Qingzhao International Poetry Festival beginsThe first Qingzhao International Poetry Art Festival will be held from June 20 to 27, 2024 in Mingshui Ancient City, Zhangqiu, Shandong Province. The art festival would use poetry as a medium and invite famous poets, artists, translator, and critics from home and abroad to present dozens of different types of activities, including poetry recitals, academic conferences, poetry markets, poetry theaters, poetry and folk songs concerts, art exhibition, poetry film screening, international poetry salon, youth art residence program, and so on. This art festival aimed to use the power of poetry to reshape the contemporary cultural landscape and explore how poetry could break through the personal device and intervene in the public world to negotiate with more people and things. This event would set off a wave of poetry in Mingshui Ancient City, and start a dialogue about the spirit and thoughts.
List of Olympic competitionsThe Olympic events were divided into three levels: Sport, discipline, and event. As of 2023, the data showed that there were 40 sports in the Olympic Games, including 32 sports in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and 8 sports in the 2026 Milan Cortana Winter Olympics. The specific events included water sports, archery, track and field, volleyball, basketball, boxing, breakdancing, canoeing, cycling, equestrian, archery, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, field lacrosse, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, football, sailing, shooting, skateboarding, sports rock climbing, surfing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, biathlon, snowmobile, curling, ice skating, snow climbing, and snowboarding.
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games had 28 major events, including track and field, rowing, baseball, softball, basketball, football, boxing, canoeing, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, weightlifting, handball, field basketball, judo, water sports, modern pentathlon, equestrian, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, shooting, archery, triathlon, sailing, windsurfing, and volleyball. Some of the events didn't have sub-categories. The most sub-categories in the Summer Olympics were swimming (including competitive swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo, diving, and open water swimming), and track and field had 47 events (24 for men and 23 for women). In the 2012 London Olympics, baseball and softball were removed from the Olympic Games. On February 12, 2013, the International Olympic Committee decided to remove wrestling from the existing 26 major events of the Olympic Games. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, golf was listed as an Olympic event.
The 2024 Paris Olympics retained the classic events such as track and field, swimming, basketball, and football, but added rock climbing, break-dance skateboarding, and surfing. The number of events included in some of the events were as follows: baseball included one event, weightlifting included fifteen events, sailing included eleven events, fencing included ten events, basketball included two events, softball included one event, equestrian included three events and six events, volleyball included two events and four events, canoeing included two events and sixteen events, ice skating included four events, field lacrosse included two events, and boxing included eleven events. Judo consisted of fourteen events, shooting consisted of fifteen events, archery consisted of four events, handball consisted of two events, wrestling consisted of two sub-events and eighteen events, taekwondo consisted of eight events, gymnastics consisted of three sub-events and eighteen events, track and field consisted of forty-seven events, triathlon consisted of two events, tennis consisted of four events, modern Pentathlon consisted of two events, swimming consisted of four sub-events and forty-six events, and volleyball consisted of five events. Cycling had three sub-categories and eighteen sub-categories; football had two sub-categories; rock climbing had three sub-categories; surfing had two sub-categories; skateboarding had two sub-categories and two sub-categories; and breakdancing had two sub-categories. While watching the Olympics, you can also read the wonderful novels related to the Olympics!
Table tennis competitionsThe recent table tennis events were the championships in Frankfurt, Germany, and the team competition of the Busan World Championship.
On the fifth day of the championships in Frankfurt, Germany (early morning of November 8th, Beijing time), the China team performed well and all the players won. Wang Yidi defeated Samara 3 - 0 and advanced to the top eight of the women's singles; He Zhuojia defeated Zheng Yijing 3 - 0 and advanced to the top eight of the men's singles; Lin Shidong defeated Du Da 3 - 0 and advanced to the top eight of the men's singles. In addition, Brazilian veteran Hugo (third seed) defeated Grasmenko 3 - 0. On the fourth day of the competition, which ended in the early morning of November 7, the national table tennis king Chuqin was eliminated 0 - 3 due to his poor state. Chen Xingtong reversed the situation of Szochos 3 - 1 and advanced to the top eight. Japan's Hirano Miyu was reversed by Harimoto Miwa 1 - 3 and failed to enter the top eight.
On the second day of the team competition of the Busan World Championship (February 17th, Beijing time), the six main players of the National Table Tennis Team won a total victory. The men's table tennis team won 3 - 0 against the cuban team, and the women's table tennis team won 3 - 0 against the uzbikstan team. In the women's table tennis, Wang Manyu defeated Magediva 3 - 0, with 11 - 0 in the third game; Chen Meng swept Guvranova 3 - 0; Chen Xingtong beat Hadijawa 3 - 0. In the men's table tennis, Wang Chuqin defeated Pereira 3 - 0, Liang Jingkun defeated Campos 12 - 10, 12 - 10, 11 - 3, and Ma Long defeated Peres 3 - 0. While watching the Olympics, you can also read the wonderful novels related to the Olympics!