Vic Liu

I would like to present the most famous "electronic music" of China, opening song of Journey to the West (1986 version). Journey to the West is the most famous Chinese mythical novel, its characters and songs are known to almost every Chinese. And its mythological characters like the Monkey King are always popularly cosplayed on Halloween in China.
 
 Xu Jingqing - Sound of Heavenly Palace
opening song of Journey to the West
 

I would like to present the most famous "electronic music" of China, opening song of Journey to the West (1986 version). Journey to the West is the most famous Chinese mythical novel, its characters and songs are known to almost every Chinese. And its mythological characters like the Monkey King are always popularly cosplayed on Halloween in China.
 
 Xu Jingqing - Sound of Heavenly Palace
opening song of Journey to the West
 

I would like to present the most famous "electronic music" of China, opening song of Journey to the West (1986 version). Journey to the West is the most famous Chinese mythical novel, its characters and songs are known to almost every Chinese. And its mythological characters like the Monkey King are always popularly cosplayed on Halloween in China.
 
 Xu Jingqing - Sound of Heavenly Palace
opening song of Journey to the West
 

I am also waiting for it because I don't know if China will get men's 3*3 quota by ranked top3 or France will get it by host quota. My own interpretation is that China will get it as France already qualify women's 3*3 through ranking, so host quota will be no longer valid. But you just never know until FIBA or IOC confirm the quota by paper. 

MC1  
MK1  
WC1  (to be confirmed)
WK1  (to be confirmed)
 
Actually Chinese women got both golds on canoeing and kayaking, but according to qualification document, one quota maximum per gender on continental qualifier. I actually don't know if China's can choose either WK1 or WC1 or automatically allocated WC1. But Chinese media widely reported  got WC1 though I can't verify it.

http://accasia.org/sites/default/files/XCO FINAL RESULT 29_34.pdf
 
China win golds and quotas on both men and women's elite events

http://accasia.org/sites/default/files/XCO FINAL RESULT 29_34.pdf
 
China win golds and quotas on both men and women's elite events

http://accasia.org/sites/default/files/XCO FINAL RESULT 29_34.pdf
 
China win golds and quotas on both men and women's elite events

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From China’s perspective,  Sri Lanka is one of many countries with financial services and infrastructure contracts with China. It’s not more special than others, what may be a bit of unique is that it was facing a default while others were not.

Is it the freedom of speech we are longing for?
 
BTW to be practical, China is busy struggling with its economic problems currently and it has no desire or motivation to be dragged into the middle east conflicts though most people feel sympathy for Palestinian civilians.

It will be a very attractive tournament for Chinese fans as ex OG champions  Lim and  Liu brothers will compete for  at the same time. Because of their naturalization and participation, this sport is at least 10 times popular than before in China.

Remember Huang Yu Lin, the roller skating guy from  who famously won Asian Games gold after taking over his opponent who celebrated prematurely? 
 
Yesterday he lost in National Games of Taiwan with the same method  

and bmx freestyle. not sure about bmx racing.

Here are some of the notes that I have regarding the Olympic event medal table:
 
318 out of the 329 events hosted in Paris 2024 is competed in Huangzhou.  The total gold medal count is 319 due to a two gold medals given in the men's 110 meters Hurdles as Kuwait and Japan both win gold for crossing the finish line at the same time.  South Korea's gold medals in Olympic events has been gradually decreasing since 2010.  Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have essentially swapped places in the medal table hierarchy. In past editions, it was Kazakhstan that usaully sits in the top 4, while Uzbekistan won an average of around 4-8 Olympic events in in previous Asian Games. Now, the tables have been turned as Uzbekistan have reap the benefits of their improvement in a number of sports, especially in Judo, Rowing, Cycling, Taekwondo, Fencing, etc, while maintaining supremacy in Boxing. Conversely, Kazakhstan have their worst ever performance at an Asian Games since their first participation in 1994.  Another country that is noted for improvement is Hong Kong. I believe that this is the most gold medals that they won in an Asian Games. Having Siobahn Haughey helps, but there are also other sports that they shown to be at an elite level, especially in Fencing, Sailing, Rugby and Rowing. Winning 4th place in men's football doesn't look bad for them as well. India's improvement has to be noted as well. India's pet sports such as Track and Field and Shooting carried them to their best performance in an Asian Games outside of their country. Even that, they could have done even better if their Boxing and Wrestling teams deliver at Huangzhou.  While Southeast Asian countries have shown improvement in Olympic sports, it must be said that their overall performance is still a bit underwheling considering that none of them won more than three Olympic events at Huangzhou, which does not bode well for any of these country's chances to do well in Paris.    While China is the undisputed number one country in Asia, I and I'm sure a number of people here don't believe that the gap between China and Japan is as big as the 144-44 gold medal count indicates. A full squad of A-tier athletes for Japan would have won a range of 70-80 events, while China's true ability should be around 120-135 gold medals in Olympic events.  With that being said, while Japan send B-tier athletes in a number of sports such as Track and Field, Judo, Gymnastics, Skateboarding, Volleyball and Tennis, their A-tier athletes did underachieve in Swimming, Shooting, Table Tennis, Canoeing and Rowing.  I will likely write up a blurb for the 2024 prospects of some of the countries that competed in Huangzhou in a couple of days. 

While we are waiting for the pdf for the full results for each sport. I compiled the Asian Games medal table for the 2024 Olympic events that were contended for this competition. Here is the full medal table: 
2022 Asian Games Medal Table for 2024 Olympic Events
1.       China
144
88
57
289
2.       Japan
44
60
55
159
3.       South    Korea
23
40
51
114
4.       Uzbekistan
15
13
23
51
5.       India
12
26
30
68
6.       Bahrain
12
2
5
19
7.      Chinese Taipei
9
6
12
27
8.       Iran
8
11
13
32
9.       Hong Kong
7
10
19
36
10.   North Korea
6
10
8
24
11.   Qatar
5
5
2
12
12.   Kazakhstan
4
12
38
54
13.   Saudi Arabia
4
2
1
7
14.   Kyrgyzstan
4
1
5
10
15.   Mongolia
3
4
10
17
16.   Singapore
3
3
2
8
17.   Indonesia
3
1
9
13
18.   Thailand
2
10
16
28
19.   Kuwait
2
2
2
6
20.   Malaysia
2
1
13
16
21.   Philippines
2
1
3
6
22.   Tajikistan
2
1
2
5
23.   UAE
1
2
6
9
24.   Vietnam
1
1
7
9
25.   Sri Lanka
1
1
2
4
26.   Jordan
0
3
0
3
27.   Oman
0
1
1
2
28.  Turkmenistan
0
0
3
3
29.   Iraq
0
0
2
2
30.   Afghanistan
0
0
1
1
30.   Lebanon
0
0
1
1
30     Pakistan
0
0
1
1
30     Syria
0
0
1
1
Total
319
317
401
1,037

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The bigger question is why the semifinals and finals take place on the same day 
 
Eight boulders and two lead climbs is a significant task for athletes. 
 
These Games had great venues, smooth organization, and great attendance. However, the promotion and scheduling/tournament formats leave a lot to be desired. We had redundant rounds, too few matches in some team sports, weird draws in others, etc.
 
The OCA doesn’t have a lot of pressure to change though, so not sure if those issues will be resolved anytime soon. 

Breaking Olympic quota places were allocated today 
 
1 OQP for each gender 
 
B-Boy Quota: Shigeyuki Nakarai 
 
B-Girl Quota:  Qinqyi Liu 

And each of them will be awarded an apartment.

Yes! The loooooonnnnnggggg wait is over! More than 60 years in the making hahaha! I can have a good night sleep! 😅😅😅
 
Congratulations also to Jordan! Their first medal in Asian Games Basketball

women's weightlifting lost all direct battles against  and winning 0 golds yet. (at most 1 gold thanks to  's absence in 87kg)

Reza Alipour was the defending Champion but since that day in 2018 he never won a race and lots of guys (specially from China and Indonesia) surpassed his World Record. I would gave him a very slim chance for bronze but he won the gold. it seems when you train hard, luck also comes your way  it was the best moment of the Games for me so far (hard to pick between this and Table Tennis win over Japan)

The North Korean 49kg weightlifter just appear out of nowhere, take the gold and break the WR. I think other categories may also repeat this fantasy. Not sure how IWF and IOC will handle their Olympics qualification. From my point of view, they are not constantly attending requiring tournaments and not being timely monitored doping status. So according to the qualification document, they should not be granted quotas.