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<\/h5>\nOkay, the competitors from Taiwan didn’t really thumb their noses at the mainland, but still…. it’s the thought that counts, right?<\/p>\n
Here we go: the Taiwanese doubles badminton players won two very bold medals \u2013 one gold, one silver – in that competition, and a young Taiwanese lady bested China with a gold in heavy weight-lifting. Granted, in the women’s singles badminton, in a fight to the death with women’s singles world number one Tai Tzu-Ying of Taiwan, China’s Chen Yufei on Sunday won her country its second badminton gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/02\/taiwans-olympics-victory-over-china-renews-calls-to-scrap-chinese-taipei<\/a><\/p>\n From the article: In the hours between Taiwan<\/a> winning gold and silver in Olympic badminton on the weekend, local courts in Taipei were packed with enthusiastic young players. The nail-biting matches had lit a fire of sporting patriotism \u2013 not least because both were against China, Taiwan\u2019s goliath neighbour, which claims Taiwan as a province it must retake.<\/p>\n The doubles win by Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin was Taiwan\u2019s second gold medal, after Kuo Hsing-Chun won in weightlifting, and added to its biggest medal haul in Olympic history. Taiwan sits 18th in the table. China<\/a> is first. Nevertheless, social media was awash with celebrations.<\/p>\n In a post on Facebook, Lee dedicated the win to \u201cmy country, Taiwan\u201d. President Tsai Ing-wen congratulated the team for \u201cwinning the first badminton gold medal in our country\u201d. Both phrases were deliberate, and fed into a reignited debate over a decades-old rule that has forced the island\u2019s team to compete at the Olympics under \u201cChinese Taipei\u201d, a name that exists on no map. \u2013 article<\/p>\n For a while, Taiwan was barred from competing as a country, but that has been done away with and the Taiwanese members compete as Chinese Taipei.<\/p>\n I say \u201cCongrats\u201d to these Chinese Taipei citizens, all three of them and a loud and wet \u201cbrrrrtttt!\u201d to Xi JinPing. Dude, you may own the commercial world right now, but nothing lasts forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"