Taiwan dragon boat athlete found dead in shaft.

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A member of Taiwan’s gold medal-winning dragon boat team at the 2018 Asian Games was found dead at the bottom of a shaft of a construction site in Taoyuan on Thursday, local police said. Workers at the site of a sewage project in the city’s Taoyuan District discovered a man floating in water that had accumulated at the bottom of the 14m-deep shaft as they were preparing to pump the water out, police said. The man was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The deceased was confirmed to be 28-year-old Taoyuan resident Chen Yu-an, who was a member of a Taiwanese dragon boat team that won three medals at the 2018 Asian Games. CCTV footage showed Chen crashing a motorcycle through a fence near the opening of the shaft, and then falling into the 3m-wide hole. The Sports Administration yesterday expressed sadness over Chen’s death and said it would provide his family with NT$200,000 in condolence money.