![]() China’s current party chief, Xi Jinping, has invoked Mao’s image as he tries to promote his own status as a history-making Chinese leader.Īt a July 1 event, Xi appeared on Tiananmen Square in central Beijing in a gray Mao jacket identical to one worn by the former leader in a nearby portrait overlooking the square. “We have contacted the Chinese Olympic Committee, asked them for a report about the situation,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said at the daily news conference at the Tokyo Games.īadges showing Mao’s profile were worn by hundreds of millions of people in the 1960s to show their loyalty to the Communist Party chairman and the ultra-radical Cultural Revolution he launched in 1966. It was unclear Tuesday if the Mao pins were a response to the shot-put medal ceremony. ![]() She was standing next to the gold medalist from China. The incident came one day after American shot-put silver medalist Raven Saunders crossed the wrists of her raised arms on the podium. The communist leader who proclaimed the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 remains an iconic figure in China 45 years after his death in 1976. ![]() The gesture - Mao pin badges worn by two Chinese gold medalists at their medal ceremony - risks being judged a breach of Olympic Charter Rule 50, which prohibits political statements on the podium at the Tokyo Games - and at the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Games.Īfter winning the women’s sprint in track cycling Monday, Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wore pin badges of Mao. TOKYO (AP) - The image of Communist China’s founding leader, Mao Zedong, made an unscheduled appearance at the Tokyo Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee said Tuesday it is “looking into the matter.”
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