Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-09-04
Taiwan’s athletes have outdone themselves at this year’s Asian Games. While flying
F-16 fighter jets escort a plane carrying the last of Taiwan’s athletes returning from the Asian Games. (Photo by CNA)
home Monday, after the closing ceremony, the last group of the returning team received a special honor in mid-air.
Two F-16 fighter jets are escorting some of Taiwan’s top athletes home. They’re returning from Indonesia, where this year’s Asian Games recently ended.
Taiwan’s team has never performed so well at the games, winning 17 gold medals, 19 silvers, and 31 bronzes. At the previous games, by contrast, Taiwan’s gold medal count stood at just ten. [FULL STORY]