‘Team Taiwan’ return home to heroes’ welcome after baseball win over Japan
Al JazeeraTaiwan President Lai Ching-te has feted the island’s baseball team after their victory at an international championship in Japan, a rare sporting achievement which has brought a surge of pride in being Taiwanese. Taiwan competes at global sports events as “Chinese Taipei” to avoid political objections from Beijing which views the island as its own, but its athletes are widely referred to by the president, his government and many Taiwanese as just being from “Team Taiwan”. The team took part in a thronged ticker tape parade on Tuesday through central Taipei to the presidential office on the back of military jeeps and trucks, all wearing black hoodies with the word “Taiwan” in English printed on the front. “That gesture was to tell everyone that we are players from Taiwan,” Chen told reporters as he was welcomed by hundreds of fans at the airport upon his return late on Monday, including Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim.
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