Vic Liu

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.

Happy new year from 2023 2022 is a tough year for me and most Chinese friends facing lockdown/semi-lockdown/uncertainty of a potential lockdown. Finally it’s all over. Hope that 2023 is year of happiness and progress for all.

Best 10 athletes 2022 by Xinhua news agency ( fairly reflected ordinary Chinese sports fans‘ view ) Gu Ailing, Freestyle Skiing Lionel Messi, Football Irene Schouten, Speed Skating Eliud Kipchoge, Athletics Armand Duplantis, Athletics Karim Benzema, Football Rafael Nadal, Tennis Katie Ledecky, Swimming Iga Swiatek, Tennis Max Verstappen, Auto Racing

Best 10 Athletes 2022 by Xinhua news agency 1. Gu Ailing(W, 19, Freestyle Skiing) - 2 golds and 3 medals on Beijing WOG, phenomenal skiing icon 2. Gao Tingyu(M, 25, Speed Skating) - First Chinese male speed skating WOG champion and 500m WOG record holder 3. Su Yiming(M, 18, Snowboarding) - First Chinese snowboarding WOG champion 4. Xu Mengtao(W, 32, Freestyle Skiing) - 4-time WOG veteran and finally winning ariel gold at home 5. Wang Jianan(M, 26, Athletics) - First Asian long jumping worlds champion 6. Sui Wenjing(W, 27, Figure Skating)/Han Cong(M, 30, Figure Skating) - Second Chinese WOG figure skating champion after 12 years waiting 7. Yang Hongqiong(W, 33, Para Cross-Country Skiing) - 3 Paralympics golds and flag bearer of Paralympics closing ceremony 8. Zheng Qinwen(W, 20, Tennis) - WTA Newcomer of the year 9. Zhang Weili(W, 32, MMA) - UFC Women's Strawweight Champion 10. Chen Yuxi(W, 17, Diving)/Chen Hongchan(W, 15, Diving) - Diving worlds champion and popular diving athletes in China

Some follow-ups of the mass covid curbs protests. As some of you may already noticed, Chinese government decided lifting ALL Covid curbs nationwide at the same time. The result is everyone I know including me got/getting/will get infected on December. I am already recovered with mild symptoms. My parents are still under recovery and most of friends are infected and recovered. Beijing is finally back on track being alive with certainty and confidence.

Athletics is finally released.

What a fantastics game and big congrats to and Messi.

Can't believe it