Olympic cyclists escape with warning after wearing Chairman Mao badges
07-Aug-2021 08:07:55 | The Guardian
- Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi wore pins after cycling gold
- ‘We have received assurances it will not happen again’
Two Chinese cyclists who wore Mao Zedong pins after winning gold in the women’s sprint final on Monday have escaped serious censure for violating Olympic rules banning political propaganda.
The small red and gold pins worn by Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi were commonplace during the Cultural Revolution, a decade of social and political chaos in China where hundreds of thousands died or were sent to re-education to the countryside.
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