Taiwanese stars including shuttler Chou Tien-chen on Sunday progressed in the later Olympic events in Paris, but yesterday’s athletes were less fortunate.
Boxer Wu Shih-yi was the only Taiwanese competitor to progress as of press time last night, after her competitor in the women’s 60kg round-of-16, Nigeria’s Cynthia Ogunsemilore, was disqualified.
The situation looked hopeful in the men’s team archery event, when Taiwan’s Lin Zih-siang, Tang Chih-chun and Tai Yu-hsuan thrashed England’s Conor Hall, Tom Hall and Alex Wise 6-0 in the 1/8 elimination round.
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However, in the afternoon China’s Kao Wenchao, Li Zhongyuan and Wang Yan defeated them 5-1 in the quarter-final.
Taiwanese judoka Lien Chen-ling, competing in the under-57kg category, won her round-of-32 match against Sierra Leone’s Mariama Koroma, but her hopes of competing for a medal later in the day were dashed in the round-of-16 by Serbia’s Marica Perisic.
In the men’s individual foil, Taiwan’s Chen Yi-tung beat Lebanon’s Philippe Wakim 15-13 in the round-of-64, but was eliminated in the round-of-32 after losing 15-12 to France’s Enzo Lefort, who is ranked sixth in the world.
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Taiwan’s Yang Kun-pi failed to qualify after placing 19th in the men’s trap shooting, while table tennis player Chien Tung-chuan was eliminated in the women’s singles round-of-64 by Hong Kong’s Zhu Chengzhu.
On Sunday, it took Taiwanese shuttler Chou 43 minutes to beat Mexico’s Luis Ramon Garrid 21-17, 21-13 in the group play stage of the men’s singles.
Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin, the badminton duo who won gold in Tokyo three years ago, secured their second group stage win in the men’s doubles by defeating Denmark’s Kim Astrup and Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 21-15, 19-21, 21-15.
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However, Ye Hong-wei and Lee Chia-hsin saw their mixed doubles run in Paris come to an end after losing 14-21, 13-21 to Japan’s Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino in the group stage.
In table tennis, Taiwan’s Lin Yun-ju advanced after defeating Brian Afanador of Puerto Rico 4-1 in the men’s singles round-of-64.
Lin paired with Chen Sze-yu in the mixed-doubles table tennis, but they lost 2-4 in their quarter-final match against China’s Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha.
In the women’s singles round-of-64, Cheng I-ching won 4-0 against Cameroon’s Sarah Hanffou, while Kao Cheng-jui beat Iran’s Nima Alamian 4-1.
Cheng and Kao advanced to the round-of-32.
In boxing, Taiwan’s Chen Nien-chin defeated the Dominican Republic’s Moronta Hernandez 4-1 in the women’s 66kg class to advance to the round-of-16.
Star Taiwanese tennis player Hsieh Su-wei, and Tsao Chia-yi won their first-round women’s doubles match 7-6, 7-5 against Irina-Camelia Begu and Monica Niculescu of Romania.
READY TO GO: Lin, who got a first-round bye and is to compete in the round of 16 on Friday, said all she can do is ‘ignore what the haters say’ and focus on her bouts Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting, who was stripped of her bronze medal at last year’s International Boxing Association (IBA) Women’s World Boxing Championships after failing a gender eligibility test, has been cleared to compete in Paris, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Monday. Lin and Imane Khelif of Algeria, who had both been disqualified at the world championship in New Delhi in March last year, have complied with all rules to fight at the Games, the IOC said. They are now to compete in their second Summer Games, after both finishing outside the podium at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. “All athletes participating
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