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Taiwan’s national flag anthem plays during badminton medal ceremony in historic Tokyo Games moment
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Taiwan’s national flag anthem was played during the awarding ceremony for badminton at the Tokyo Games on Saturday in what may be considered a historic moment for both Taiwan and the Olympics.
The national flag anthem: The song, which dates back to the 1930s, blasted through the stadium’s speakers as Taiwanese duo Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin watched the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag rise in the medal ceremony, according to Taiwan News.
Lee and Wang bested China’s third-seeded duo Liu Yuchen and Li Junhui at the grand finals of men’s double in just 34 minutes.
Roundup: China claims two golds, four silvers in badminton
Xinhua
04 Aug 2021, 07:18 GMT+10
TOKYO, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) China claimed two golds and four silvers as the badminton competitions at the Tokyo Olympics concluded on Monday night. Eight teams harvested a total of 15 medals at Tokyo 2020. The medal table was still dominated by Asian teams, while China stood at the top by snatching two golds in the mixed doubles and women s singles. China was the also only team to progress to the finals in all five disciplines. In the mixed doubles, China s Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping and two-time world champions Zheng Siwei and Huang Yaqiong bagged one gold and one silver respectively. Women s singles shuttler Chen Yufei triumphed over Chinese Taipei s world No.1 Tai Tzu-ying to claim another gold.
Taiwan’s Medals Revive Debate Over Use of ‘Chinese Taipei’
TAIPEI After Taiwan beat China in the badminton men’s doubles final at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday, gold medalist Wang Chi-Lin made a Facebook comment that cast a spotlight on a contentious debate on the self-ruled 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.
But with its first gold in badminton plus nine other medals and counting, Taiwan’s best-ever Olympic performance has revived an old debate on the island over the practice by international organizations of referring to Taiwan as Chinese, and whether the island should compete under the name “Taiwan”.
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.
Reuters
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.