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<strong>Universiade athletes named</strong>
The Taiwan team attending the FISU World University Games is this year to include at least 11 Olympians, some of whom won medals at the Games, the Sports Administration said on Thursday. Athletes have already been selected to compete in gymnastics, archery, judo, rowing and taekwondo at the Chengdu Universiade, which was postponed from last summer to June and July this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the agency said. Selection of the other athletes would be completed by the end of April, before the team’s formal registration on May 25, it added. Those already chosen include gymnast
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Taiwan s National Flag Omitted in Official Twitter Posts of Olympic Medal Winners By Patrick Goodenough | July 27, 2021 | 4:29am EDT
Lo Chia-ling of Taiwan celebrates after winning the bronze medal in taekwondo in the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. She is waving not Taiwan’s national flag but the IOC-approved one for the so-called ‘Chinese Taipei’ team. (Photo by Fred Lee/Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – For more than four decades, the International Olympic Committee has labeled Taiwan “Chinese Taipei” in deference to Beijing’s communist rulers, but the organizers of the Tokyo Olympics have gone a step further, choosing not to include Taiwan’s national flag when highlighting a Taiwanese medal-winner’s achievement on Twitter.
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