August 04, 2021
published at 6:51 AMReuters
Gold medallists Lee Yang (left) of Taiwan and Wang Chi-lin of Taiwan pose on the podium with their medals after winning the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Badminton Men s Doubles in Tokyo, Japan on July 31, 2021.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - After Taiwan beat China in the badminton men s doubles final at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday (July 31), gold medallist Wang Chi-lin made a Facebook comment that cast a spotlight on a contentious debate on the Chinese-claimed island: I m from Taiwan .
Wang s team competes at the Olympics as Chinese Taipei at the insistence of Beijing, which sees Taiwan as part of one China and has never ruled out the use of force to bring the democratic island under its control.
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