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
They need to have a passport of the country they represent, and thus are citizens of the country they represent. There are a lot of athletes in many sports with a double nationality, and thus they are eligible for both nations (although in some sports you do have to make a choice and you can’t go back on that choice if you’ve met certain conditions).
Take Sifan Hassan (she has three gold and three bronze medals from Tokyo and Paris combined). She is a refugee from Ethiopia who fled to the Netherlands when she was 15. She has since gained Dutch citizenship, and thus was eligible for both Ethiopia and the Netherlands. But since she only took up running in the Netherlands she chose to represent the Netherlands. The only people who say she isn’t Dutch are the kind of people you don’t want to associate with.