Vic Liu

Japan just announced the Olympic list during the conference of National Championships. The list is consistent with the ranking of National Championships as expected. Men: Yuzuru Hanyu, Shoma Uno, Yuma Kagiyama Women: Kaori Sakamoto, Wakabi Huguchi, Mana Kawabe Ice Dance: Misato Komatsubara / Tim Koleto Pairs: Riku Miura/ Ryuichi Kihara

I didn't see the mass start event. How to decide the first MS quota? @heywoodu

China doesn't have any official Awards this year due to Covid and the coming WOG i guess. So the below is voted by internet fans. Best Male Athlete: Su Bingtian (Athletics) Best Female Athlete: Zhang Yufei (Swimming) Best Pair/Group: Olympic Women's 4*200m freestyle swimming relay team Best Team: Olympic Shooting team Best Newcomer: Quan Hongchan (Diving) Best International Female Athlete: Elaine Thompson (Athletics Jamaica) Best International Male Athlete: Caeleb Dressel (Swimming USA) Best International Newcomer: Lamont Marcell Jacobs (Athletics Italy) Best International Team: Olympic Italian Athletics Team Chinese fans are really obsessed with Athletics and Swimming.

NHL is quite consistent with IIHF which will make final decision every 15 days and as serious as monthly losing weight resolution.

Loh Kean Yew is the kew king in heart. He has to prevent injuries to maintain his aggressive way of playing. He got a lot of new fans at least in China.

I must admit 9 golds is an optimistic estimate. The official expectation is 6 golds but I insist my prediction (there are many events by scoring you know).

My early prediction of China. It's a relatively optimistic version as the host. I may update the prediction when most skiing world cups finished. Speed Skating 2 medals (1 gold) - Men's 500m and 1500m Short Track Speed Skating 6 medals (3 golds) - Men's 500m/1000m/1500m, Men/Women/Mixed Relay Figure Skating 1 medal (1 gold) - Pairs Curling 1 medal - Women's Team Skeleton 1 medal - Men's Skeleton Freestyle Skiing 6 medals (3 golds) - Men/Women/Mixed Aerials, Women's Halfpipe/Slopestyle/Big Air Snowboarding 2 medals (1 gold) - Men's Big Air and Women's Halfpipe Total 19 medals and 9 golds

I think it a very long and complicated process to determine the head-counts of each NOC but it's not definitely to be a cruel quotas cut as it seems. For example, Van De Poel earned two quotas on 5000m and 10000m for but they will just send one person and Huang Yu-ting earned 3 quotas on 500/1000/1500m for , also very likely just sent herself alone. So I think all depends and we have to wait trials results.

https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links-2/2022-beijing/internal-documentation-1/26593-provisional-special-olympic-qualification-classification-for-allocation-of-quota-places/file ISU updated the provisional quotas after SLC stage. But it didn't change the method which is consistent to last cycle but apparently not the current one. My understanding of the current document is that 3 full quotas could be only obtained by points and never by time and also W3000m should give China a host quota as the 2nd person in on reserve list.

ISU released official quota distribution form. One difference from my own version, there are 57 men and 55 women! Gender imparity and Bach is watching you. https://isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/26690-isu-communication-2442/file

I think you mean team pursuit. Yes, 6 teams by points and 2 of remaining teams by fastest time. Japan have a very good chance to be the 2 fastest time if they surpass KOR's performance in USA.

Happy to learn a new phase "ministerial boycott" and maybe "vice ambassador boycott" is yet to come.

Obviously IOC will send the samples to Washington DC and Canberra to do the test.

IIHF has confirmed like 100 times. Someone will challenge this in 15 days and IIHF will be pleased to reconfirm it like in 30 days. I feel like I am watching Happy Death Day.

May I know how to determine CHN 6 quotas? After reading document and the example, I still don't get it.

First men’s big air final and first gold medal! Congrats to Su Yiming who was a movie star and now a WC champion!

I read them, horrible. I don't know why every cycle with a new format. Who the hell will benefit from it?

If you mean aerial, it's the second individual event with same points as yesterday's but with just one round to determine the ranking. It's also functioned as qualification round of mixed team event. It will be held just 2 hours later.

According Japanese mainstream media asashi.com, Grand Prix Final scheduled in Japan has been cancelled due to the travel ban for foreigners over omicron variant concern. If ISU will relocate the GPF is not clear yet but I think the possibility is quite low given the insufficient preparation time.

Two years ago now.

I just watched the video. It's not one of the three trials I mentioned. It's just a warm up match after the list published. @MHSN

He is not going to retire immediately nor any other olympians. They will play Chinese league match and still may attend next year’s group WCH and Asian Games. I think the main reason is the commercial value. They will fade out in a very slow pace. Even Zhang Jike didn’t announce retirement. The other question there are three trials for this WCH, the champion of each trial will earn a berth. Ma Long didn’t won any of these. To be clear Fan Zhendong won twice and Liang Jingkun won once so three other persons are chosen by the association. The official reason of absence of veterans are to keep healthy and avoid injuries after highly competitive OG season.

China just announced withdrawal due to the pandemic concern. The Chinese weightlifting official social media account was still promoting participating athletes days ago so it's a very urgent decision. It's not a good sign. I'm afraid more and more withdrawal will appear.

@NearPup said it right. To prepare Paris cycle, Ma Long obviously will not attend Paris OG as well as Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen.

By different calculation method. Let's wait the ISU confirmation then.