
Reuters: Chinese Olympian causes storm in Japanese flag top
Former Olympic basketball player Sui Feifei has caused an internet furore by wearing a trendy Ed Hardy tracksuit top featuring the Japanese flag to collect her Chinese Coach of the Year award at the weekend. Sui, coach of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) team and technically a serving officer in China's military, provoked the ire of nationalists after being pictured in the designer top at the Women's Chinese Basketball Association awards in Jiangsu. "Fire Sui Feifei! A PLA wearing a Japanese sweater!" one poster wrote on sports.cn.yahoo.com. "She has to realise that she is a PLA officer. It is unacceptable for her to wear such a sweater in a public place. It stimulated the most sensitive nerve of people"...more...