Blaze (he/him)Towel with “Taiwan” printed on it was confiscated during the male badminton doubles semi-finals
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themeatbridgeWhy was it confiscated? Because political messages aren’t allowed at the Olympics.
Why is it political? Because China does not recognize Taiwan’s independence, and holds much influence over the games. Taiwan competes under the name of Chinese Taipei at the Olympics, and beat China for the gold in doubles Badminton.
I’m also curious if there are size restrictions for signs? In my area it’s common to restrict signs to the size of a sheet of paper.
That might be a rule. I know I’ve seen people waving flags, but I don’t remember seeing a lot of signs. Maybe?
But it wouldn’t have mattered if someone had written the word Taiwan on a postcard; if they were holding it up during the games, it would have been confiscated.
It’s neither it appears to be a soccer style scarf, I’m not sure of any clothes that are banned unless they show something independently unlawful.
Then the name china can’t appear on apparel either it being just as political in reference to the same situation.
They only compete as Chinese Taipei because China has leaned on the commission to not recognize their nation even while self governed. It’s the UK telling Canada they can’t have Canadian merchandise and have to compete under their Commonwealth name.
ZagorathIncidentally, there’s a related thread in [email protected]. Links to it in a handful of instances:
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YeetPicsI say we remove mainland China from the games entirely. They can control their own games they host and tell everyone they don’t like to fuck off (they won’t have to, nobody likes Beijing, nobody would go).
Yeah, then the US would have all the golds to ourselves. 👍