IT’S PERSONAL: The incident is important to Taichung residents as 77.3% of survey respondents knew about it, which might affect a close mayoral race, a professor said
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 03, 2018
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The East Asian Olympic Committee’s decision to revoke Taichung’s right to host the first
East Asian Youth Games inadvertently raised public support for Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-lung’s (林佳龍) re-election bid, a Cross-Strait Policy Association survey showed yesterday.
The survey was conducted on Monday and Tuesday, about a week after the committee’s decision was made.
Chinese committee members made the suggestion in response to a proposed referendum to change the name of the national sports team from “Chinese Taipei” to “Taiwan” for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which they said would expose the Games to “political uncertainty.”
The survey among Taichung adults found that 77.3 percent of the respondents knew the city’s right to host the Games was revoked. [FULL STORY]