re: The Chinese gold medalist skier that renounced her US citizenship has ties to Auburn.

Correct. She hasn’t answered the question because if a( she says she didnt renounce then she will get backlash from Chinese people wondering why the government would give her favoritism of other Chinese and b) if she said she did renounce frickers like many in here will accuse her of being a traitor. So there is no way she could possibly answer that question without pissing off millions of people. The most likely answer is that she didn’t renounce and China is just breaking its own rule and allowing her to compete for China.