@aishiterutokyo Love the new textured material Adidas is using on the player versions, wish they'd used it on Arsenal's kits this year....
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Brandon C.
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Brandon C.
@modernleifeng
sports fan & writer from Chicago based in Beijing // Editor at Wild East Football //
Beijing 北京 Katılım Kasım 2008
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@CameronWEF Did they successfully bottle the taste of years of corruption and failure?
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Really excited when I got my HJC cycling helmet from what I thought was a trusted TMall store at a price on par with what it would be overseas, everything seemed good, until I flipped over the box, @hjceurope I’m guessing a real box doesn’t have all these spelling mistakes?
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@ambrosejen @DreyerChina @IronCaniac @IIHFHockey Best bet would be overseas but haven’t seen anything online…Domestically Taobao doesn’t have them, my guess is that without the NHL players there’s no demand in north america which is what drives it so they haven’t bothered to fake them
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@DreyerChina @IronCaniac @IIHFHockey @modernleifeng I usually have to ask @modernleifeng. Lutch doesn’t even have Kunlun RedStar among their available KHL teams. If anyone knows, @modernleifeng knows
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Carl wants to buy Eileen's panda hat - I wonder who makes that (or her big red one from the other day)? Other Chinese freeski athletes, however, had to stick to the official team uniform.
Carl Zha@CarlZha
#EileenGu making history winning 3 medals, 2 gold 1 silver in #BEIJING2022 but all I want is the panda hat she's wearing.
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From Canada-Sweden tonight, the pregame dispalys at these Olympics are NHL worthy #beijing2022 #icehockey
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yeesh, these comments from Rudi Ying appear pretty cutting, but of all the players he’s certainly the most media trained, perhaps part of the issue was how tired the players were later in the game from completely overplaying the naturalized players due to no alternative
Mark Dreyer@DreyerChina
"We failed to calm down from the 2nd period, which led to the lopsided score. They worked much harder in the 2nd. We should have prepared more carefully." "Attitude is really important. Most of us are in the Olympics for the 1st time. We need the right attitude in the future."
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@andresuko @wildeastfootbal And they likely received awards (albeit far less generous) from their own hometown governments
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@wildeastfootbal This awards make the understanding of a teamsport so confusing … this is an individual sport ? Someone made her the pass … some one saved a goal … i still don’t understand 🙈
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Xiao Yuyi, the scorer of the winning goal in the Asian Cup, has been awareded 300k RMB by Chaonan District Government of her hometown Shantou.
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Aslo, what is with the English names “Bing Dwen Dwen” & Shuey Rhon Rhon”? With China’s pinyin push you’d think they would make them straight up pinyin, but this weird pronounciation method reminds me of some Wade-Giles bullshit making it even harder for foreigners to pronounce
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@aishiterutokyo Still have an unopened one that I’ve thought about selling, bought the kids a number of different items even the week before the Olympics & it was no issue
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Working less than 100 meters from the main Olympic store, I can’t understand why the sudden rush for “Bing Dwen Dwen” & Shuey Rhon Rhon” merch, store’s been open over a year, typically I was only one browsing, suddenly it seems people realized the Olympics are happening
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Another fun bit of video from these #Olympics2022 #IceHockey they played the immediately identifiable @NHLBlackhawks song “Here Come The Hawks” during US women’s games, maybe they’ll play it during China games too for Chelios #blackhawks
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Kanye couldn’t get Lauryn Hill’s vocal sample cleared for “All Falls Down” so Ye & John Monopoly flew down to Miami & went door to door looking for her. She eventually cleared her vocals, then denied. Syleena Johnson came in at the literal last minute & re-sang it saving the song
•UP•NORTH•TRIPS•@evboogie
Kanye West dropped The College Dropout eighteen years ago today.🐻
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@LeoHoenig Yeah, was thinking the main lesson is “head before heart”, his patriotism blinded him...
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@modernleifeng Early life lesson - the odds are never in your favour
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I almost feel like I should be cheering for China over the US, after all they’re the only team with a Chicagoan on it #Olympics2022 #IceHockey
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@IronCaniac @DreyerChina Partly it was lack of interest, partly it was late nights (most games start at 21:10), and partly it was fears that quarantine would be required after
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@modernleifeng @DreyerChina I would’ve flown halfway around the world and quarantined for 5 weeks if it only were possible for me to go to even one Chinese hockey game.
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I've been following the Chinese men's ice hockey story for the better part of a year. It's been a wild, wild ride. Tonight, in just about one hour's time, their Olympic adventure begins against - who else? - the US.
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@DreyerChina A friend runs a big hockey program in Beijing, they were offered tickets & sent out a message to all their players’ families (something like 500+ people), they received less than 20 responses from people interested in going
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Second period underway. Hard to see from the broadcast how many fans in attendance this evening. A reminder that it hasn't been very many at all so far: twitter.com/DreyerChina/st…
Mark Dreyer@DreyerChina
Listed attendances at the Olympic ice hockey games so far have ranged between 438 and 638. At Wukesong, that's about 5-7% full. At the National Indoor Stadium, it's even less. Not what was promised at all.
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Team China’s captain offered up a very un-Chinese motivational speech in the team huddle “Let’s shock the fucking world #Olympics2022 #IceHockey
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