curious if your country has a star athlete that chooses to represent the country of their parent/grandparent or however long ago it was. Do you still root for them?
Additionally if you’re the country that that athlete is representing do you feel they’re worthy of being the standard bearer for your nation during the Olympics or do you feel they’re taking the spot of a true local who might be similarly deserving?
Examples like the French gymnast who represented Algeria, or the Irish marathoner reprinting Australia, or last winter there was an American snowboarding for China, cases like those
Not quite the same but people in Kenya were pretty mad with Saif Saheed Shaheen a k.a Stephen Cherono for not only competing for Qatar, but setting a WR in their beloved 3,000m steeplechase.
What made them even more mad is that he practically lived and trained in Kenya the whole year. He probably only went to Qatar to collect his huge paycheck.