Photograph of China’s women’s 100m hurdles winner hugging another Chinese athlete at the Asian Games is CENSORED in their homeland… but can you figure out why?
A photo of Chinese athlete Lin Yuwei hugging her opponent Wu Yanni at the end of a 100 metre hurdles race has been censored in their home country.
Lin was victorious in the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou and embraced her fellow Chinese athlete in an emotional moment.
However, after only a few hours the image was removed by Chinese media or edited due to a reason that many sports fans wouldn’t even have contemplated.
The two athletes raced in lanes 6 and 4 – as shown in the photo by the numbers they were wearing.
But while that seems innocuous to most people, Beijing has outlawed the numbers on social media due to their link to the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre – June 4, 1989 – when Chinese troops shot dead hundreds of pro-democracy protesters.