Vic Liu

I guess not but I’m looking forward to seeing the result. In this case Hong Kong should not be separated by China. Then only Taipei is separated. It’s not a beautiful art anymore and the purpose is over exposed. Obscurity is the art of Japan.

China is not offended at all. China hopes to lead right after Hong Kong and Taipei, but it’s fine if it doesn’t make it. Taipei asked to split them from China in Beijing 2008 and China agreed so I think it will not be barrier for other OG. But still it needs some sort of art to make it natural as what Japan just did.

Japanese are quite smart. Only Korea, China and Japan three NOCs are written in Kanji (Chinese Character), all other NOCs are written in Hiragana(phonetic Romanization). On one hand, it shows respect to neighbors because Kanji seems more classic than Hiragana. On the other hand, it splits Chinese Taipei and China to avoid sequence next to each other if written in Kanji at the same. It makes all sides satisfied.

Pro liberalism is allowed. Pro conservatism is forbidden. How dare you go against universal values!

Not really. The hierarchy of World Cup quota higher than Continental quota. Only if Japan decline the World Cup quota purposely they may have the continental quota. But I am not sure if it works this way. Because continental quota goes to NOC but WC goes to individual. So every NOC prefers the NOC one. Then China and Japan will both decline the WC quota. If it works this way, it's a bug. At the end, the qualification system is way too complicated full of calculation. It's not good for anyone.

@MHSN If the Japanese in vault scoring more than 15.086 which never happen before, the he will receive the vault quota and the one in pommel horse lose it. Then Iran will get it.

China doesn’t have right to pick. China indeed prefer to pick this rather than parallel bars. But China is forced to pick that one by rule. This one goes to Japan 95%.

China will pick Liu Yang anyway and still have two quotas. The World Cup quota of China goes to You Hao so Russia seemingly lost the World Cup quota. But Russia have continental and AA cup reallocation quotas. So Russia still have two quotas. what a wonderful outcome, Liu Yang and Pentrounis both go to Tokyo. Greece gained one more quota without reducing China and Russia’s. But it’s this complicated calculation and balancing thought hurt this sport most! We need fair score not fame score, not balancing score. It’s not geopolitics!

He lost the tie break with Japanese. Theoretically he still has chance waiting another Japanese gymnast’s result. But I think the possibility is very low.

I just witnessed how unfair and corrupt it can be for scoring sports.

It's rarely seen that China publicly pick a side to support in international dispute. But suddenly China began widely reported that China support Argentina on Malvinas and calling for end of colonization. Everybody knows it's for anti-UK but I don't see we have a sudden escalation of conflict with UK, So I am quite confused about the timing. Anyway, it's a good news for Argentina that we can sell weapons to them without fear of UK ban or threatens which Western democracies can't offer.

Because if he wins then he ties to Liu Yang. So they have to compare the average scores of best 3 stages. Liu Yang didn’t attend this stage, so his average score is fixed. To surpass Liu, Petronius has to achieve above 15.333 based on calculation, ie at least 15.366 in reality.

Most famous American swimmer in China lately Sierra Schmidt.

Orban is a very smart politician. The whole Europe just play as the script he wrote both internationally and domestically. He just know Western Europe will seize the opportunity to show moral superiority and judge and it will help him win more support when Hungarians against foreign interference.

China mainstream media and foreign ministry these days keep urging all citizens leave Afghanistan ASAP. It indicates that Taliban may control most land and the country will be back to chaos even whole scale civil war soon. We will soon have a another Middle East mess to follow. Let’s see how the US troops withdrawal process.

China is reportedly withdrawn from Doha World Cup stage to avoid quarantine back to China and keep the consistent training pace before the OG. Especially there are two more internal trials on 24th June and early July. It’s a dangerous decision to make. China may lose the World Cup quota if all 3 main opponents win the event with a specifically targeted score. I think there is 20%-30% possibility. So it’s see if Greece will seize this opportunity.

No official one. But all trials finished and I watched most of them so I can guess the squad. The only unpredictable part is that Cao Yuan withdrew the last trials due to injury. Here is my guess Men's 10m single: Yang Jian, Lian Junjie Men's 10m synchro: Chen Aisen & Cao Yuan (back-up Yang Jian) Men's 3m single: Xie Siyi, Wang Zongyuan Men's 3m synchro: Xie Siyi & Wang Zongyuan Women's 10m single: Chen Yuxi, Quan Hongchan Women's 10m synchro: Chen Yuxi & Zhang Jiaqi Women's 3m single: Shi Tingmao, Wang Han Women's 3m synchro: Shi Tingmao & Wang Han Total 6 men and 5 women. If Cao Yuan absent it would be 5 men and 5 women.

And also some particular athletes Sindhu-Badminton Lee Dae Hoon-Taekwondo An Chang Rim-Judo Jonatan Christie-Badminton Carlos Yulo-Gymnastics Seto Daiya-Swimming

My gold medal wish list top5: 1. Women's Volleyball 2. Gymnastics Men's team 3. Swimming Women's 100m/200m fly-Zhang Yufei 4. Athletics Women's Shot Put-Gong Lijiao 5. Rowing M2X-Zhang Liang & Liu Zhiyu

I am fan of Rafael Nadal but I hope Roger Federer could win men's single in his maybe last five events.

So to be short, Raeisi is pickep by Khamenei and expected to be the next no.1 person so Khamenei disqualified all his real rivals to help him win. Do I get it right? And another question what changes can we expect when the ultra conservative president take over the moderate one, both domestically and diplomatically?

On day1 for sure. Hopefully with at least 1 gold and 3 medals. I don't wanna see the Rio tragedy once again. Gold Chance: Women's 10m Air Rifle (30%) Women's 49kg Weightlifting (80%) Women's Individual Epée (20%) Medal Chance: Men's 10m Air Pistol (20%) Mixed Team Recurve Archery (30%)

Tian Tao and Deng Wei are both injured. So it's not surprising that they are not selected. Tian Tao underperformed in the Asian Championships which also served as national trial and Deng Wei was absent.

At that time OG had huge amount of points only less than Grand Slam in my memory. But now not only on money but also no points.

China finished trials but not announced the list yet. The debatable part is that if standard A in prelims and past events count when the number is not full in finals. My personal guess is that prelims count but past events don't. Still we don't know when to announce the list.