Picture of athletes' '6/4' race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacre A photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women's race numbers inadvertently formed a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China's entrants in the women's 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A photograph of th...
Picture of athletes' '6/4' race numbers erased in perceived reference to 1989 massacre A photograph of two Chinese athletes hugging after a race has been censored on Chinese social media because the women's race numbers inadvertently formed a reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China's entrants in the women's 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A photograph of th...
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