The doubles win by Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin was Taiwan’s second gold medal, after Kuo Hsing-Chun won in weightlifting, and added to its biggest medal haul in Olympic history. Taiwan sits 18th in the table. China is first. Nevertheless, social media was awash with celebrations.

In a post on Facebook, Lee dedicated the win to “my country, Taiwan”. President Tsai Ing-wen congratulated the team for “winning the first badminton gold medal in our country”. Both phrases were deliberate, and fed into a reignited debate over a decades-old rule that has forced the island’s team to compete at the Olympics under “Chinese Taipei”, a name that exists on no map…

Today, the IOC won’t even tweet Taiwan’s flag emoji in its medal announcements…

“We are not Chinese, not from Taipei. We are Indigenous from Taiwan,” tweeted Taiwan’s presidential spokeswoman Kolas Yotaka. “We are representing our land and winning medals at the Olympics, and celebrating Taiwan Indigenous Day [1 August].”