The Chinese government was shamed by netizens for taking credit for the success of Olympic gold medal-winner Margaret Mac Neil, blasting China’s one-child policy which was in place for decades. On July 26 in Tokyo, Mac Neil gained international fame after winning the first gold medal for Canada in the women’s 100-metre butterfly, defeating Chinese swimmer Zhang Yufei and setting an Americas region record at the same time. Mac Neil’s success also drew attention to her Chinese heritage, when both Western and Chinese state-run media reported the 21-year-old to have been an abandoned baby in China who was later adopted by a Canadian couple, Edward Mac Neil and Susan McNair. Speculation about Mac Neil’s biological parents led netizens on the Chinese blogging website Weibo to condemn the country’s one-child policy, which according to official estimates had prevented at least 400 million births as of 2014, when the campaign was terminated. Launched by the …