Four Continents

The Four Continents Figure skating championships took place in Taipei this past weekend. Taiwanese American Crystal Kiang took 20th. Here is her short program at around 8:25

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NTW1Gcahnk

No falls but unfortunately two of her jumps were landed double footed. Clean double axle at the end and an interesting spinning position at around 11:51 highlighted the second of half of the short program.

Jui-Shu Chen, Jordan Ju, and Chih-I Tsao represented the Taiwanese men. The placed 25th, 22nd, and 18th respectively.

10 things I want to see in 2013

Some are more realistic than others

1.       Tennis player Hsieh Su-Wei to maintain her ranking in the top 30

2.       Fourth of the medals table at East Asian Games

3.       Figure skater qualify past the first round at the World Championships

4.       Luger Lien Te-An successfully qualify for the 2014 Olympics

5.       Jeremy Lin leads Rockets to the playoffs

6.       Golfer Yani Tseng to hold on to her number 1 ranking

7.       Advance out of pool play at the World Baseball Classic

8.       Top 6 finish for both national basketball teams at the FIBA Asia Championships

9.       Footballer Victor Chou to recover from his foot surgery

10.   Jimmy Wang to break back into top 100 of the ATP rankings

What would you like to see of Taiwanese athletes this year?