#2023 asian championships

[mo-salto]

Lee Yunseo (KOR) takes silver on bars at the 2023 Asian Championships

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potentially controversial take bc i know Aleah is the ncaa-piked-deltchev fav: when i see Rifda Irfanaluthfi beat her all i think is "good"

(i know it's only happened because of composition problems and falls on Aleah's end but idc... in fact, i hope it happens again)

something something perspectives of ncaa difficulty etc being used to undercut the effort and work of gymnasts (and gymnastics programs overall) from small federations something something

Rifda beating Aleah multiple times flies in the face of that nonsense and i'm glad

[rhythmicgymnasticsnews]

Asian Championships 2023 Full Results

Individual All-Around

Takhmina Ikromova 132.200

Elzhana Taniyeva 128.350

Wang Zilu 121.800

Yosmina Rakhimova 120.700

Aibota Yertaikyzy 118.700

Zhao Yating 118.500

Mirano Kita 112.400

Aino Yamada 112.300

Breanna Labadan 110.400

Mikayla Angeline Yang 105.750

Sohn Ji-in 104.800

Ng Joe Ee 103.850

Tzu-Wen Li 110.100

Undram Khashbat 99.750

Kim Joowon 93.350

Yi-Tong Lai 93.800

Piyada Peeramatukorn 93.500

Katelin Wie Qi Heng 89.250

Hoop Final

Takhmina Ikromova 34.350

Elzhana Taniyeva 32.500

Wang Zilu 32.500

Aibota Yertaikyzy 31.550

Mirano Kita 30.200

Yosmina Rakhimova 29.850

Zgao Yating 29.050

Aino Yamada 28.550

Ball Final

Takhmina Ikromova 34.550

Evelina Atalyants 34.050

Elzhana Taniyeva 32.700

Aibota Yertaikyzy 31.300

Wang Zilu 29.750

Mirano Kita 29.650

Ha Sulee 29.450

Breanna Labadan 28.750

Clubs final

Takhmina Ikromova 34.100

Yosmina Rakhimova 32.900

Elzhana Taniyeva 31.900

Zhao Yating 30.300

Milana Parfilova 28.750

Mirano Kita 27.350

Wang Zilu 27.200

Kim Joowon 26.150

Ribbon final

Zhao Yating 31.450

Elzhana Taniyeva 30.800

Yosmina Rakhimova 28.550

Wang Zilu 28.250

Aibota Yertaikyzy 28.100

Takhmina Ikromova 27.800

Mirano Kita 27.200

Aino Yamada 26.550

Groups All-Around

China

Uzbekistan

Japan

Kazakhstan

South Korea

Chinese Taipei

Thailand

India

Philippines

Mongolia

Kyrgyzstan

5 hoops final

China 35.900

Japan 32.200

Kazakhstan 30.950

Uzbekistan 29.950

South Korea 29.950

Thailand 24.350

Philippines 19.950

Chinese Taipei 19.950

3 ribbons + 2 balls final

China 33.800

Uzbekistan 31.050

Kazakhstan 29.650

Japan 28.500

Chinese Taipei 25.700

South Korea 22.900

Thailand 21.550

India 16.100

[hardtchill]

I swear you attract the craziest anons. It took me 4 seconds to google the tournament you mentioned and see that N-Korea is playing again.

Do you think N-Korea would go to the Olympics if they qualified?

honestly how hard is it to do that? no reason to accuse me of shouting nonsense when the truth is really just one google search away

My gut says North Korea won't compete if they qualify but i will say that they haven't actually withdrawn this time so that's something. In 2020 they didn't play a single game and withdrew from the tournament. This time they have played all their group games and qualified for the final round. I don't really know why you would play those games + the two header against Japan if you know you won't use the spot for Paris.

[carlocarrasco]

Muntinlupa City Mayor congratulates local athletes and aspiring engineers for excellence

Recently in the City of Muntinlupa, local athletes and aspiring engineers who excelled in competitions and examinations were congratulated by Mayor Ruffy Biazon, according to a Manila Bulletin news report. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the news report of the Manila Bulletin. Some parts in boldface… Athletes and aspiring engineers from the City of Muntinlupa…

[sarkaaribharti]

India vs Pakistan Asia Cup 2023 : के मुकाबले में KL Rahul या Ishan

Asia Cup में Team India, Pakistan के खिलाफ होने वाले अपने अगले अहम मुकाबले की तैयारी कर रही है। फिट होकर Team India के साथ जुड़ चुके KL Rahul ने भी गुरुवार को कोलंबो में पहली बार टीम के अन्य प्लेयर्स के साथ Practice Session में भाग लिया। बारिश हो जाने के कारण यह Practice Session Indoor ही रखा गया। KL Rahul इस Practice Session के दौरान सहज दिखे। उन्होंने बाएं हाथ के बोलर्स के खिलाफ बल्लेबाजी की।…

[volleytimes-com]

Japan Triumphs in 2023 Asian Volleyball Championship! (Silver to Iran and bronze to Qatar)

Japan secured the GOLD in the 2023 Asian Volleyball Championship, defeating hosts Iran 3-0! 🥇🇯🇵 Qatar dominated over China to take the BRONZE 🥉🇶🇦! 🥇🇯🇵🥈🇮🇷🥉🇶🇦🏐 #AsianVolleyballChampionship2023 #Japan #Iran #Qatar #Volleyball

The 2023 Asian Volleyball Championship ended with Japan asserting their dominance by defeating hosts Iran in a clear 3-0 victory. The triumph marks the winners’ 10th championship title, setting them further ahead of South Korea and the same Iran, each of which has won the trophy four times. In the decisive game, Japan earned the victory in straight sets, partially 25:20, 25:18, and 25:18. Yuji…

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Matildas star Steph Catley was at a training camp for club side Arsenal when a nutritionist blurted out the news: Sam Kerr had ruptured her ACL while at a Chelsea training camp in Morocco.

“I literally felt like someone had stabbed me in the stomach,” Catley said.

“My stomach fell. I just felt really emotional really quickly just because I felt really removed from it and I couldn’t go and see her and I couldn’t speak to her in that moment.”

Women’s soccer is booming. Before her injury, Kerr, the Matildas captain, and Catley, the vice captain, were part of an Australian side that captured the nation’s attention in the Women’s World Cup in 2023. The Arsenal defender then flew back to London where she played in front of record crowds in the Women’s Super League, including 59,042 at the Emirates Stadium against Kerr’s Chelsea in December.

But that boom is hiding a serious issue.

As a female athlete, Catley is no stranger to serious injuries among her peers. As well as Kerr’s injury, Holly McNamara was called up for the Matildas last year but did her ACL. At Arsenal alone, four stars suffered ACL injuries in the space of just six months: Lionesses captain Leah Williamson, WSL’s record goalscorer Vivianne Miedema, European Championship Golden Boot winner Beth Mead and Austrian international Laura Wienroither.

Catley says the foundations of women’s soccer are not developing fast enough to keep pace with the product.

“Obviously it’s what we absolutely love doing, but I think now that the game is at a point where the standard is so, so high and the games are so challenging and physically demanding [that] a lot of teams and a lot of clubs don’t have facilities and don’t have the right calibre of staff that can keep players healthy and strong,” she said.

“They don’t have the facilities to cater for the amount of demand and the pressures that are on the women’s game now.”

On the eve of Williamson’s return to the playing squad late last month, the 26-year-old defender said the current calendar and demands on female footballers were unsustainable.

“We’re not bred for this. We get to October and girls are saying ‘I’m tired’ because you’re carrying so much from the previous season,” Williamson told UK’s The Telegraph.

“We are driving ourselves into the ground, so some sort of solution needs to be found soon, in terms of the schedule, otherwise it’s not sustainable.”

ACL ruptures disproportionately affect female athletes at a rate 3-6 times greater than their male counterparts.

Research into ACL injury prevention and causation is ongoing and newer reports suggest an intersection of risk factors of intrinsic (anatomy, physiology, biomechanics and hormones) and extrinsic factors (training, conditioning, preparation, facilities and resources).

While Catley was hesitant to speak on the causation of ACL ruptures as she was not an injury expert, she said there was no room to properly switch off mentally or physically on the merry-go-round of the calendar year, putting a lot of strain on the resources available.

“I don’t know if A, B and C leads to this. But yeah, it does logically make sense that if there’s that much demand and not enough support and not enough foundations underneath that people break down mentally, physically, in every way possible,” said Catley.

“I think that’s human and that’s the way bodies work.”

Some English clubs can play as many as three games a week during the height of the season when the WSL, Champions League, FA Cup and League Cup calendars are running concurrently. The additional travel, plus the demands of national camps and tournaments, can further complicate schedules. Major tournaments occur in most WSL off-seasons, including a rotation of Olympics, World Cup and regional championships such as the Asian Cup, meaning most players will get one off-season free every four years.

When Matildas defender Ellie Carpenter ruptured her ACL just over a year out from the World Cup during Lyon’s Women’s Champions League final win over Barcelona, she referred to it months later as a “blessing in disguise”.

“I really needed this break. I was very fatigued, I’ve played a lot – a lot – of football in the last year and a half. I was just on the verge of [being] burnt out, really,” she told Forbes last March.

“The injury came, and, obviously, it was disappointing but at the same time, it was the perfect time for me to reset, get stronger, have a rest, have an off-season that I never really have had.”

In Kerr’s absence, Catley will captain the Matildas for the final Olympic qualifiers in Melbourne on February 24 and 28 against Uzbekistan and, if they progress, again at the Olympics in July. Catley did the same in Kerr’s absence for the first half of the World Cup.

Catley said as a kid, she never thought captaining a women’s team at the Olympics would even be possible. But now it is, it’s a “pinch me” moment.

“To be honest, even having that honour at the World Cup was extremely special and something that I’ll remember for the rest of my life, and cherish for the rest of my life, because it’s stuff that you dream of, really.”

But before she flies to Melbourne, for a 48-hour stop to play the first qualifier, she is deep in the thick of an Arsenal campaign for the title.

The club is looking almost back to full strength after regaining Mead, Miedema and Williamson this season, and sit third on the table, below Chelsea and Manchester City.

Catley said the title race was heating up. And while in the past seasons her side has struggled in those bigger games, this year they’ve done well against top opponents – but let others slip that they’d usually win. This is best summed up by their 4-1 win over Chelsea in December and then a 1-0 loss to Tottenham the following week. On Sunday, they lost to relegation-threatened West Ham.

“You’ve got some incredible teams that are also in form and if anyone drops points at any point, it’s like sharks,” said Catley.

“It’s just so, so close.”

[yuzurujenn]

[2024.08.05] AERA x Yuzuru Hanyu: 24.8.12-19 No. 37

person in focus

"After all, it's frustrating when I can't perform well."

A session with photographer Mika Ninagawa for the first time in a year. In a long interview exclusive to this magazine, he talks about the ideals he pursues.

Writer: Takaomi Matsubara

Professional skater Yuzuru Hanyu

Born December 7, 1994 in Sendai. 2009 Won the Junior Grand Prix Final at age 14. 2010 Became the youngest Japanese male to win the World Junior Championships. 2011 While practicing at a rink in Sendai, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred, and he had to live in an evacuation shelter. The rink where he was training was temporarily closed. 2012 First participated in the World Championships, coming in third. 2013 Graduated from Tohoku High School. Enrolled in a correspondence course at the Faculty of Human Sciences at Waseda University, studying human informatics and cognitive sciences. Won his first Grand Prix Final. Won four consecutive titles thereafter. 2014 First Asian gold medal in men's figure skating at the Sochi Olympics. First World Championship win. 2017 Second World Championship win. 2018 Second gold medal in men's figure skating at the Pyeongchang Olympics. 2020 Won his first Four Continents Championship, becoming the first man to win all major international junior and senior competitions. 2022 Participated in the Beijing Olympics. In July, announced his professional career. The ice show "Prologue" was held in Yokohama in November and in Hachinohe in December. 2023 In February, the ice show "GIFT" was held at Tokyo Dome. In March, the ice show "notte stellata" was held in Miyagi Prefecture. In March and April, he appeared in the ice show "Stars on Ice" (Osaka, Iwate, Yokohama). In May and June, he appeared in the ice show "Fantasy on Ice" (Makuhari, Miyagi, Niigata, Kobe). In November, the ice show "RE_PRAY" tour began at Saitama Super Arena. The following year, it was held at SAGA Arena in Saga in January, Pia Arena MM in Yokohama in February, and Sekisui Heim Super Arena in Miyagi in April. 2024 In March, the ice show "notte stellata" was held in Miyagi Prefecture. In May and June, he appeared in the ice show "Fantasy on Ice" (Makuhari, Aichi). On September 15th, he will be performing in the "Noto Peninsula Reconstruction Support Charity Performance Challenge" in Ishikawa Prefecture.

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It has been two years since he made a new start as a professional figure skater in the summer of 2022. In 2024, he led three successful ice shows: "RE_PRAY" (Saga, Yokohama, Miyagi performances), "notte stellata" and "Fantasy on Ice".

The shoot with Mika Ninagawa for the first time in a year began with a cheerful greeting from each other, "Thank you for your continued support this year," and "Thank you." When she said to him, "You're still as young as ever!", Hanyu replied with a smile, a little embarrassed, "I'm almost 30."

"Move freely."

With those words, he made expressions and gestures as he pleased.

Various scenes were set up in the vast studio. Hanyu, who changed costumes and was photographed in each scene, moved and made expressions freely, sometimes under instructions and sometimes as if he was imagining (creating) a story himself. The people watching repeatedly let out gasps of amazement as the images were displayed one after another on the computer monitor. It was nothing short of amazing how he instantly exuded various moods - from boyish with a hint of innocence to cool and seductive.

His creativity was not limited to the way he behaved as a subject. When the BGM was played during the shoot, his body naturally responded to the music, and he also requested songs himself when he saw the costumes. There was also a moment when he saw a prop that had been set up and asked, "Do you have one more of these?" This revealed his high level of creative awareness.

The shooting has completed.

"Thank you very much," he said, and there was something light-hearted and cheerful about it. After a year, what he showed in the studio was a more mature and expressive side to him.

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Exclusive interview with this magazine

[In pursuit of a distant ideal]

He is now in his third year as a professional figure skater. Reflecting on his days of taking on unprecedented challenges, he spoke about what he has gained from them and what the future holds.

Photo: Mika Ninagawa    Writer: Takaomi Matsubara

Yuzuru Hanyu, the journey continues

hair & make up: Noboru Tomizawa  styling: Masataka Hattori costume: NEEDLES    BED j.w. FORD    YUKI HASHIMOTO  prop styling: Ayumi Endo

Yuzuru Hanyu started out as a professional figure skater in 2022. In his first professional ice show, "Prologue," he performed the first solo ice show in history. He skated for nearly two hours, with a structure that richly conveyed his skating career. Following "Prologue," he then performed a solo show at the Tokyo Dome for the first time in history, "GIFT." The ice show filled the gigantic venue, which had never been seen before.  After "Prologue" and "GIFT," he held the performance "notte stellata" in March 2023, which was filled with thoughts and prayers for March 11. It has been a year since our interview last summer, following those three performances.

Changes in the "depth" of thinking

"When I was interviewed a year ago, it had just been a year since I turned professional. I had a desire to grow and learn more specialized things. In the year since then, I think that my technique, expression, and many other aspects have changed. Among them, I feel that I have had many more opportunities to think about expression. I have been thinking about expression even in my daily life. I think that the way I think about my show, the way I think about each program, the depth of those things has clearly changed." He talks about what triggered the change in the past year. "First of all, I had to spend more time thinking about writing a new ice story after GIFT and also about my own performance.” The new ice story was "RE_PRAY", under the title "ICE STORY 2nd".  It opened on November 4, 2023 at Saitama Super Arena. It was performed in Saitama for two days, on that day and the following day, and in the new year it was performed in Saga on January 12th and 14th, and in Yokohama on February 17th and 19th, for a total of six performances in three cities. After the premiere in Saitama on November 4th, Hanyu said the following. "First of all, I myself have learned from games, manga, novels, and various other sources, about what life is all about, how precious life is, and other similar things that everyone else roughly feels.

In games, the concept of life is really light in a sense, and you can repeat it, so you can use characters to do all sorts of things and push forward with curiosity. If you apply that to the real world, you might be a person who has the drive to grab hold of dreams, or conversely, from a different perspective, you might be a very terrifying person. But if you could do it all over again, I'm sure people would try it."

24 hours a day, always skating

In this story with a game motif, the question of "choice" is often depicted. We make choices in our lives, even if we are not aware of it. What if you choose a different option than the one you originally chose? Or would you choose the same option? This story asks the audience, which serves as an opportunity to reexamine their way of life. Of course, just like "Prologue" and "GIFT," the fact that this story was completed and received with overwhelming acclaim was due to the performance of Hanyu, who was the sole performer. And even after six performances, he did not try to stay in the same place. He continued to evolve. There were many evidences of this growth at the final performance of the Yokohama show, for example. The movements in the performance of "Chicken, Snake and Pig" where he moved forward as if resisting the shackles. The performance of "Megalovania", following a silent performance without music with only the sound of his edges resonating, was more integrated with the music than in previous performances. Not only in the production aspects, but also in the details of Hanyu's performance itself, there were traces of refinement here and there. After the Saga performance, Hanyu spent his days preparing more rigorously for the Yokohama performance.  "Of course, I trained and restricted my diet. Well, how should I say it, there are 24 hours in a day, but I spent the entire time on nothing else but skating. In other words, skating was always present, 24 hours a day.” "That's right. To put it simply, it felt like I was spending every day just working on 'RE_PRAY'." The reason he spent all his time facing skating was because he had regrets about the Saga performance. "After all, it's frustrating when I can't perform well." However, the standards of frustration have changed from when he was a competing athlete.

Still not enough

"Gradually, the focus is shifting from scores to an evaluation. If something technical that I had planned didn't go well, then my evaluation vector changes and my perspective shifts. I couldn't accomplish what I wanted to accomplish in Saga, so I was simply disappointed." After spending 24 hours focused on skating, the Yokohama performance came. After the final performance, he said, "I feel a sense of accomplishment like winning the Olympics." While he felt a sense of fulfillment, he wasn't completely satisfied. He also felt that his ability had not yet caught up with what he wanted to do. "So I feel like there are still things I need to study more. Of course, I think I'm evolving. I think I'm getting better. But I still feel like it's not enough. As I keep digging deeper and deeper, my ideals become higher, and the things I want to express are becoming more and more specific. The more my ideals become more concrete, the more I feel like I'm not catching up." He is aware that he still has areas where he needs to improve, especially in the finer details. This is something he realises now, which he didn't feel this way when he was competing in the sport. "It's impossible to realise this when you're a competitive athlete. After all, if you can jump, you win. To be honest, if you couldn’t jump, there was no point in talking about it, as the outcome of the competition was pretty much decided by how many types of quadruple jumps there are and where you put them in the program. For example, what memories do you have of this song, the background of this song, what is the story you want to express, how will the story and the song fit together, or what meaning is in the choreography, to be honest, there’s not much room to think about them. You have to complete all your technical elements in one go in the four minutes of a competition (free skate), so that's all you can focus on."

A world not in first place

Win the match. In a competition, that is set as a goal. "Since I had already achieved that, there was no way I could go any higher. If you think about it in the world of competition, I won first place, so even if I tried harder, I couldn't get any higher than first place. In other words, I just tried to see how long I could maintain that first place position.

But in the world I'm in right now, even if I think I'm in first place, it may not be. It’s a place where I can think, "I'm still at the bottom". When I look at the various works of art or technically excellent things from around the world, I feel that there are still many things I can't do, so I think that I still have a long way to go." When he moved from the world of competition, which was fixed in a sense, to a new world, it was no longer a confined space. However, whether one knows its vastness or not, whether one feels that there is an endlessly wide world out there, is up to the individual. So even though the world is infinite, some people only notice a limited space. Or, there are those who limit the space themselves.

Right now, Hanyu thinks, "I still have a long way to go." He feels like he's at the bottom. This is because he knows that the world is endlessly vast. The reason he feels this way is because he has the ambition to move forward without being content with the present. So instead of seeing the place he has arrived at as the end point, he knows that there is still space to go beyond that.

Ideals evolve

"I may have surpassed the ideal I had a year ago. But the sense of distance between me and my ideal is probably the same as it was a year ago. For example, if the distance between me and my ideal a year ago was 10 meters, it may be 10 meters, no, 11 meters now. That's how I feel. I'm living and experiencing life, I see information every day, and in the midst of that, my ideal evolves. My ideal gets further and further away. But at the same time, through what I have seen and experienced, I'm sure I’m also one step closer to my ideal." Then, after a short pause, he continued with a smile. "As long as I want to, I think I can continue for the rest of my life." The skater is still on his journey, striving towards the ideals he has built with his own will. 

Source: AERA issue 24.8.12-19 No.37, pg 9-15 Info: https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0D89L6LS2

[argentinagp]

Franco Colapinto racing career:

2018 F4 Spanish Championship - 9th

2019 F4 Spanish Championship - 1st

2020 Formula Renault Eurocup - 3rd

2020 Formula Renault Eurocup - 3rd

2021 Formula Regional European Championship - 6th

2021 Asian Le Mans Series - 3rd

2021 European Le Mans Series - 4th

2021 24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2 - 7th

2022 F3 - 9th

2023 F3 - 4th

2024 F2 (till now) - 5th

[fortuna-majoris]

People who don't understand the hype about Neeraj Chopra need to re-evaluate his performance

Like, the 22 year old commissioned army officer shows up to his first Olympics, in a discipline where his country hasn't medalled once and in a sport that no one from his Continent has placed first in. He shows up, works hard and qualifies for Finals and then he fucking wins. And he doesn't stop, he continues winning, he wins World Athletics Championship 2023 (got silver in the 2022), 2022 Asian Games (where he and his teammates were subjected to many unfair rules and his first throw (which could've broken the world record) wasn't even counted). All of this when he had just recovered from a surgery to his right elbow (2019). Now this man 26 of age, qualifies for the finals in Just 1 fucking throw with his second best of the season. He is also considered a Favourite to win, all of this when today, (7, August), 3 years ago, most of the people in his country didn't even know that Javelin was an Olympic sport.

The Golden Boy of India deserves all of the hype he is getting. His critics don't know about the hope and joy that his Gold to brought every Indians hearts in 2021.

[carlocarrasco]

Australia’s Mileham and Philippines’ Burgos win 2023 Asia Triathlon Duathlon Championship elite titles

This past weekend at the New Clark City Sports Complex in Pampanga, Samuel Mileham of Australia and Erika Burgos of the Philippines won the elite titles of the 2023 Asia Triathlon Duathlon Championship (also referred to as Asian Duathlon Championship), according to a sports news report published by the Philippine News Agency (PNA). To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from…

[xillionart]

Noa/Fem!Ego.

At Blue Lock's very beginning, Ego talked about the Japanese national character being the reason why Japan couldn't win a World Cup. But in fact... Japanese women's football team had already won the World Cup as early as 2011? 

I love, love drawing sex swap (for which I repent), but in any AU I must maintain the core of a character despite the changes to worldbuilding and/or their background story — despite this core is shaped exactly by their background story. What is Ego's core? A ghost obsessed with/possessed by the world's best striker. How can I preserve his/her obsession with sex swapping? Ironically enough, the best way I can think of to keep Ego’s core is to remove him/her position as “Noa’s rival, teammate, and brother-in-arm”.

More references undercut:

I based Jinka’s career on the following two players:

Saki Kumagai (熊谷紗希), the captain of the Japanese women's football team, a defensive midfielder who plays for Bayern Munich Women's Team and has just transferred to Roma this summer. She scored the winning penalty for Japan in the 2011 World Cup. She also has seven French league titles and five European Cups to her name.

Homare Sawa (澤穂希), the former captain of the Japanese team in 2011, a striker. She scored a last-minute equalizer in extra time in the final, ultimately leading Japan to win the game through a penalty shootout. She won the Golden Ball Award as the tournament's best player and the Golden Boot Award as the tournament's top scorer. Later that year, she was named the 2011 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year, the first Asian to win a major end-of-year individual award (regardless of gender). 

The appearance and name of the captain of Bastard Munich Women's Team is based on Karin Danner, the legendary manager who laid down the foundation of Bayern Munich Women’s Team.

The characters for Jinka (甚佳) means "Excellent". I don't know Japanese, but I’d like to retain the way characters is written for "Jin" (even it is regarded as masculine) and the rhyme of his name. I hope this name makes sense.

The flashback scene at the end is based on Bayern Munich men’s and women’s teams’ double championship party in 2023 (as both won the Bundesliga). I absolutely adore their khaki vests and white shirts. Stunning.

[volleytimes-com]

Japan and Iran Set for Grand Finale in the 22nd Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship

🏐| Semifinals showdowns at the 22nd Asian Senior Volleyball Championship have set the stage! 🔥🔥🔥 Japan 🇯🇵 and Iran 🇮🇷 will face each others in the grand finale. Who are you cheering for? #AsianVolleyballChampionship2023 #Final #volleytimes_com

On the stage of the 22nd Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship, the semifinal clashes have decided that Japan and Iran will compete in the grand finale. Meanwhile, Qatar and China will play for the bronze. Japan canceled Qatar’s hopes of reaching an unprecedented championship final, with an exciting 3-1 victory. The scores (22:25, 25:18, 25:14, 28:26) at Al Ghadir Hall 1 is the summary of…