The China Post
Date: August 30, 2016
By: Yuan-Ming Chiao
TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) vowed institutional reform of sports associations at
Premier Lin Chuan holds a Chinese Taipei flag signed by all members of Taiwan’s Rio Olympic squad, while posing with some of the athletes at a banquet in Taipei, Monday, Aug. 29. (Yuan-Ming Chiao, The China Post)
an event for the returning Rio 2016 Olympic squad at the Presidential Office on Monday.
She said that reforms would include the liberalization, institutionalization, professionalization and financial transparency athletic training expenditures.
The president also called for the introduction of standardized qualification criteria, as well as the establishment of independent refereeing procedures. Tsai said the reforms would give both athletes and their coaches the right to appeal decisions made by individual athletic associations.
On the eve of the Olympics, tennis star Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇) dropped out of competition after a heated debate with the vice president of Taiwan’s Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee, Tsai Szu-chuen (蔡賜爵).
Hsieh had called the Chinese Taipei Tennis Association’s (CTTA) selection system for coaches and players “unjust.” [FULL STORY]
