Month: July 2021
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Beautiful #Tokyo2020
I love photos from the Olympics that exhibit the beauty of the host cities. Look at this beautiful Equestrian park in Tokyo! It is unmistakably Japanese. How about this picture of cyclists zooming through the legs of the RX-0 Unicorn Gundam?! And then, BMX bikes meandering through patches of pink flowers? (≧▽≦)
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Golds For Hong Kong & The Philippines #Tokyo2020
115 million+ people cried their lungs out last night, because of these two names: Cheung Ka Long🥇🤺Last time Hong Kong won a gold medal was before its return to China 25 years ago Hidilyn Diaz🥇🏋🏽♂️First ever gold medal for the Philippines Sports -> 😭
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Skateboarding @ #Tokyo2020
I love the story of Nike SB- skateboarding, and today, almost poetically, the world got to see the products Nike created for Olympic skateboarding athletes, an effort 24 years in the making. When Nike first produced its own skate shoes in 1997, the market was strongly in favour of brands such as DC and Vans.…
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China Bags 1st 🥇 (again, of course) #Tokyo2020
1st #tokyo2020 🥇goes to Yang Qing of China, winner of the women’s 10m air rifle event. Fun Fact: Yang Qing took the notorious competitive college entrance examination in China, scored high, and was admitted to Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management. She kicks ass everywhere. Photo: Yang Qing joined by Russian markswoman Anastasiia Galashina 🥈and Nina Christen…
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Do Our Parts For #Tokyo2020
The biggest lesson I learned from athletes while working for Nike-The Olympics create the most important chapters of their life stories. And I feel bad for them. The Tokyo Olympics is stillborn. The pile-on of all the negatives will tint the overall narrative of Tokyo 2020. The games will be coloured by COVID, low viewership,…
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I Am Now A Gig Worker
I was hired as a Bravely Pro last week. Bravely is an online coaching company. It hires contract coaches (Bravely Pro- my latest professional moniker) to provide on-demand coaching to employees of Bravely’s corporate clients. So yes, I am now in the gig economy. Instead of driving people around in cars or delivery food on…
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CCP @ 100
Anything that generates a lot of internal resistance is probably something we should pay the utmost attention to. Understanding Communist China is one of those tantalizing things. On one hand, the naive part of me wants China to be good. This is not because I am Chinese, it is because we all are stuck on…