In the men's doubles final of badminton at the Tokyo Olympic Games on July 31, the "Twin Towers" lost to the Chinese Taipei team, which greatly boosted the morale of the green media on the island. However, last night' Chinese player Chen Yufei narrowly defeated Dai Ziying in the badminton women's singles final, adding another gold to the Chinese team, and the so-called "world's first" Xiao Dai can only be relegated to the second place, which is estimated to make Bending frustrated.
When we look back at the achievements of TaiWan Province in previous Olympic Games, we can roughly understand the significance of Xiao Dai's victory in the final to the provincial team.
In October 1949, the former Chinese Sports Association was reorganized into the All-China Sports Federation, the Chinese Olympic Committee. It is the only statutory national sports organization in China. Athletes were then invited to participate in the Helsinki Olympics.
But after the Helsinki Olympics, until the restoration of legal seats on the International Olympic Committee in 1979, athletes from China's TaiWan province were active in the Olympic arena, while athletes from New China were ostracized. Although TaiWan Province at that time did not represent Chinese mainland for political reasons, what cannot be erased is the fact that they were both Chinese.
In 1952, the Chinese delegation held a flag-raising ceremony at the Helsinki Olympic Games (Source: Internet)
As a result, at the 1956 Olympic Games, China's Taiwan Province officially sent 21 male athletes to participate in athletics, weightlifting, shooting, basketball, and boxing. In 1958, the Chinese Olympic Committee was forced to break off relations with the International Olympic Committee.
The 17th Olympic Games in 1960 were held in Rome, Italy. China's TaiWan province sent 47 athletes to participate in shooting, swimming, football, basketball, athletics and boxing events, and Chinese TaiWan athlete Yang Chuanguang won the decathlon runner-up, the only track and field medal in Asia and the first Chinese to win an Olympic medal.
Yang Chuanguang (Source: Network)
The 18th Olympic Games were held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. China's TaiWan province sent 55 athletes to compete in shooting, basketball, athletics, cycling, weightlifting, boxing, gymnastics, judo. The 19th Summer Olympics in 1968 were held in Mexico City, Mexico. China's TaiWan sent 43 athletes to compete, and Ji Zheng won a silver medal in the 80-meter hurdles, the first Olympic medal won by a Chinese woman.
Athlete Ji Zheng of Taiwan Province of China (Source: Taiwan "China Times Electronic News")
In 1970, the 70th Plenary Session of the International Olympic Committee was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Xu Heng of TaiWan, China, was elected a member of the IOC. The 20th Summer Olympic Games in 1972 were held in Munich, Germany. TaiWan China sends 63 athletes to compete in athletics, swimming, weightlifting, shooting, cycling, archery, wrestling, judo, boxing and sailing. On October 25, 1979, a meeting of the IOC Executive Committee was held in Nagoya, Japan, and a resolution was adopted to recognize the Chinese Olympic Committee as a national Olympic Committee and restore China's legal seat in the IOC: the Chinese Olympic Committee is a national organization in China, and China's Taiwan Province can only use the name of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee as a local institution of China to remain in the IOC and participate in Olympic activities using the new flag, song and emblem approved by the IOC.
On October 25, 1979, the Nagoya Resolution was adopted, and the President of the International Olympic Committee, Kiranin (left), congratulated Song Zhong, Secretary-General of the Chinese Olympic Committee, (right).
Although Chinese Taipei has participated in the Olympic Games in China's name for many years and has achieved some achievements in the Olympic arena, it has not been able to win the Olympic championship.
Until the 2004 Athens Olympics, taekwondo player Chen Shixin broke this record in the women's 49 kg competition, winning the first Olympic gold medal in the history of the Chinese Taipei Olympics and the first Women's Gold Medal in Taiwan. Meanwhile, Zhu Muyan won gold in the taekwondo men's 58 kg competition, the first Olympic gold medal won by a Chinese Taipei man.
Chen Shixin (Source: Network)
At the London Olympic Games after eight years, in the women's weightlifting women's 53 kg competition at the London Olympic Games in 2012, Chinese Taipei's Xu Shujing won the silver medal. But later, due to the champion's urine test being positive, Xu Shujing fell a gold medal. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Xu Shujing won another championship in this event.
Xu Shujing (Source: Network)
So as of the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese Taipei has won a total of 4 Olympic gold medals, so we can understand that Bend's expectations for Dai Ziying, a seeded player, are very high.
Medals won at previous Olympic Games in Taiwan Province of China