But three years later, Schultz is a Canadian track-and-field luminary no more.
At a moment of bitter tensions between the two countries, she has taken on Chinese citizenship and hopes to compete for her adopted country in this year’s Tokyo Olympics.
The reasons, Schultz has said, are deeply personal and seem to predate the current turmoil in China-Canada relations. Still, some critics of the regime in Beijing question her choice.
Her maternal grandmother in China once held the high jump world record but could never compete for that nation in the Olympics because it was boycotting the Games at the time. Her grandfather was a Chinese record holder in the high jump. The granddaughter expressed a wish as long ago as 2017 to achieve what her mother’s mother could not.
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Quad summit | Small cliques will destroy international order, says China
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Monday’s statement from China was the latest that took aim at the four-country grouping, and the strongest one so far
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Monday’s statement from China was the latest that took aim at the four-country grouping, and the strongest one so far
In a strong reaction to Friday’s first leaders’ summit of the Quad India, the United States, Japan and Australia and the upcoming visits this week of the U.S. Secretary of Defence to Japan, South Korea and India, China’s Foreign Ministry hit out at countries “forming enclosed small cliques”, describing it as “the sure way to destroy the international order”.