This is actually a nice story.

Taiwan News: Limassol, Cyprus (Sept. 28) The event's organizer International Association for the Development of Apnea (AIDA) suddenly yanked the Taiwan flag from the leader board on its live-streaming broadcast without warning.

AIDA International President Alexandru Russu apologized to the Taiwan team for the sudden change, explaining the decision was made after live streaming was blocked in China and said there was no plan to restore the flag.

Typical spineless one-everything official.

AIDA Japan then issued a post on Facebook requesting the event's organizers to also remove Japan's flag (saying) .. "this is the only small resistance we can make against the horrible political interference."

"Only Taiwan is disadvantaged. We wish to share the pain with Taiwan" and "not allow politics to interfere in our sport."

Subsequently, athletes from Russia, the U.S., Croatia, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, France, Germany, and Slovenia also requested their flags be removed to show solidarity with their Taiwanese competitors.

Separately, i see Anonymous hacked official PRC websites and inserted pro-Taiwan stuff.