By Lee I-chia / Staff reporterLast year’s Taipei Summer Universiade displayed the “tough Taiwanese spirit,” Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday. Ko made the remarks in response to comments by former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) that Taiwan won many medals in the Games because China’s best athletes did not compete. They held the National Games of the People’s Republic of China at the same time, so all the best athletes stayed in China,” Lu said on a political talk show aired on Thursday evening. Taipei was the host of the Games and Team Taiwan won 26 gold medals, 34 silvers and 30 bronzes, the best Universiade result that the nation had ever achieved. Lu’s remark caused many upset netizens to leave comments on her Facebook page, including some asking her to apologize to Taiwanese athletes for discrediting their efforts, some accusing her of shaming Taiwanese athletes to achieve her political goal of attacking Ko, and others saying her remark would hurt the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) election results in the Nov. 24 nine-in-one elections.

Source: Taipei Times May 12, 2018 15:56 UTC