Su Yiming is one of the most successful and coolest athletes at the Winter Olympics.
But the Chinese freestyle athlete doesn't even appear on German television.
At least not under his real name.
But optionally as Jingming Su or Jeming Su.
That's how the seventeen-year-old was introduced at the Big Air competition, where, by the way, he won the gold medal.
The venues of the games are also not recognizable in the ARD.
Yanqing becomes Janking.
Shougang becomes Schuang.
Hebei becomes Hebai.
Friederike Böge
Political correspondent for China, North Korea and Mongolia.
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That shows German provincialism, disinterest and arrogance towards the host country, which, despite all the criticism of the Communist Party, deserves more curiosity.
Unfortunately, that's typical of dealings with China, a country that, by the way, is Germany's most important trading partner and the most important sales market for the German auto industry.
In sports, too, China did not appear on the world stage yesterday.
On Friday it was fourth in the medal table, in 2018 the team finished 16th.
Admittedly, China does a bit to make its athletes less familiar to us than Mark McMorris and Shaun White.
For months, they have been shielded from the media and public during training and competitions so that nothing is known about them that is not in the Chinese script.
But the fact that the surname comes first in Chinese should have gotten around by now.