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Date: 2018/09/03
By: International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT)
Photo: Reuters / TPG
The Air Force is dispatching two F-16 fighter jets to escort the final group of athletes who competed at the Asian Games back to Taiwan today, part of a heroes’ welcome for Taiwan’s seventh-place team.
The team finished in seventh place in the overall medals table with 17 gold, 19 silver, and 31 bronze medals – Taiwan’s best gold medal haul since the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, when it took 19 gold medals.
The government is scheduled to award a total of NT$350 million (US$11.4 million) in prize money to the medal-winning athletes.
The two F-16s will be accompanying the plane carrying the team members once it enters Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone. [FULL STORY]