"The flowers are similar every year, but the people are different every year." Looking forward to the upcoming 2023, which games are worth looking forward to?
Soccer seems to be the eternal theme of the world's first sport. After the lively men's soccer World Cup in Qatar, Australia and New Zealand will host the women's soccer World Cup from July 20th to August 20th. The opening match will be held in Auckland on July 20 and the final in Sydney on Aug. 20, with all 64 matches to be played in nine cities across Australia and New Zealand.
Projections on the facade of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia on June 25, 2020 to celebrate Australia and New Zealand jointly hosting the 2023 Women's World Cup. AFP/European New
The 2023 Women's World Cup will be the first time the tournament has expanded to 32 teams. In the group stage, the Chinese team will be to England, Denmark and other teams, the pressure to qualify. However, the Chinese women's soccer team has always dared to play hardball, and in the Asian Cup in early 2022, the "Clanging Roses" once again proved the resilience of the Chinese women's soccer team.
Many of the women's international players have joined overseas clubs over the past year, leading to anticipation of their World Cup trips.
Chinese women's football international Li Mengwen (L) fights during the 2022-2023 season of France's Women's Ligue 1 on September 9, 2022 in France. Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing took the photo
In addition to the women's soccer team, there is also the men's soccer team.In 2023, the most important task for the Chinese men's soccer team is the Asian Cup. Having missed the World Cup in Qatar, the Asian Cup is one of the few training grounds for the Chinese men's soccer team. Only one foot in front of the other, one step at a time. 2023 Men's Asian Cup will be held in Qatar.
This summer we will also have the Men's Basketball World Cup. The Men's Basketball World Cup will start in August and is jointly organized by Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines. The Chinese men's basketball team has already locked up their tickets.
Not long ago, Aleksandar Djordjevic officially became the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team. The Serbian has already started visiting the players of the domestic league and has scheduled a trip to the Men's Basketball World Cup in China in advance.
File photo of Djordjevic, then head coach of Serbia, at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, Sept. 12, 2019 Xinhua News Agency's Zhu Zheng
As a player, head coach Đorđević has won numerous Olympic, World Cup and European Championship medals. As a coach, he has coached many top music departments with excellent results. This time, the Chinese men's basketball team under his command is something to look forward to!
This summer, the postponed Chengdu World University Summer Games will be reloaded from July 28th to August 8th.
This is the Chengdu Universiade Athletes' Village taken at Chengdu University on Dec. 8, 2021 (drone photo). Photo taken by Xinhua News Agency's Wang Xi
As a sporting event for university athletes from around the world, the World University Summer Games have been successfully held twice in mainland China, namely the 2001 Beijing Universiade and the 2011 Shenzhen Universiade.
Chengdu has a long and rich history and culture, and its food is spicy and delicious. During the Universiade, students and athletes from all over the world will not only be able to spill their youth in sports competitions, but will also be able to fully appreciate the cultural atmosphere of Chengdu.
In early fall September, the tide of the Qianjiang River rises. The Hangzhou Asian Games will be held from September 23rd to October 8th.
This city, known for its beauty for over a thousand years, is ready to welcome the most beautiful guests and friends from all over the world. The program of the Asian Games has changed somewhat, adding e-sports and breakdancing as official competitions, with e-sports belonging to the category of "Intellectual Sports" and breakdancing to the category of "Sports Dance". The changes in the program added more youthful vigor to the Asian Games.
This is the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium (right) and Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Tennis Center taken on March 30, 2022 (drone photo). Photo by Huang Zongzhi from Xinhua News Agency
In the final edition of the Asian Games in Jakarta, the Chinese Army continues to hold the Asian lead in the medal table without any doubt. In this home battle, the Chinese delegation will once again be in a frenzy for gold and silver.
In addition, 2023 will see the first National Student (Youth) Games (referred to as the Youth "Scholarly Youth Games"), to be held in Guangxi. The inaugural Scholastic Youth Games have initially set up 67 competition programs. Youth and students from all over the country will sweat it out in the arena. They will grow and gain friendship in the competition.
The ice season is on schedule for early 2023. The World University Winter Games will be held from January 12-22 in Lake Placid, USA. We are looking forward to the youthful style bringing a touch of bright red to this cold winter. In addition, individual world championships in figure skating, speed skating, short track speed skating and other ice and snow sports will be held in February and March, and Chinese ice and snow athletes will strive to bring more joy to the Chinese people.
This year, the World Championships, Intercontinental Championships and many other events will be staged as scheduled. These competitions are important occasions for masters from all walks of life to compete for tickets to the Paris Olympics, to rehearse their lineups and to get to know their opponents, such as swimming, track and field, table tennis, badminton, weightlifting and gymnastics. The pace of the Paris Olympics is getting closer and closer to us.
In other corners of the world, traditional events such as the Dakar Rally, the Snooker World Championship, the four Grand Slams of tennis and the Tour de France will continue to attract attention.
In 2023, several integrated Games will be held around the world.From June 17 to 25, the Special Olympics World Summer Games will be held in Berlin, Germany. The Special Olympics is a major integrated Games for people with intellectual disabilities and part of the Olympic family.From October 20 to November 5, the Pan American Games will be held in Santiago, Chile. The Pan American Games were founded in 1951 and are held every four years. In addition, the European Games will be held in Poland, and Ghana will host the All-African Games this year.
