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Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/11
By: Mabel Neo, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter

TAIPEI(Taiwan News)- An athlete’s reaction time is the crucial aspect of a top-level

athlete’s technical skills, separating the able from the elite. Yeh Shou-po(葉守博) is the athlete with that has one of the fastest (if not the fastest) reaction time in Taiwan, making him the better “gunner,” having a higher advantage above the rest.

What is reaction time?

According to Magill & Anderson about Motor learning and Control in 2014, the reaction time is defined as the interval of time between the onset of a stimulus, and the initiation of a response.

Therefore, in sprint events, there is a sequence to follow after the gun goes off. The sound of the gun travels to ear, and the athlete’s ear registers the sound and sends an impulse to the brain. The brain then processes the sound then sends a signal to the athlete to start running. Upon receiving the signal, the sprinter will then go.
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Taipei Times
Date: May 11, 2018
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AP, MADRID

Latisha Chan on Wednesday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at

the Mutua Madrid Open, but fellow Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei crashed out to the top seeds in the second round.

Fifth seeds Chan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated unseeded Julia Goerges of Germany and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) in 1 hour, 24 minutes at La Caja Magica in the Spanish capital.

The Taiwanese-American duo saved three of six break points and converted four of eight, winning 71 of the 131 points contested, despite their opponents firing down five aces to advance to a quarter-final against Czech second seeds Andrea Sestini Hlavackova, Chan’s partner at the beginning of the season, and Barbora Strycova.

Hsieh and Daria Gavrilova of Australia fell to a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Russian top seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in 1 hour, 15 minutes.    [FULL  STORY]

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Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/05/07
By: Mabel Neo, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter

TAIPEI(Taiwan News)- He may not be the fastest runner in Taiwan, but he is someone

that we could not neglect in Taiwan’s athletic arena. He is none other than Wang Wei-hsu(王偉旭).

Who is he?

I first heard of Wang when he was the gold medalist for the 2013 World Gymnasiade Boys’ 400m event by clocking in 46.98 seconds (otherwise known as ISF School Summer Games 2013) in Brasília, Brazil. Since then, he was also known as the fastest high school runner, and he has always been standing on the podium in National High School Athletic Games.

He then entered the National Taiwan University of Sport, Department of Sport Performance (臺灣體育運動大學競技運動學系) as a freshman. At the same year, he joined National Sports Training Center(國家運動訓練中心) to improve his skills while training with other Taiwanese athletes in the center.

Wang highly admires his teammate, Yang Chun-han(楊俊瀚), the national record holder for Men’s 100m and 200m. He thinks that Yang’s resilience upon facing high-level competition and against pressure is something he has to learn. They share opinions with each other and compete in a friendly environment. Yang would also share his views of he sees Wang during the training and gives him pieces of advice to improve.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/07
By: Lung Po-an and Ko Lin

Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Taiwanese archers clinched five gold and two silver medals at the

2018 Gymnasiade in Morocco on Sunday.

Taiwan struck gold in the recurve mixed team event, with the team of Tang Chih-chun (湯智鈞) of New Taipei Municipal Mingder High School and Chang Rong-jia (張容嘉) of Hualien County’s Physical Education High School taking the top spot.

The duo managed to beat Ukraine 6-0 in the finals, taking three straight sets — 40-34, 39-35 and 39-36.

The recurve boys team, represented by Chou Li-chun (周立郡), Lin Zih-siang (林子翔), and Tang, also won gold after beating a team from the Ukraine 5-4.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/05
By:  Central News Agency

Taipei (CNA) – Polish national Piotr Lobodzinski and Australian Suzy Walsham won

the men’s and women’s events at the annual Taipei 101 Run Up on Saturday.

This year, elite runners were required to participate in two rounds, for which they received points, the athlete with the highest combined score being declared the winner. In the first round, competitors ran from the first to the 35th floor and in the second round from the first to the 91st floor.

Lobodzinski and Walsham won both rounds, receiving a maximum 560 points to clinch the titles.

However, neither of them broke the record for running from the first to the 91st floor, set by Australian Paul Crake in the men’s category with 10:29.32 and Austrian Andrea Mayr with 12:38.85, both in 2005.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/05
By: Lung Po-an and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, May 5 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton players are eyeing victories in both the

finals of the men’s doubles and mixed doubles at the New Zealand Open on Sunday.

Wang Chi-lin (王齊麟) and Chen Hung-ling (陳宏麟) have advanced to the men’s doubles final after they defeated Tan Qiang (譚強) and He Jiting (何濟庭) from China 21-14, 21-13 in the semifinals on Saturday.

The Taiwanese duo will face Berry Angriawan and Hardianto Hardianto from Indonesia in the final.

Wang will also partner with Lee Chia-hsin (李佳馨) in the mixed doubles’ final where the Taiwanese pair will take on Seo Seung Jae and Chae Yujung from South Korea.
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