Big in China: Hungary's short track speed skating Liu brothers the talk of the town at Beijing 2022

Shaoang Liu and Shaolin Sandor Liu are Hungary's short-track speed skating heroes.

Their men’s 5,000m relay victory four years ago at PyeongChang 2018 was Hungary's first ever Olympic Winter Games title, and now they are doubling down in Beijing.

Shaoang claimed his and the country's first individual Olympic gold medal in the 500m, a bronze medal in the 1000m, and shared the podium with his brother Shaolin Sandor once more as Hungary claimed bronze in the 2,000m mixed relay.

Massive stars back home in Hungary, the brothers are big in China too.

Born in Budapest to a Chinese father and a Hungarian mother, they spent a lot of time in China growing up and speak fluent Mandarin with a pronounced northeast China accent - something that the Chinese love.

As kids they trained in Jilin Province for a long time, sharpening their skating skills and picking up the accent.

There they trained and struck up relationships with future famous Chinese blade runners like Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei.

“Hopefully, even if there are Chinese skaters, they will cheer for us the same way they’d be cheering for Chinese skaters. We love our Chinese fans,” Shaoang said before the Games.

China's 1.4 billion people have been glued to their home Games and have taken other athletes with Chinese parents into their hearts.

Ailing (Eileen) Gu is the perfect example, born in California to an American father and a Chinese mother, Gu chose to represent China in Beijing and the country has already celebrated freestyle skiing gold and silver with her.

Raised by her Chinese mother and grandmother, Gu spent a lot of time in Beijing, she speaks her Mandarin with a heavy 北京话 (Beijing hua) accent and talks about 'sessioning' Chinese dumplings.

The Chinese take great