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TAR China 3 - SHOW Discussion and WIKI Assistance (No SPOILERS)
georgiapeach:
Interesting tidbit.
--- Quote ---Former hurdler Liu Xiang's appearance as Sailor Moon received mass online mockery
Meanwhile, retired Olympic hurdler Liu Xiang made headlines last week, albeit for all the wrong reasons.
Just before the Olympics, he recorded an episode for reality show The Amazing Race China, dressed in cosplay as 1990s Japanese cartoon character Sailor Moon. Perhaps predictably, that caused a stir online.
While the segment was meant to be humorous, thousands took to social media to mock how "beautiful" he appeared dressed as a woman.
Some criticised his "crossdressing", saying he "seriously damaged his image" by appearing in such a way, and others said they now find him "disgusting".
There are also users asking more critically whether he has fallen on hard times since his Olympic fame back in 2004, when he won the first track and field gold medal for China.
Sailor MoonImage copyright Getty Images
Image caption
Japanese animation Sailor Moon was hugely popular in the 1990s
If Liu thought the worst was over, he was wrong. A week later, social media users were asking again whether he was struggling financially after he announced that he was filing a lawsuit against online taxi service Didi, China's answer to Uber.
Xinhua says Liu claims that Didi used images of him without his authorisation in online advertising.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37025722
Maanca:
Poor guy :( Yes, that is a risk with TAR China's celebrity-based casting. They have an image to uphold, put them in embarrassing costumes or situations (like the Sailor Moon task) and the tabloids will be chomping at the bit to tear them down.
Not so, of course, when it's more average people.
dryedmangoez:
That's horrible.
I guess TAR China isn't going to be recycling the TAR26 Phuket cabaret task any time soon.
NumfarPTB:
Not surprised by the reaction, dressing-up like that would definitely be viewed by local viewers as making a fool of oneself. And in Chinese pop culture, and I get the impression that might be common for other major East Asian cultures (like Japanese or South Korean), those type of "making fool of yourself" type of things should not be done by most celebrities, it's kind of something reserved for what's called in mandarin 諧星（Xie-Xin), I can't really find a proper translation for this term, while Google Translates just gives me "Comedian" which ain't an exact translation at all. Those type of celebrities not exactly common in western cultures, the only person that I can think of that comes slightly close to what would be considered Xie-Xin in the US would be Conan O'Brien, and that seems like a stretch, cause there's also some level of being a C or D-list star associated with the expression. All of this just to say, that "making a fool of oneself" like that would only be appropriate for those types of celebrities, not an Olympian, thus the unsurprising backlash.
G.B.:
Hello everyone!
So we had a lot more penalties, but I wasn't quite able to follow them this time. What did Tingting/Rui and Zhehan/Sifan do wrong in the Detour?
Hopefully the Chinese Wiki will be updated soon, but if it's not...What was the location of the two Detours and the U-Turn board? (They're shown on the map in Chinese)
Aaaaand, here's the Detour names and Roadblock prompt. Please transcribe them, thank you!
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