The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (北京2022年冬奥会和冬残奥会组织委员会) have started promoting the 150-day countdown to China's upcoming Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The committee's official Sina Weibo account released a one-minute-and-30-second-long animated short on Tuesday starring classic Chinese cartoon characters. Among them are the Monkey King Sun Wukong (孫悟空/孙悟空), Nezha (哪吒), Erlang Shen (二郎神), Snow Kid (雪孩子) and the Calabash Brothers (葫芦兄弟).
The video quickly began trending on Sina Weibo as it leaned hard on the nostalgia of many Chinese, both young and old.
It’s a real shame that Liverpool FC are not releasing their players for international matches played in so-called “red-list” countries this month.
It was claimed that Mohamed Salah would not be given permission to play for Egypt in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Angola and Gabon.
And Liverpool would also refuse to release Fabinho, Roberto Firmino and Alisson Becker for Brazil’s three upcoming World Cup qualifiers.
Both Egypt and Brazil are on the UK government’s red list, with “mandatory isolation for 10 days” for travelers returning from those countries.
Liverpool’s move is supported by the Premier League – and in fact, it applies to nearly 60 players from nineteen PL clubs who are supposed to travel to 26 red-list countries in the September international window.
Methinks, it is not only unfair to the affected players but it is also wrong because national duty should take precedence. It is, after all, a matter of national pride for them to represent their respective countries. It’s the World Cup qualifiers, for goodness' sake!
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