Taipei Times
Date: May 13, 2018
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Last year’s Taipei Summer Universiade displayed the “tough Taiwanese spirit,” Taipei
Former vice president Annette Lu talks about her recent comments regarding Taiwan’s performance at last year’s Taipei Summer Universiade at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday.
Ko made the remarks in response to comments by former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) that Taiwan won many medals in the Games because China’s best athletes did not compete.
“Did we perform so well in the Universiade? It’s because China made it easy for us. They held the National Games of the People’s Republic of China at the same time, so all the best athletes stayed in China,” Lu said on a political talk show aired on Thursday evening.
She also claimed that the Chinese government informed Ko in advance that it would “let him off the hook and make it easy for him,” and that is why Taiwan was able to win so many gold medals.
Taipei was the host of the Games and Team Taiwan won 26 gold medals, 34 silvers and 30 bronzes, the best Universiade result that the nation had ever achieved.
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