Vic Liu

Continental mixed team championships just finished, at the same time another interesting mixed team event is still being held in China- China Badminton Super League. The semifinal just finished. Xiamen 3-0 Zhejiang XD: Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong 3-0 Wu Mengying/Shen Huanyao WS: Wang Zhiyi 3-0 Chen Yufei WD: Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan 3-0 Yu Yishan/Yang Xiaoyu Jiangxi 3-2 Shenzhen XD: Li Junhui/Liu Xuanxuan 3-1 Liang Weikeng/Zhang Shuxian WS: He Bingjiao 3-1 Zhang Yiman WD: He Bingjiao/Liu Xuanxuan 1-3 Zhang Shuxian/Zheng Yu MS: Li Shifeng 1-3 Sun Feixiang MD: Li Junhui/Mohammad Ahsan 3-2 Liang Weikeng/Wang Chang Amazing performance by two veteran worlds champion Li/Ahsan defeating uprising star Liang/Wang, even though it’s just a commercial event.

With the ending of continental mixed team championships, all Sudirman Cup participants confirmed Asia: Europe: America: Oceania: Africa: World Ranking:

Ying Qing just won the first ever Bobsleigh world cup stage medal for China. One little step forward of Chinese sliding sports and benefit from the WOG 2022 host investment for sure.

Sun Jiaqi won the freestyle silver medal at the 2023 1st stage right after winning the gold last stage. Chinese girls ranked 2nd, 4th and 5th respectively. I will seriously consider it as a new medal point for rather than just winning the quota.

Water Polo on Asian Games Sep.23-Oct.8 2023 Hangzhou European Water Polo Championships Oct.7-Oct.21 2023 Tel Aviv

Big congrats to Wu Yibing. And he is very interesting guy who likes live streaming on social media and interact with fans. I likes him a lot.

When you want to initiate some internal issue like riots/protests/civil war from the outside, you can divide the citizens into pro-democracy/anti-democracy and help one side to fight the other and label the side you choose to help as good/justice/progress. But when the hot war already start, then there is no need to make such inefficient effort to distinguish the enemy and ingratiate yourself with them.

CHINA Air - Thousands of Miles Away 艾热 - 千里万里 The singer Air(艾热) is the champion of the variety show the Rap of China Season 2. This song is his comeback show for the new season. The cheerful and typical Uyghur tone made it hugely popular during FIFA world cup. Fans think it the de facto World Cup theme song in Xinjiang or even the whole China. Spotify link:

http://www.sznews.com/news/content/mb/2023-02/02/content_30057145.htm It's reported by a Shenzen local government-owned media and also published on local newspaper. It listed all major sport events that Shenzhen will hold this year. Apart from WTA Finals, events like Shenzhen marathon, Diamond League Shenzhen stage, Ice Hockey Women's WCH and Badminton BWF750 level tournament are also mentioned.

Shenzhen sports governing body said WTA Finals would be back in Shenzhen in 2023. But I didn't see WTA confirm it yet.

is in and I already made the choice. I will post it these two days.

Eileen Gu said she sprained her knees and she will be back in a couple of weeks.

Water Polo qualification document updated and confirmed continental qualifier date and location. Asian qualifier is Asian Games in Hangzhyou, China.

very tricky situation but no serious discussion yet in China. It will not only affect China, other Asian powerhouse like Japan and Korea will also be affected in terms of quotas. I guess it will not be easy to implement.

Happy Chinese New Year and Happy Year of the Rabbit.

Well prepared during off season

China published some data of 2022 today. The point is that population of 2022 is 1,411,750,000 and 850,000 less than that of 2021. So after Japan and Korea, China officially enter of era of negative population growth. The population of India either already surpassed China or will surpass in 2023.

No upsets. All five world no.1s won the tournament.

Naraoka vs Axelsen definitely the most attractive final tomorrow. Actually every match of Naraoka of this tournament is very worth watching and he is the super rising star of badminton.

17yo Shang Juncheng advanced to main draw and it's first time 3 Chinese men in the grand slam main draw

China gave up counting over one night as too many people infected at the same time. The number you see I think basically are the ones newly hospitalized and need confirmed to use the almost free health care. But majority just buy some medicine and stay home to recover themselves. Like most other countries, Chinese don’t care about the number anymore and just move on.

Very shocking to me. Zhao Xintong in my mind is a very gentle, polite, disciplined player. I could never link him to match fixing for gambling before. I think all 10 Chinese suspended players linked to Liang Wenbo who was the first one being suspended. He said he would let the thing going big on social media after being investigated. One of the suspended player said on social media that he was forced to fix the match under the pressure of Liang Wenbo only once as a young player.

Without fencing, It would be de facto a running event. With fencing, it's an event combining fencing and running. And it used to be an event combining fencing, running and luck.

Daniel Grassl is reported joining Tutberidze's group for training and sorta shocked figure skating fans.

Almost half population(700 million) got infected in December, 2022 this single month. As many of you already know, Omicron variant is highly contagious but with mild symptoms. Still the sudden surge created stress to hospitals and unavoidably some elderly with underlying disease passed away. However the peak has past now and people are ready to get life back to normal. I am already on my new year's vacation after Covid curbs lifted. The hype doesn't make too much sense right now, at least for Chinese.