{"id":115195,"date":"2021-08-12T07:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115195"},"modified":"2021-08-12T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T09:58:09","slug":"chinas-attempt-to-change-olympic-medal-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115195","title":{"rendered":"China&#039;s attempt to change Olympic medal tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese media has been exposed trying to manipulate the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tokyo Olympics\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> medal tally by putting their nation at the top of the list, ahead of the USA, despite finishing second.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#x27;s Games saw the USA finish first with 39 gold medals, while China (38 gold medals) came in at second, with host nation Japan finishing third with 27 golds.<\/p>\n<p>However, China Central Television (CCTV), which is a state-controlled broadcaster run by the Chinese Communist Party, listed their nation with 42 gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the official Olympic tally attributing 38 gold medals to China, CCTV found a way to boost their medals by including Taiwan and Hong Kong in the overall tally. However, even including those two nations&#x27; efforts only adds three gold medals, so it is unclear where the 42nd gold has been brought in from. Taiwan and Hong Kong competed under their own flags.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3aee198c-f325-4017-87f0-d61a721c2f2a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3aee198c-f325-4017-87f0-d61a721c2f2a\" alt=\"A re-jigged graphic puts China at the top of the tally\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong earned just one gold medal at the Games, while Taiwan, which competes as &#x27;Chinese Taipei&#x27;, earned two gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>The re-jigged tally came to light after it did the rounds on Chinese social media platform, Weibo.<\/p>\n<p>And from there, the graphic appeared all over mainstream social media with fans on Twitter taking notice of the bizarre tally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by\u00a0clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Chinese media has been exposed trying to manipulate the 2021 Tokyo Olympics medal tally by putting their nation at the top of the list, ahead <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=115195\" title=\"China&#039;s attempt to change Olympic medal tally\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115197,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115195\/revisions\/115197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}