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Episode: Hong Kong hits back at Italy’s protest against fencer Cheung’s win with posts on pineapple pizza
Description: Hong Kong fencer Cheung Ka-long’s victory over Italy’s Filippo Macchi at the Paris Olympics has sparked an exchange of insults on social media, with Cheung’s supporters celebrating his win with posts about pineapple pizzas—widely considered a culinary blunder in Italian cooking.
Cheung made Hong Kong history in July by beating Macchi 15-14 in the men’s foil. That triumph made Cheung, who had won the Tokyo Games in 2021, the first Hong Konger to bag two gold medals.
The bout required three stoppages for video reviews to determine the deciding point as the fencing machine registered scores from both...