Taiwanese officials have announced that the athletes will not participate in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, which will open on the 4th of next month.
Taiwan plans to send a delegation of 15 people, including four athletes, to the Beijing Olympics, but according to Taiwanese authorities, all of them will be at the opening ceremony to respond to the measures taken by the Chinese side to prevent infection with the new coronavirus. In addition to not being able to meet, many of the athletes are away from Beijing on the day of the closing ceremony, so they decided not to participate.
As China-Taiwan relations cooled, there were concerns in Taiwan that China would treat Taiwan as part of China when attending the opening and closing ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics.