Su urges basketball racism probeStaff writer, with CNAPremier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday said that racial discrimination is unacceptable and urged an investigation of an incident on Saturday during a college basketball game in Taipei that sparked a heated exchange between players and prompted the Sports Administration to adopt stricter regulations. The incident occurred during a University Basketball Association game between Shih Hsin University and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) when the “N-word” was used against Mohammad Al Bachir Gadiaga (阿巴西), a Senegalese Taiwanese. National Taiwan Normal University’s Lin Shih-hsuan, right, goes to the basket against Shih Hsin University’s Mohammad Al Bachir Gadiaga, center, in their University Basketball Association quarter-final in Taipei on Saturday. “He called me a n*****,” Al Bachir told the referee, after a tussle in which he took a swipe at an NTNU player. Lin after the game apologized to Al Bachir and also to Shih Hsin University.

Source: Taipei Times March 02, 2021 15:56 UTC