EDITORIAL: Sports body must provide answers

The government on Saturday drew sharp criticism for allowing Taiwanese speedskater Huang Yu-ting (黃郁婷) to act as the national team’s flagbearer during the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics following a controversy over Huang wearing the Chinese national team uniform during practice.
Huang on Wednesday last week said the uniform was a gift from a friend on the Chinese national team, and insisted that there is “no nationality in the world of sports.”
“Every athlete is a friend when we are not competing against each other,” she added.
Retired army general Yu Pei-chen (于北辰), a former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) member, said

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