The Sports Administration yesterday said it would stop paying competition and training subsidies to speedskater Huang Yu-ting (黃郁婷) for two years as discipline for her behavior before and during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The cessation of subsidies went into effect yesterday after a special meeting on Wednesday evening, said Lan Kun-ten (藍坤田), head of the Sports Administration’s Competitive Athletics Division.
The meeting was attended by members of the nation’s Olympic Committee and Skating Union, legal experts, academics and Huang herself, who is in Norway, via videoconference, media reports said.
Huang was asked if she had anything to say, at which point she
/ Staff writer, with CNAThe Sports Administration yesterday said it would stop paying competition and training subsidies to speedskater Huang Yu-ting （黃郁婷） for two years as discipline for her behavior before and during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Last month, Taiwanese speedskater Huang Yu-ting (黃郁婷) was the subject of much controversy when she posted a video on Instagram of herself wearing the uniform of the Chinese speedskating team during a practice session ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Huang was not the only athlete who attracted attention at the Games over questions about national and racial identity.
Eileen Gu (谷愛凌) and Zhu Yi (朱易, formerly Beverly Zhu), two American-born athletes who renounced their citizenship to compete for China, were quickly accused of disloyalty by US commentators. Nathan Chen (陳巍), a Chinese-American figure skater on Team USA who won
Broadcasting Corp of China chairman Jaw Shaw-kong (趙少康) has been lambasting the government for taking a knee-jerk anti-China stance, yet he seems to not have realized that he has become an unthinking, fawning spaniel that acts as the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) mouthpiece on every issue.
As a national team athlete and the flagbearer for the Beijing Winter Games opening ceremony, speedskater Huang Yu-ting (黃郁婷) has been representing Taiwan at international competitions and benefiting from national training grants funded by taxpayers.
Regardless of an athlete’s performance at the Olympics, their country should at a minimum be able to count on them