \u2014 should wear different colors at the Olympics, Vance insinuated she should be representing the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the 22-year-old responded to those comments when she spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2026\/02\/19\/eileen-gu-jd-vance-united-states-2026-olympics\/88764808007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac \u201cSo many athletes compete for a different country \u2026 people only have a problem with me doing it because they kind of lump China into this monolithic entity, and they just hate China. So it\u2019s not really about what they think it\u2019s about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd also, because I win. Like, if I wasn\u2019t doing well, they probably wouldn\u2019t care as much \u2014 and that\u2019s OK for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We heard from U.S. vice president JD Vance earlier this week, who said he hopes people who benefit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-480126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}