10月1日，在杭州亚运会女子100米栏决赛中，中国选手林雨薇、吴艳妮参赛,100米栏决赛之后，获得第一名的林雨薇（6道）与暂或第二名的吴艳妮（4道）互相拥抱鼓励，享受全场观众的热烈欢呼，但两人的号码却意外组成了“六四”。 巧合的是，9月30日吴艳妮在杭州亚运会首秀时（女子100米栏预赛第二组），她站上了第9跑道，所佩戴的号牌是“9”，赛后她与第8道的韩国选手JO Eunju相拥，两人组成了“八九”。
Lin Yuwei and Wu Yanni, China’s entrants in the women’s 100m hurdles final, embraced after the race at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Lin won gold in the race with a time of 12.74 seconds. A photograph of the two women in profile showed Lin’s lane number, 6, next to Wu’s lane number, 4.
“6/4” is a common reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre in the early hours of 4 June 1989. Discussion of the killings and the protests that preceded them are strictly controlled in China, with a wide range of references routinely scrubbed from China’s internet.
