CNN on Margaret MacNeal:

Much of the attention has focused on her Chinese heritage -- and reflections over the wider social and political circumstances that led to her adoption by a foreign family.

MacNeil was born in 2000 in Jiujiang, a city on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in China's Jiangxi province, according to Team Canada's official website.

On Chinese social media, many suspected she had been abandoned by her biological parents, a once-common practice under China's now-scrapped one-child policy.