US figure skaters set to get team gold medals at Paris Olympics after ruling in 2022 doping case
The U.S. figure skating team was formally confirmed as gold medalists from the 2022 Beijing Olympics by a sports court ruling Thursday, opening the way for the team to get its medals at the Paris Summer Games.
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It took the latest CAS ruling in the Valieva saga to guarantee the U.S. team its overdue gold medals, and for Japan to be in line for upgraded silvers.
Special medal ceremonies are planned by the IOC in the second week of the Paris Olympics to honor athletes whose results have been upgraded because of doping cases that were prosecuted and resolved in recent years.
Those celebrations will be in the Champions Park plaza looking across to the Eiffel Tower on the opposite bank of the Seine River.
“This (CAS) decision comes just in time to still be able to make the medal allocation for gold and silver possible” in Paris, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement.
A love that began with the most “Evil” encounter, To the Best Ending...!
S8 Final Chapter "Forever a Family"
October 2023~January 2024
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Thank you very much for your continued support of "Kissed by the Baddest Bidder'' The love affair with the bad guys that started in 2013 will finally come to an end.
[Final edition distribution schedule]
October: Ota Kisaki
November: Mamoru Kishi
December: Soryu Oh
January (2024): Eisuke Ichinomiya
The reason why this title has continued to be loved for 10 years is because of everyone's warm support. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the management.
To express our gratitude to everyone who has supported us so far, we are planning an event in which all characters will participate, so we will let you know as soon as the details are decided.
It started with the most “Bad” encounter.
I hope you will watch this fateful love story with a bad man until the end.
EN translation of Zhu Yilong’s response to the Zhihu question
“What type of Chinese values on life and death are presented in Lighting Up the Stars?”
Hello friends of Zhihu, I am actor Zhu Yilong and I played the role of Mo Sanmei, a funeral director, in the film Lighting Up the Stars. This is a rather special occupation that is often misunderstood by the public.
As we saw in the film, many people are prejudiced against this profession, including myself. Before making this film, I felt that death was a taboo subject that should be avoided.
Before shooting, I went to experience life in a funeral parlour and realised that the funeral industry wasn’t as cold as we thought it to be. Instead, it is a very heartwarming profession. In my opinion, a funeral director provide us with a farewell service. When they help the deceased to depart in a dignified manner, they also help to comfort the living.
In Lighting Up the Stars, San Ge gained a better understanding of his profession over time. At the start, he was full of contempt and disdain for this industry. Later in the film, he started to understand the real meaning of his job and respect the profession. He worked hand in hand with his pals in Up Sky and brought comfort to others.
In my opinion, the film does not only teach us how to deal with death, but also how to live well. The notion of “people planting stars” might be a dream created by Sange for Xiaowen, but everything that he did also remind us that the living should cherish the present, live well, and move on with life. If it is possible, I hope this dream can also warm everyone’s hearts.
There is a line in the film that goes: "There is nothing more important in life than death." The film is a microcosm of the reality of ordinary people's daily lives, the quotidian city scenes, and the joy and sorrow of life. I hope everyone will be comforted by this film. Your loved ones never departed. They have turned into stars and are watching over you.
Lastly, let us pay tribute to the people who plant stars.
The road (and I guess that is the only downside: it is a road all the way) to the top of Hinoyama starts with the welcoming entrance to Jôan-ji temple.
After some 800 m uphill, past a rather large resort hotel, a chance for a break appears: a viewpoint with a camera stand (which may have been the first time I noticed one! very handy for group shots, though I was alone of course), and an art garden called Medaka no Gakkô, or the school of rice fish. Not knowing that at the time (I looked it up for this piece!), I didn't notice the fish, but I did notice the art and the wisteria in full bloom.
Most of the climbing is done at this point, and it's only another 300 m to the entrance to the shrines at the top of Hinoyama. Shrines, plural, and of various sizes, as the modest Hakuryû Inari-jinja sits next to the grander Toba branch of Kotohira-gû.
On the right, at the bottom of the stairs of Kotohira-gû, one finds the donors' board, and an inviting path... to the views shown in the previous post.
Dancheong, seen inside the upper part of the Main Gate On the upper part of the Main Gate, an old dragon is painted by the master artist Mr. Masahiko Misaka. The surroundings are painted richly in full color by Most Ven. Lee Man Bong, a living national treasure of Korea, together with his head pupil Mr. Hong Chang Won, using Dancheong, the traditional painting technique inherited since ancient Korean Dynasty.