Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/14
By: Huang Tzu-chiang and Ko Lin

Singapore, Oct. 14 (CNA) Taiwan came away from the Asian Rowing Junior

Championships in Singapore this year with one bronze and two silver medals, the team coach said Saturday.

Liu Chia-chin (劉家蓁) won Taiwan’s first silver medal in this year’s competition, finishing second in the Junior Women’s Single Sculls event, said the team coach Lin Hsin-ying (林欣穎).

The second silver medal was won by the team competing in the Junior Women’s Quadruple Sculls event, namely Chen Chao-jung (陳昭容), Wan Shih-wei (萬士緯), Lin Chia-yi (林家伊) and Yang Ching-hsuan (楊靚瑄), the coach said.

Lin Chia-yi and Wan Shih-wei, who also competed in the women’s double sculls race, took a bronze medal, the coach said.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: October 8, 2017

TAIPEI (CNA) – Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然) and Martina Hingis of Switzerland

have taken their ninth women’s doubles title of the year with a relatively comfortable victory in the finals of the China Open on Sunday.

The duo, seeded first this week in Beijing after moving up to the top two spots in the world’s women’s doubles rankings, topped fourth seeds Timea Babos of Hungary and Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-4 in just over an hour.

After whipping through the first set, Chan and Hingis secured the only break of the second set at 3-3 and held their final two service games with little drama to clinch the match.

The victory extended a remarkable run for Chan and Hingis, giving them their fourth consecutive title following wins at the Western & Southern Open in August and the U.S. Open and Wuhan Open in September.    [FULL  STORY]

Late drama as Taiwan beat Bahrain 2-1 at the Taipei Municipal Stadium to keep AFC Asian Cup qualification hopes alive.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/12
By: David Spencer, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Double-Ten day is always special in Taiwan, but few would

have expected this year’s celebrations to end on such a high note at the Taipei Municipal Stadium last night, as the Taiwan national football team took on a Bahrain side who beat then 5-0 as recently as September.

But that’s exactly what happened as the Taiwan team, playing as Chinese Taipei, staged a stunning late fightback to defeat Bahrain 2-1 and keep alive their chances of qualifying for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.

It was a humid evening as the game kicked-off, but the bank holiday scheduling meant a larger than normal crowd of 7,908 were in attendance, and they made their presence felt in the early stages as a scrappy opening saw both sides create few meaningful chances.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwanese winners from the Taipei 2017 Universiade and Military Police Service Company floats led the National Day parade

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/10
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwanese athletes who recently won the international games

waved hands to the crowd on a float during the National Day ceremony. Apart from the sports heroes featured in the parade, different ethnic groups and various Taoist temples also joined the colorful festive event this year.

In celebration of Taiwan’s 106th National Day, a float parade, which features 46 elaborately decorated vehicles, ran on the streets of Taipei following the National Day ceremony Tuesday morning. The floats started from the intersection of Yanping South Road and Changsha Street, and continued towards Zhongxiao East Road in the afternoon before arriving at a venue of festivities beside Nangang Exhibition Center.

The parade at the ceremony began with a march of Military Police on heavy motorbikes, which passed through the plaza in front of the Presidential Office at a slow pace, followed by a float carrying Taiwanese winners from prominent international sports games, including the World Games 2017, the Deaflympics 2017 held in the Turkish city of Samsun, and the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 11, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan yesterday fought back in dramatic fashion by scoring two late goals, with the

winner deep in stoppage-time, to beat Bahrain in their Asian Cup qualifier and set off a prolonged celebration at the Taipei Municipal Stadium.

Belgian-Taiwanese player Xavier Chen provided the inspiration to lift the team, helping new English manager Gary White to his first win in a competitive international.

Suffering a chronic injury, Chen had said before the match that he wanted the team to play well and get a good result because, win or lose, it was likely to be his last game for Taiwan as he plans to retire.
[FULL  STORY]