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Zhu Yi, a figure skater born in California who renounced her American citizenship to compete for the People’s Republic of China in the Beijing Winter Olympics, has been facing harassment on the Chinese social media platform Weibo after falling in her Olympics debut routines. She fell twice on Sunday during the women’s short program team event, and ultimately placed last. Negative reactions against her performance came swiftly on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter. After her falls on Sunday, Zhu told the Times, “I guess I felt a lot of pressure because I know everybody in China was pretty…