Vic Liu

provisional quotas after 1st WC stage Men: 3 2 1 Women: 3 2 1

I tend to believe she's muted on censored social media rather than disappearance. Believe me, she will appear when this drama finally ended and I admire her courage to say this on Weibo rather than Facebook or Twitter. It means she knows what she is doing and she is ready to accept the consequences.

For those who don’t read Peng Shuai’s post and only receive interpretation from media, I want to clarify Peng Shuai’s post is not mainly accusing sexual assault. She is mad at the man not respond her message and not granting her legal recognition after sex. She felt her putting love in the relationship but the man drop her into dustbin. I don’t think this kind of thing never happen in western country.

don’t be so pessimistic. I still expect somehow we can get tickets. If I find the local ways to get tickets I will post here if anyone else interested. I went to Xi‘an early this year to watch the National Games and knew some methods to obtain ‘local’ tickets now.

Weird enough, this site it not blocked for me! Also CNN is not blocked but nytimes and BBC is blocked for me.

I am not sure if China team pursuit got provisional quota despite of DQ. But I tend to think we are provisionally qualified based on my own interpretation of the document. I think as long as we are on top 11 (8 qualified teams + 3 reserve list teams) then we are qualified. Since there are only 11 teams registered so China is qualified for sure. I am eager to know others' thought about it and below is the qualification document and the relevant part. D.2.2 If the host country does not earn at least two (2) quota places in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, Mass Start (Women and Men), 3000m Women and 5000m Men and at least one (1) quota place in the 5000m Women and 10000m Men in D.2.1 but it has athletes who are placed in the respective events/distances Reserve List (as per D.2.5), for each individual event concerned the host country will be allocated event quota places considering also athletes ranked in the Reserve list, up to a maximum of two (2) athletes in the 500m, 1000m, 1500m, Mass Start (Women and Men), 3000m Women and 5000m Men and one (1) quota place in the 5000m Women and 10000m Men. For each of the Team Pursuit events the host country will be allocated an event quota place also in the case that the host country is only ranked in a Reserve list position. D.2.5 Reserve List When the maximum total of quota places for an event/distance (as specified above) has been reached, the next SOQC positions per event/distance will constitute a reserve list of quota places. For each of the individual events/distances the reserve list consists of eight (8) reserve quota places. For each of the Team Pursuit events the reserve list consists of three (3) reserve quota places. https://www.isu.org/docman-documents-links-2/2022-beijing/qualification-systems-3/24307-speed-skating-v1-1/file

Who can resist Avicii.

I am out to have dinner with friends right now so I missed my voting time. But I will follow it on my phone. And finally we have 2 points from portugal. Thanks.

Mine either

Anyone knows why China women team pursuit got DQ?

Using VPN is the most practical way. It’s not strict even for Chinese like me so it should be absolutely fine for foreigners in China. Still a little inconvenient I know but you have to learn to compromise in China.

Gao Tingyu won 500m at 34.26s with a 0.28s margin in Poland! Gao proves himself once again after his 33.83s national record on plateau early this year.

Badminton Tokyo OG silver medalist Li Junhui announced retirement due to constant injuries on his Weibo account. Good luck in the new chapter of life.

Because Afghan lives don’t matter according to western human right values. At least 1000 Afghan lives worth one sentence of Nalvany and 100 Afghan lives worth a Hong Kong activist pleading guilty.

Hong Kong Sandy Lam - Clang Rose

Singapore JJ Lin - Twilight

I will pick and .

https://www.iihf.com/en/news/29965/iihf_council_meeting_concludes_(1) “To be clear, the IIHF is not going to remove the Chinese team from the Olympic Games, the status of the men’s national team as a host nation participant in the Olympic ice hockey tournament was confirmed by Congress and remains unchanged.” said IIHF President Luc Tardif. “We are working with the CIHA to confirm their player eligibility according to IIHF rules, and we will continue to assist them as they work towards preparing their team for the Olympic Games.”

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What a drama night, isn't it? Hu Xuwei made a 6.7 D score routine which is never seen before.

As chaotic as usual

Our Zhang Boheng won the battle against Hashimoto in Japan! Happy for his worlds champion title but regretful for his absence on OG.

There is no rumor that AG will be postponed or canceled yet. And I think with the experience of SOG and WOG the bubble would be functioned very well if the pandemic still exists that time. So personally I think the AG will be held as scheduled.

Not necessarily. Our 1st could be Shi Yuqi or Lu Guangzu and the 2nd and 3rd could be the same as today, our cute 2018 YOG champion Li Shifeng and young player Weng Haoyang. It’s the first major test for young athletes of the new Olympic cycle.

Basically Shi Yuqi didn't say too much useful in interview. He said he suffers from continuous injuries and he felt pain. He chose to quit at the match point is to avoid unexpected injury happens. If he's really that painful then he will not be selected tomorrow but without him, our chance to win is very low.