The story of Ni Xialian, the 59-year-old member of Luxembourg’s national sports team and the     1     (old) Olympic table tennis player in the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships competition, has gone viral on Chinese social media.

Born in Shanghai in 1963, Ni Xialian     2     (successful) won several championships as part of China’s national table tennis team. She later moved to Germany and then     3     (settle) down in Luxembourg in 1991.

“I retired from China’s national team in 1986. Since table tennis was not listed as an event at the Olympic Games     4     1988, I missed the chance     5     (fight) for our country,” Ni said in an interview with Xinmin Evening.

Ni attended the Summer Olympics in Sydney     6     a representative of Luxembourg in 2000,     7     (kick) off her career as an Olympian at the age of 37. She then joined four more Olympic Games, including those in Beijing and London.

Ni said she believes she stands as a symbol on the field for Chinese everywhere. “I was born in China and received systematic training in Shanghai,     8     developed my solid skills and capability of reading games. It’s very important.” Ni told The Migu Sports News in the Shanghai dialect. “I just feel     9     (honor) to compete in the Olympics. Even though I don’t represent Team China anymore, I think that may be more meaningful because we need the     10     (communicate) between East and West.”

Team China’s B-girl Liu Qingyi pocketed silver in the 2022 WDSF World Breaking (霹雳舞) Championships on Oct, 22,     1     (make) a breakthrough to bring China its first world championship medal.

Liu,     2     goes by B-Girl 671, ranked fourth in the pre-selection and had an excellent     3     (perform) in the following match, progressing to the last four with three Japanese breaking dancers.

In the semifinal, Liu defeated Riko Tsuhako of Japan 2-0 by showing her powerful moves and     4     good sense of rhythm (韵律).

In the intense gold medal match, Liu     5     (defeat) by 2019 world champion Ami Yuasa of Japan 2:1 to settle for silver.

Setting the goal of being among the top eight before the event, Liu was     6     (satisfy) with the silver medal as she recovered her form from the semi-final.

“It is     7    (I) pleasure to compete with the champion.” Liu said, “I will continue to carve my moves, and I look forward     8     next year’s World Championships.”

“The team is very talented.” Chinese breaking team head coach Mounir Biba told Xinhua, “As we are approaching Paris 2024, we need to keep the takeaways in mind and go all out. I believe that we will do     9    (well) next year.”

Breaking will make its Olympic debut (首秀) since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially added     10     to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games in 2020.

Chinese teenager Quan Hongchan is the     1     (young) of 431 athletes that China sent to Tokyo for the Olympics. If the Games had gone on as     2     (schedule), she would have been too young to meet the minimum age (14) to compete in the diving competition. At such     3     young age, Quan was relatively unknown until winning the 2020 Chinese national championship at 13 years old. Now, she’s made Olympic history. Each of Quan’s dives was the highest of the five rounds of competition at the 10-meter platform. Two scored perfect 10s from all seven     4     (judge).

During a friendly soccer match     1     Australia and Argentina in Beijing Thursday, a Chinese fan ran onto the field to hug soccer legend Lionel Messi.

The fan was chased by security but managed to high-five Argentina goalkeeper Emi Martinez before     2     (catch). The crowd in the Workers’ Stadium cheered and shouted “niu bi”, which in Chinese     3     (mean) “awesome!” The fan did not lose his smile even as he was being carried away by security.

The video of the fan     4     (go) viral on Chinese social media had nearly 300 million     5     (view) with the hashtag (话题标签) “fan rushes to hug Messi on field” on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, as of Friday morning.

Most netizens expressed their admiration to the fan. Many others exclaimed he ran     6     (incredible) fast, and even some joked such quick legs were even quicker than     7     of most China’s professional soccer players’ and that the fan should join China’s national soccer team.

In an interview with Messi’s fan club on Twitter, the fan     8     (name) Di apologized for his behavior. “I hugged Messi this time, but I didn’t get a chance     9     (obtain) his autograph. Next time I want to go to Miami and ask Messi for     10     autograph. But I won’t rush to the pitch and repeat today’s mistake. It’s a wrong thing to do.” he said.

Stephen Curry,     1     father is Dell Curry, a famous basketball star, spent many childhood hours     2     (play) on the muddy basketball court. He learnt to be     3     (create) and flexible as a player and     4     (develop) his own playing style and shot     5     (accurate). Although Stephen was thought to be too short, too thin and too weak to follow     6     his father’s footsteps, he carried on and would not give up because playing basketball was his dream. As a result, Stephen ended up playing basketball at Davidson College.       7     (select) for the NBA in 2009, Stephen joined the Golden State Warriors. In 2015, he won his first NBA championship and led his team to their first championship since 1975. All his     8     (achievement) were made through his self­belief, perseverance and continuous efforts.     9     we learn from him is that anything is possible if you believe in     10     (you) and work hard.

As an athlete, Mike had been practicing hard. He preferred     1     (play) basketball rather than stay indoors in his free time. His favorite player was Jordan, who was a famous champion. Mike had a strong desire     2    (play) for his team. However, he was the shortest player in the team, so he was usually on the bench, being just a replacement,     3     was really tough on him.

Once two players crashed     4     each other during a game and one of them was badly hurt. The team quickly gathered around and the doctor put on ice pack on his knee. In that case the coach had to let Mike play, so Mike rushed onto the court. All the extra hours that he’d spent practising alone     5    (pay) off. The other team just couldn’t keep up with his energy and speed and the audience couldn’t stop clapping and     6    (cheer). At last, Mike earned his place on the team!

Mike likes many kinds of sports, such as jogging, cycling and boxing. He is in good shape, for he always keeps a     7     (balance) diet. He drinks a large amount of water every day. He also     8     (offer) some tips on sports on his blog. For example, long-distance running has a lot of benefits. It can strengthen your immune system and relieve you of some ache. It also helps you see     9     you are capable of. If you are fed up with your life, do some running! You don’t need some special     10     (equip). Do some warm­up activities before running, which will prevent you from being injured. If you keep it up, you will be amazed at your strong body some day!