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Chinese state television broadcaster CCTV on Sunday pulled the plug on its Olympic coverage to avoid showing Taiwan’s badminton team winning the gold medal by defeating the top-rated Chinese team.
CCTV also pointedly avoided showing the jubilant fans in the audience yelling “Taiwan Number One!” and decided to show men’s gymnastics instead of the badminton medal ceremony, treating China’s highly skilled silver medal team like a couple of losers. The entire game was broadcast to eager crowds back home in Taiwan, while China only carried 40 minutes of it.
“China claims to be a major power, but in fact it’s very narrow-minded and intolerant. That’s why CCTV stops broadcasting when it loses, and broadcasts only when China wins,” Chinese American political commentator Chen Pokong told RFA. Chen noted that CCTV has a huge battalion of reporters at the Paris Olympics because Chinese athletes have been instructed not to give interviews to any other media outlet.their gold medal victory. Their signs and banners might have been confiscated, but the authorities could not stop fans from chanting “Taiwan!” in the stands, or slipping a bit of the Taiwanese anthem into the opening musical fanfare.
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