Vic Liu

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.

He is absolutely talented and with great potential to be super star in the future. His way of playing is quite enjoyable for spectators. Of course if he wins tomorrow then he is already a super star who defeat Fan Zhendong in the WCh final!

Quotas distribution by my friends and my understanding of the document and past experience of 2018 WOG.(mainly credit to @Function CR Lee). Some notes of it: 1. BEL's Mixed relay berth is replaced by 13th POL because only 1 men and 1 women qualified 2. POL got an extra men's quota and KAZ got an extra women's quota to fulfill the minimum mixed relay requirement, ie 2 men and 2 women. 3. POL got an extra women's quota because after procedure 2 still one more women's quota available so it gave to the only women's relay team not full yet.

I did it by NOC too but we have difference. I don't go through all quotas yet but I always keep on eye on KOR's quotas so I am quite sensitive to our difference. Below is our paper sheet on Men's 500m and KOR is 36th.

May I confirm that you calculate the ranking by NOC1, NOC2, NOC3 of each stage and not by name? Because by my friends and my calculation, KOR3 is not on TOP32 on Men's 500m nor Women's 500m. Our work is not finished yet and still checking but I want to confirm the method first.

It's the Olympic venue. Basically Taiwu and Secret Garden are at the same place(Chongli, Zhangjiakou) but run by different enterprises.

Today's ski cross world cup in Zhangjiakou is the second WOG test event with spectators. Different from the Luge event that I knew the spectators news from media, I can see the crowds clearly on live with some close-up views today.

First WC gold medal for Geng Wenqiang. Looking forward to the performance at home (with four rounds).

From Chinese OG champion Yang Haoran who attend a briefing session for athletes during President Cup, 1. 2022 WCh will allocate up to 1 quota per event for each NOC 2. 2023 continental championships will allocate up to 1 quota per event for each NOC 3. rest quotas will by allocated by ranking and no quotas will be allocated through World Cup. It may change because of feedbacks from different sides.

He also has another mental health card.

BBC (aka constitution of democracy) declares it's a clear murder but manipulated and corrupt judges and jurors announced he's innocent. So let's welcome to the world of arbitrary murders. No one's gonna save and liberate the poor Americans by bombing their houses? At least sanction those officials!

Though I understand that OCA wants to make it step by step to get Oceania involved into Asian Games, I think Oceania should be counted on medal table and receiving identical medals. Furthermore, I think we should treat Oceania as Asian countries in terms of sports games or federations. I would like to see more OG quotas allocated to Asia and Oceania combined. The reason is quite simple. Australia takes advantage of current quota allocation system. Firstly and obviously enough, Australia earn a lot of team sports quotas almost in a free path as Oceania representative. Moreover, if Australia finds themselves cannot earn the free quota then they choose to join Asia federation and takes advantage of us, especially FIFA world cup. When they find the 0.5 Oceania quota is useless they just quit. So to be fair, I would rather Oceania joins Asia system wholly instead of picking some sports favoring themselves and I also would like to see Asian Games and other continental events more competitive with the Oceanian teams.

I like the easily understood wording of the PM.

Thanks Denmark for 12points! @Wumo

Thank you Vietnam. I know it. We can appreciate each other. Sorry that Avicii is unbeatable for me here.

Thanks Poland for the 8 points.

Good luck for both of us and let's exchange information if necessary.

Luge World Cup in Beijing became the first WOG test event with spectators. Last night's match invited 300 Yanqing (Beijing suburb) local spectators. Though still no tickets publicly available, hopefully it's one more step closer for me to get ticket during WOG.

It’s livestream so you can have millions of video clips.