Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/09/14
By: Hsiao Po-yang and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) A Taoist temple in Changhua County said Saturday that it has been flooded with about 20,000 orders for a baseball cap that is believed to have brought good luck to a Norwegian triathlete earlier this month, and it is trying hard to meet demand.

On Saturday, the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, people started queuing up at 2 a.m. in front of the Taoist Shun Tse Temple in Puyan Township for the 1,000 free caps it was handing out, and 10 minutes after the handout started, the caps were all gone, said temple official Hsu Wei-chiao (許維樵).

He said that this year, the temple had ordered 500 baseball caps bearing its name, but demand has spiked since 23-year-old Gustav Iden was seen wearing the cap when he crossed the finish line first in the 2019 Ironman race in France on Sept. 8.

As of Saturday, Hsu said, the temple had received some 20,000 orders for the cap, which will not be fulfilled until Oct. 20.    [FULL  STORY]