TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan will hold a heroes parade Friday (Aug. 16) afternoon to celebrate the nation’s Olympic athletes, the General Association of Chinese Culture announced Tuesday.
The parade will follow a “Our Heroes! Team Taiwan” party at the Presidential Office, where the athletes will be honored. The procession will begin at 3 p.m. from the Presidential Office plaza and travel along Guanqian Road before ending at the Zhongxiao West Road overpass, per the General Association of Chinese Culture.
The public is encouraged to line the route to cheer on the athletes. The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.
The military will participate in the celebration. The Ministry of National Defense Symphony Orchestra will perform, and honor guards will create a “sword gate” to welcome the athletes.
Taiwan’s Olympic team achieved its second-best-ever medal haul at the Paris Games, capturing two gold and five bronze medals.
The nation's athletes set multiple historic milestones, including the first-ever consecutive Olympic golds in men's badminton doubles by Lee Yang (李洋) and Wang Chi-lin (王齊麟), the first bronze in the single bar by Tang Chia-hung (唐嘉鴻), and the country’s first shooting bronze and boxing gold medals, claimed by Lee Meng-yuan (李孟遠) and Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷), respectively.
Additionally, weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun (郭婞淳) became the first Taiwanese athlete to win medals in three consecutive Olympics, while the boxing team's three medals by Lin, Wu Shih-yi (吳詩儀), and Chen Nien-chin (陳念琴) were a national record, per CNA.
