Thank you for that update. That is not good news. The isolation tactics imposed by the Chinese government completely backfired in that now the citizens have little to no immunity from the various strains of XYZ. Fingers crossed this situation improves for all.
I don't think we can draw that conclusion. The potential Cup of China GP wouldn't be for another 10 months, by which time the health situation (immunity caused by previous infection, reinforced vaccination drive, hospital overcrowding) is likely to be quite different than the current situation. IMO whether Cup of China happens will have more to do with the Chinese Fed's willingness and capacity to host (organizational resources, sponsors, etc.)
Well, the decision to host will need to be made much earlier than that. Sure, we can't predict what will happen in November, but then, the ISU won't want to wait till November. If the situation is still bad in May, I'd definitely say goodbye to CoC for the next season, and I imagine the ISU won't want to keep hedging its bets on China for much longer after that.
No, it wasn't last minute, by any stretch, but it was also very difficult to find another host fed when they were also replacing Russia's GP as well. That's why I suspect the ISU might have an earlier deadline for the Chinese fed, so they can, hopefully, give the rest of the feds that extra lead time they would need to put together a bid. I'm not sure we can expect Finland or Great Britain to step up again - though I do think Italy would be keen to host a regular GP next season.
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You'll have to explain how these points cohere.
I'd say it's the Chinese government's unwillingness to import the mRNA vaccines that completely backfired.
He had both his programs done, and posted a new year message on weibo.
; Li / Wang, Chen / Xing
Is China really this hard-pressed for men in Pairs and Ice Dance? Because it boggles the mind.
So maybe Sun's mom just wants her to have an easy route into a university in the future?
What really boggles the mind is how there's a shortage of men and then they somehow let really solid young pairs men like Xie Zhong and Guo Yunzhi retire at like 20/21 years old without ever making their senior international debut. And it all happened in the Beijing quad, when they would intuitively be ramping up their team more than ever before.
Well they shouldn't force them to keep skating, even though China probably can if it wants. So I have no problem with Xie and Guo retiring. Beijing quad was also COVID closed loop quad, I can hardly blame them to want to quit and do something else.
No, from her posts it definitely sounds like she's gunning for Sun to be a top pairs girl. She's referenced Shen Xue and Sui Wenjing as ladies to look up to. She's probably aiming for world champion or some international medals at least. Also some of the stuff she's said.... I don't think you have to be that crazy and train that intensely for direct entry into university.
Idk what actually happened, but I always got the vibe that Xie retired out of frustration, kinda the same with Xiaoyu. They really messed up a lot of the junior pair skaters in the Beijing quad by repeatedly playing musical chairs with the teams. It's kinda telling that Xie went back to skate with his old partner Gao in a tv drama last year. Yu/Jin was the most high profile split but I think Gao/Xie was also another unfortunate victim of the fed breaking up a team against their will. Like they thought Xie could do with better but after going through so many partners and none of them worked out in the end. I hate how they didn't give the young teams time to grow.
Well rather you seem to have translated his name as it would be read in Mandarin first haha.
