It’s very rare that a movie manages to improve on a book.
This was one of those times.
The funny thing is that, as an author, I could observe all the ways that the movie played with pace and action to provoke very specific emotional responses from the audience.
And, even seeing behind the magician’s curtain, I still couldn’t help but be affected a little bit.
Well worth watching.
harry potter web series.
this is a harry potter, fan made web series, done by a fellow filmmaker here in new york, the series has some really nice production value, check the article and the trailer.
I merged your post, Doug
I figured this thread could use a little ttt as its box office record was just dethroned by the Avengers.
I now confess that my review on HP 7.2 was just a way to get my kid into the screener. It made my kid was the coolest student in class for a whole week. 
BTW, here’s a photo of me when I studied at Hogwarts for a spell ;). I trained there right after Shaolin and Wudang.
Gratuitous self promotion Gene! Did they have Shaolin wizards??? I know there were Taoist ones…
random ttt
Return of HARRY POTTER and the Chinese Porcelain Doll
The internet is freaking out about this Chinese university that looks like Hogwarts
Pictures of a new university being built in Hebei have been making rounds on the web after online users pointed out that the castle-esque buildings bear more than a passing resemblance to Hogwarts (the school in Harry Potter where wizards and witches go to learn magic, tricks).
Weibo user @Shijiazhuangweiba posted these photos of Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, located in Xinle, and they’ve been circulating among fans across the microblog. Even the UK’s Daily Mail agrees that the university, what with its clock tower and magical-looking spires, takes on quite a likeness to Harry P’s ol’ stomping grounds (actually Alnwick Castle in Northumberland with some digital enhancement). Designers say that the university has been modeled on the architecture of castles from medieval Europe.
The university will reportedly be open for students later this year, at which point we have coincidentally decided to resume our studies…of fine arts.
Hally Porter and the Melons
Honestly when I did my review HARRY POTTER and the Chinese Porcelain Doll, I just did it to get into the screener. Biggest reach I’ve had to make to get it KungFuMagazine.com appropriate.
Even on the silver screen, English translations for Chinese releases can be a bit dodgy. But we’re not sure if we’ve ever seen subtitles fail so epically as the ones from a recent Chinese-dubbed edition of Harry Potter.
It’s not certain if these hilarious screencaps were taken from an official release or a bootleg DVD (we sure hope so), but either way it’s pure magic. It’s been a while since we’ve seen Harry Potter, but let’s try to set up the story for those unfamiliar:
The film begins with a young wizard, the eponymous Hally Porter, who must escape from the clutches of his Melon uncle along with two pigeons.
Hally finds his way to the Hogawalz School of Wizardly, where he befriends a red-haired wizard name Rond after inspecting his magic stick. When the bratty Draco Malfoy tries to bully Hally, Ron sticks up for his friend and tells the bully to eat crickets. Malfoy responds by calling everyone dirty Melons.
Later in the film, Harry must confront the evil wizard Fodi and get the gold voice, all while trying not to get fired.
Enjoy, Melons!
brb. Gotta figure out how to get our hands on this cinematic masterpiece!
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By Alex Linder in News on Aug 16, 2015 5:00 PM
There are a bunch more screen grabs if you follow the link to the original article.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Cha-ching! China distribution!
How magical. 
‘Doctor Strange,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Score China Releases
Senior Film and Media Reporter
Brent Lang @BrentALang
COURTESY OF DISNEY
OCTOBER 19, 2016 | 03:06PM PT
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and “Doctor Strange” will both be allowed to screen in China, sources tell Variety.
Both films appear likely to debut at roughly the same time that they bow in the United States. “Doctor Strange,” an adaptation of the popular comic book about a former surgeon who becomes a sorcerer, is the first out of the gate, and will hit the Middle Kingdom on Nov. 4.
“Fantastic Beasts’” date hasn’t officially been confirmed and could shift, but it appears that the “Harry Potter” spinoff will debut on Nov. 18.
China is the world’s second-largest film market, and can add tens of millions of dollars to a film’s gross. Previous Marvel releases such as “Iron Man 3” and “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” did more than $100 million in the People’s Republic. The “Harry Potter” franchise hasn’t been as successful, with the most recent film in the series making a little more than $60 million in the country. However, that film hit theaters five years ago, and China’s box office has continued to grow exponentially since that time.
China maintains a tight quota on the number of foreign productions it allows to screen in the country, limiting it to 34 non-Chinese films annually. It appears that the remaining slots are going fast. Just this week, “Trolls” scored a release date. “Inferno,” a thriller with Tom Hanks, and “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Ang Lee’s war drama, will also get screened in China.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in “Doctor Strange,” along with Tilda Swinton and Rachel McAdams. “Fantastic Beasts” is set in the world of Hogwarts, though it focuses on new characters. Eddie Redmayne stars, with David Yates, who directed several previous “Potter” adventures, sliding behind the camera.
Spokespeople for Disney, the studio behind “Doctor Strange,” and Warner Bros., the maker of “Fantastic Beasts,” declined to comment.
ttt for 2018!
This is rather dated but an echo of it popped up on my newsfeed randomly and so I chased down the source. This is the earliest I found.
Yoga is the work of the devil, says Vatican’s chief exorcist (and he doesn’t like Harry Potter much either)
And you’ll never guess what his favourite film is…
By Nick Pisa for MailOnline
UPDATED: 12:50 EST, 25 November 2011
Outspoken: Don Gabriele Amorth, the Chief Exorcist for the Vatican for the past 25 years, spoke of his dislikes at a fringe event of the Umbria Film Festival
Father Gabriel Amorth has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms in his capacity as Chief Exorcist at the Vatican.
The 85-year-old can boast 25 years in the post after being appointed by the late Pope John Paul II.
At a conference today, he surprised the delegates by revealing some of his greatest dislikes - yoga and Harry Potter.
Father Amorth, a colourful and often outspoken personality, said:‘Practising yoga brings evil as does reading Harry Potter. They may both seem innocuous but they both deal with magic and that leads to evil.’
He added:‘Yoga is the Devil’s work. You thing you are doing it for stretching your mind and body but it leads to Hinduism. All these oriental religions are based on the false belief of reincarnation.’
Father Amorth, speaking on the subject of People And Religion at a fringe event at the Umbria Film Festival in Terni, spoke of his distaste for JK Rowling’s young wizard.
He said:'People think it is an innocuous book for children but it’s about magic and that leads to evil. In Harry Potter the Devil is at work in a cunning and crafty way, he is using his extraordinary powers of magic and evil.
Twin terrors: Yoga turns devotees towards Hinduism, believes Father Amorth - while
'Satan is always hidden and the thing he desires more than anything is for people to believe he does not exist. He studies each and everyone of us and our tendencies towards good and evil and then he tempts us.
‘My advice to young people would be to watch out for nightclubs because the path is always the same: alcohol, sex, drugs and Satanic sects.’
It is not the first time that Father Amorth has raised eyebrows with his forthright views - last year he said that the ongoing child sex scandals rocking the Catholic Church were evidence that ‘the Devil was at work in the Vatican.’
[QUOTE]‘Satan studies each and everyone of us and our tendencies towards good and evil and then he tempts us’
While in 2006, Father Amorth, who was ordained a priest in 1954, gave an interview to Vatican Radio in which he said that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Russian dictator Josef Stalin were both possessed by the Devil.
According to secret Vatican documents recently released the then wartime Pope Pius XII attempted a ‘long distance exorcism’ of Hitler but it failed to have any effect.
It is also not the first time that Father Amorth, who is president of the International Association of Exorcists, has spoken out against Harry Potter saying in the past that it opens children’s minds to dabbling with the occult and black magic.
Horrific: Satan at work in the 1973 film starring Linda Blair which is perhaps unsurprisingly Father Amorth’s favourite film
Today Vanda Vanni, of the Italian Yoga Association, said:'A Satanic practice? Pardon the pun but that is an accusation that is neither in Heaven or on earth. Father Amorth’s accusation is completely without foundation.
'It is an outrageous thing to say - yoga is not a religion but a spiritual discipline. It is about freedom and a search to find one’s inner self. It does not touch religion and has nothing to do with Satanic sects nor does it encourage people to join them.
Giorgio Furlan, who runs the Yoga Academy in Rome, said`:'There are some paths of yoga which do lead towards Hinduism but other paths are more philosophical but their is no direct link with religion and certainly no link with Satanism.
'To say such things shows you have no idea of what you are talking about - yoga controls violent impulses of the nervous system and subconscious - to be honest with me it had the effect of bringing me closer to Christianity and in particular the Catholic Church which I had abandoned as a youngster.
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THREAD: Yoga
THREAD: Exorcism
THREAD: Harry Potter
FANTASTIC BEASTS 2 Trailer # 2 (NEW 2018) The Crimes of Grindelwald
In the wake of SDCC2018
Grindelwald & zouwu
So is the zouwu like a flower vase but in reverse?
NOVEMBER 23, 2018 1:04AM PT
‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Unlikely to Beat First Film in China
By BECKY DAVIS
CREDIT: YINGHANGTIANXIA
As it heads into its second weekend, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” looks set to fall well short of the box-office performance of the franchise’s first installment in China, despite a number of tailor-made attempts to woo Chinese audiences.
As of mid-afternoon Friday, six days after its release, “Grindelwald” had brought in about $46.3 million in the world’s second-biggest movie market. It was beaten at the box office Wednesday and Thursday by “Venom” and comedic Chinese crime thriller “A Cool Fish,” then dropped even further, to fifth place, by 3 p.m. Friday, muscled aside by new releases “Ralph Breaks the Internet” and “Johnny English Strikes Again,” starring Rowan Atkinson, who has a huge following in China.
2016’s “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” took in $86 million in China – nearly double the sequel’s current take – at a time when the country had significantly fewer screens than it has now. On Wednesday and Thursday, “Grindelwald” had about 70,000 screenings per day.
J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World remains extremely popular in the Middle Kingdom, where more people are likely to recognize Harry Potter than Prince Harry as an emissary of British culture. On Douban, a key Chinese user-review site, some 127,000 reviewers gave “Grindelwald“ a respectable aggregate 7.2 rating, but many complained that the story was too convoluted, a common criticism by Western reviewers as well.
“An installment that’s totally a setup for the next; it was way too dull, and the emotional scenes awkward and wooden,” said one of the most popular Douban reviews, which gave it just two stars. “The spectacle of the beasts was not as rich or interesting as it was in the first.”
Another three-star review cautioned: “The threshold for getting into it is very high – non-fans will be totally lost, and the plot is too messy. But the special effects were very good and the sets are very cool.”
The film hasn’t quite hit home with audiences despite the introduction of a Chinese “fantastic beast”: the zouwu, based on an obscure creature mentioned in the “Classic of Mountains and Seas,” an ancient Chinese text full of myths and mythical geography thought to date back to the 4th century B.C.
“This is how it is described in Chinese mythology: gigantic, elephant-sized cat, five-colored. It really does take a Newt Scamander to contain and look after that beast,” Rowling said in a promotional video for “Grindelwald.” She added: “There’s a Chinese bestiary that is utterly fascinating.”
The original classical text mentions the zouwu only briefly, stating: “In Lin Country, there are rare beasts. Big as a tiger, with a multi-colored body and a tail longer than its body, it is called the Zouwu, and riding it you can go a thousand li” – an ancient unit of measurement of about a third of a mile.
Chinese fans were charmed by Hollywood’s version of the fantastical cat, with some even saying they found it so cute that they dug out dusty copies of the classical text to find the reference. Many noted the irony of Hollywood picking up on a cultural element that even most Chinese people themselves didn’t know about, with one user on Weibo, China’s Twitter, writing: “Our ancestors left us many good things that we’ve never made full use of – a shame!”
“Grindelwald’s” marketing campaign also reached out to Chinese audiences with a gorgeous China-specific poster: a Chinese ink-brush painting of the zouwu and other creatures perched in a tree, done with the “gongbi” technique known for its highly precise strokes and realism. It was displayed at the film’s Beijing premiere, stretched out over a seven-paneled screen. The artist, Zhang Chun, had also created ink-brush portraits of six creatures for the first film, which went viral in China.
Some on Western fansites have chattered about the possibility that the zouwu could take the “Beasts” franchise to China. In the first film, a creature with the French name demiguise played a prominent role, and the next film was set in Paris.
Patrick Frater contributed to this report.
More zuowu
I would’ve reviewed this for KungFuMagazine.com if I had known. I was invited to a screener but I couldn’t think of a decent connection to Kung Fu (It was a reach to write ). I think I was busy when the screener was shown anyway. :o
The zouwu in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”
CULTURE
That Chinese creature in ‘Fantastic Beasts’ is surprisingly accurate
Gavin Huang
NOV 22, 2018
JK Rowling was inspired by Chinese mythology when she created one of the most dazzling creatures in the latest Fantastic Beasts movie.
The scene-stealing zouwu (), also called zouyu () in some Chinese texts, is an elephant-sized beast with the head of a tiger and the tail of a pheasant.
The zouwu in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”
The zouwu in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” / Photo: Warner Bros
Newt Scamander, the zoologist wizard played by Eddie Redmayne, encounters the furry beast wreaking havoc on the streets of Paris.
“It travels 1,000 miles in a day,” he says, “and can go from one district of Paris to another in a single leap.”
Scamander manages to tame the zouwu into cat-like composure with a furry ball reminiscent of the orb used in Chinese dragon dances.
Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, tames the zouwu in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” / Photo: Warner Bros
The creators of the Fantastic Beasts movie appear to have taken historical descriptions of the zouwu quite literally.
Their version has five shades of red and orange, a nod to the way it’s described in classical Chinese texts as having “five colors,” though the phrase is often used to describe anything that’s colorful or shiny, not necessarily with five colors.
The movie’s zouwu also bears resemblance to the Tai Hang fire dragon, a straw effigy adorned with incense sticks that’s paraded around Hong Kong once a year.
The zouwu (left) and the Tai Hang fire dragon (right). / Photo: Warner Bros/Shutterstock
The zouwu is not the only reference to Chinese culture in the film.
Ezra Miller, who plays Credence Barebone, told the Global Times that he based his character’s movements off tai chi.
Symbol of benevolence
In Chinese mythology, the zouwu first appears in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, a compendium of fictional creatures similar to Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The exact authors and time of writing remain unknown, though extant copies of the text date back to the Han Dynasty, which began around 200 BC.
A Ming Dynasty woodcut depicting the zouwu. / Photo: Wellcome Library
In later texts, the zouwu is described as a creature that only appears during the reign of benevolent rulers. A Ming Dynasty emperor supposedly received one from a relative in Henan.
Scholars now believe the gift might have been less mythological, and really a giant panda.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald made nearly $13 million on its opening day in China, a record for a Harry Potter film in the country.
Eddie Redmayne poses in front of a zouwu painting during a promotional event in Beijing for “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”
Eddie Redmayne poses in front of a zouwu painting during a promotional event in Beijing for “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” / Photo: Reuters
Production companies have been keen on developing films with the Chinese market in mind, infusing elements of Chinese culture wherever they can.
The zouwu didn’t exist in Rowling’s original book of fantastic beasts, but was specifically created for the film.
Gavin Huang
Gavin Huang is an editor at Goldthread. He was previously an editor at the Korea JoongAng Daily, the partner paper of The New York Times in Seoul, South Korea.
The first Kung Fu Panda-themed land
Wizarding World and Kung Fu Panda land coming to Universals future Beijing theme park
Kung-Fu Panda Land of Awesomess > Wizarding World
By Petrana Radulovic@Pet_rana Oct 14, 2019, 4:30pm EDT
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Universal Studios
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter will soon be coming to China. On Monday, Universal revealed that its planned Beijing resort will include seven themed lands from across all Universal properties. In addition to the popular Harry Potter land, Beijing will also be the home of Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness, Transformers: Metrobase, Minion Land, Jurassic World Isla Nublar, Hollywood Boulevard, and WaterWorld.
The Kung Fu Panda land will be the first Kung Fu Panda-themed land. The entirely indoor experience is designed to transport visitors to legendary China. Also unique to Universal Beijing Resort will be the Transformers: Metrobase land, which will expand upon the character of Metrobase and turn visitors into guest agents.
The Jurassic World area, however, is new to Universal parks, though three existing Universal Studios locations have Jurassic Park-themed areas.
Wizarding World of Harry Potter will get the Hogsmeade area for its the Beijing location. Meanwhile, WaterWorld continues to get a lot of love in Universal Studios Asia locations, as does Minion Land. Both appear in Universal Studios Japan and Singapore, with WaterWorld also in Universal Studios Hollywood.
These attractions will make up the Universal Studios component of the Universal Beijing Resort. Another park is in development, though no details have been revealed. In addition to the park areas, Universal Beijing Resort will boast a City Walk entertainment, dining, and retail complex, six different hotels, and eventually a water park. The first phase of the Universal Beijing Resort is set to open in spring 2021.
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Chinese Theme Parks
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Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
3D PRC re-release
China Box Office: 3D ‘Harry Potter’ Rerelease Wins the Weekend
11:33 PM PDT 8/16/2020 by Abid Rahman
Warner Bros./Photofest
‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’
‘Bad Boys For Life’ bombs as previews for local war epic ‘The Eight Hundred’ point to a monster opening next weekend.
Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone cast its spell over the box office in China this weekend, as Hollywood rereleases continue to entice people back to recently reopened cinemas.
The 3D, 4K rerelease of the first film in Warner Bros’ multi-billion dollar franchise was able to magic up a stellar $13.4 million this weekend, according to local box office consultancy Artisan Gateway. The strong showing from The Sorcerer’s Stone pushed the total box office to $21.9 million, the best single weekend performance since China’s cinemas reopened.
Theaters in China are now into their fourth week of reopening after a COVID-19 enforced lockdown put in place back in January. Despite the restart, the country’s exhibitors are still operating with limits on the number of screens and strict social distancing measures on top of having a public still wary about returning to the movies. The stronger week-to-week performance is in stark contrast to the year-on-year decline of 92.8 percent.
Puffed up partly by higher-priced IMAX admissions, on Saturday The Sorcerer’s Stone scored the biggest single-day take since the restart and its total China gross, including all previous releases, now stands at $21.4 million according to Artisan Gateway. The China rerelease of the 2001 film, based on the first book of J.K. Rowling’s phenomenally successful book series, is edging the movie closer to a $1 billion worldwide cume.
In second place was Sony’s delayed release of Bad Boys For Life which made a modest $3.1 million. The post-COVID-19 theatrical landscape has notably lacked new Hollywood releases but the third film in the Bad Boys franchise didn’t bring the crowds out, with the film hampered by its lukewarm critical reception including a 5.7/10 rating on the popular media review platform Douban.
Coming in third was local war epic The Eight Hundred which made an impressive $2 million in previews. Directed by Guan Hu and produced by Huayi Bros., The Eight Hundred is an $80 million tentpole based on a pivotal battle in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese war: the historic siege and defense of the Si Hang Warehouse in Shanghai where 400 fighters, an unlikely mix of soldiers, deserters and civilians became known as the “Eight Hundred Heroes," after holding out against waves of Japanese forces for four days and four nights.
The hotly anticipated war film was originally supposed to be released last summer but had its world premiere dramatically pulled from the Shanghai Film Festival and then its nationwide release canceled at the 11th hour by China’s censors, although no official reason has ever been given.
With stellar reviews, an 8.1 rating on Douban and buoyed by nationalistic fervor, The Eight Hundred should breakout big next weekend when it goes on general release.
The rerelease of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar continued to rack up solid numbers, making another $1.3 million this weekend. Including its original run, the 2014 sci-fi epic, which stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, has now made $123.9 million in China.
Interstellar’s strong performance and Nolan’s name recognition in China bodes well for the Middle Kingdom release of his high concept sci-fi movie Tenet, which has cleared the country’s censors and is set to be released on Sept. 4. To drum up a little more Nolan-mania in China, Warner Bros. is also rereleasing Inception in the country on Aug. 28.
Rounding out the top five this weekend was the rerelease of Sam Quah’s 2019 crime drama Sheep Without a Shepherd which made $1.1 million and now has a cume of $187.7 million.
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David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived
Daniel Radcliffe To EP Doc About His Stunt Double Left Paralyzed After Deathly Hallows Accident
By Max Goldbart
International TV Co-Editor
October 24, 2023 6:00am
Daniel Radcliffe (left) and David Holmes
Sky
Daniel Radcliffe is exec producing a documentary about his former stunt double who was left paralyzed following an accident on the Harry Potter set.
Sky and HBO Documentary Films are behind David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, the coming-of-age story of a prodigious teenage gymnast who formed an inextricable bond with Harry Potter star Radcliffe.
Holmes was working on Deathly Hallows: Part 1 when an explosion that was part of a planned stunt sent him plummeting to the ground, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down with a debilitating spinal injury that turned his life upside down.
Featuring candid personal footage shot over the last decade, behind-the-scenes material from Holmes stunt work, scenes of his current life and intimate interviews with him, Radcliffe, friends, family, and former crew, the film reflects universal themes of living with adversity, growing up and the bonds that bind people together.
Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinns Lightbox along with Holmes and Amy Stares Ripple Productions are producing the doc, which will air next month.
Radcliffe is exec producing with Holmes, director Dan Hartley, Sue Latimer, Sarah Spahovic, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Tina Nguyen and Poppy Dixon. Producers are Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Vanessa Davies and Stares.
I’ll watch this.
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived
Jerry, a Western teenager who is learning magic, mistakenly enters the #ShaolinTemple
Lin Yu-ting
Chinese Taipei fans hammer JK Rowling over ‘trans’ comments aimed at boxer
Author, a vocal opponent to trans rights, calls Lin Yu-ting part of the ‘insanity’ of trans athletes competing in women’s sport
Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Lo Hoi-ying
Published: 3:30pm, 2 Aug 2024
Harry Potter author JK Rowling is facing the wrath of netizens in Taiwan after she challenged female Chinese Taipei boxer Lin Yu-ting’s eligibility to compete in the Paris Olympics.
Rowling, a vocal opponent to trans rights, said Lin was part of the “insanity” of trans athletes competing in women’s sport.
She shared an article on social media platform X about Lin and Algerian boxer Imane Khelif being authorised to compete in the Olympics despite failing gender eligibility tests last year.
Despite the rumours, fans of both stars were quick to share images of them as young girls, dismissing the suggestion they are trans and that simply the two have a higher testosterone level.
“Everyone in Taiwan hates JK Rowling now,” one X user wrote.
“Lin started boxing to protect her mother who has been abused by her father since young, and ended up being a national player. I don’t know what kind of magic can save Rowling now,” one user on Threads wrote.
“Does Rowling even know what she is saying? In the future I will be switching channels if Harry Potter comes up,” another added.
Cheng Shih-Chung, director general of the self-ruled Sports Administration, said on Wednesday that Asia’s Olympic Council has conducted a thorough examination of Lin and confirmed she is fully eligible to compete.
Cheng called the accusations discriminatory and a deliberate attempt to undermine Lin’s mental state by planting rumours in the media.
The topic of trans rights at the Olympics has been hotly debated in recent days. Italy’s Angela Carini quit her bout with Khelif after only 46 seconds, and afterwards repeated the words: “It’s not right.”
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) defended its decision to allow both female boxers to compete, and dismissed the International Boxing Association’s decision to disqualify them last year for failing to meet gender eligibility tests.
Lin, born in 1995, is a two-time world champion and assured supporters she was not affected by the noise as she had deleted all social media apps.
Both Khelif and Lin competed at Tokyo Games as women.
Taiwan, which legalised same sex marriage in 2019, has been lauded as a beacon for LGBTQ rights in Asia for its progressiveness and inclusivity.
Lo Hoi-ying
Hoi-ying became a reporter at the City desk in 2023 after finishing the Post’s Graduate Trainee Programme. Originally from Singapore, she previously worked as a television news producer at Mediacorp and interned at the Shanghai-based Sixth Tone. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from the University of Hong Kong and holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Nanyang Technological University.[QUOTE]
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