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NANJING nike air vapormax flyknit uk , China, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- The future of Asian sports - over 2,400 athletes aged between 14 and 17 years - take the spotlight beginning Friday as the 2nd Asian Youth Games raised its curtain in Nanjing with an opening ceremony reminiscent of a video game.


Chinese vice premier Liu Yandong declared open the nine-day games themed 'Celebrating Youth, Passionate Asia', which will bring the athletes to 27 venues across the city by the Yangtse River to participate in 16 sports - diving, swimming, athletics nike air max 2018 uk , badminton, basketball, fencing, football, golf, handball, judo nike air max 97 womens uk , rugby union, shooting, squash, table tennis, taikwando, tennis and weightlifting.


On a hot, sultry night cheap air max 97 mens uk , the opening ceremony at a packed gymnasium broke the trend of holding Chinese sports events ceremonies in a main stadium, creating more of a theatrical atmosphere than a parade on an athletics field.


""This is not just a games for sports, but a games for spreading knowledge among young people,"" said Liu Yi'an, vice president and secretary general of the organizing committee, before the games.


In the artistic performance, 320 young people nike air max 97 mens uk , most of them high-school students from Nanjing, presented the audience with a story of children advancing to adulthood through the four seasons of the year, mirroring the art of vibrant videogames on a waved stage that represented the bridges of southern China; the Yangtse River waters and Nanjing cloud embroidery, a local handicraft.


The 40-minuite show, built with volunteers to a very frugal budget, was a mixture of a stage show and a party designed by teenagers with the help of directors, most of them under the age of 30.


The climax of the ceremony was the arrival of the Asian Youth Games torches at the stadium. The last six torchbearers approached the 2013 Asian Youth Games cauldron in pairs nike air max 97 og uk , one notable Chinese athlete alongside a Nanjing high schooler.


Liu Chang, the men's 73kg taekwondo champion at the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics, ran with 16-year-old Wu You, a 10th grader of Nanjing who designed the Nanjing Asian Youth Games torch.


London Olympic women's team epee fencing champion Xu Anqi paired with Qiu Liyong, aged 16, a runner-up at the 2011 national middle school student basketball championship.


And the 2008 Olympic men's individual sabre fencing champion Zhong Man paired with Heng Yu, the 2011 champion at the national volleyball championship for teenagers under the age of 18.


Xu and Qiu touched the torch to the ring in the gymnasium nike air max 97 undefeated uk , simultaneously lighting the cauldron outside.


Seven gold medals are up for grabs on the first day of action, including three in weightlifting and two in diving.

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NEW YORK, June 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks rebounded strongly Wednesday, with all the three major indices jumping over 1 percent, after media reports said that international creditors agreed to release more bailout cash to Greece.


Both the Dow and the Nasdaq soared about 1.3 percent, while the S&P 500 advanced 1.2 percent.




MELBOURNE， Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The authorities in the Australian state of Tasmania are urging seafood-lovers to avoid eating wild shellfish from the island state's east coast， due to the risk of potentially-fatal paralytic poisoning.


Dr Mark Veitch， Tasmania's acting director of public health， released a statement late on Sunday night warning Tasmanians and tourists to heed the "very real" threat to health， which has come due to an algal bloom in the water.


"Shellfish feed on the algae and (therefore) concentrate the toxin--this makes them dangerous to eat and may cause serious and even fatal illness，" the statement said.


"The large scale of this algal bloom and the high levels of toxin in tested shellfish mean the risk of shellfish poisoning from eating shellfish collected from the wild is very real."


Tasmanian seafood is considered by many as the best in the world， with many Australians choosing to make the trip to the southernmost state for sport fishing， mussel and abalone diving， as well as oyster sampling.


The authorities have said it is unsafe to eat wild oysters， mussels， scallops cams and pipis from anywhere along the island's east coast， while hungry Tasmanians have also been warned that cooking the fish will not kill the deadly toxins.


Two types of toxin have been identified by the authorities， one of which causes mild diarrhea while the other causes paralysis which could lead to death.


The latest algal bloom follows a similar one which occurred in 2015 when two people were hospitalized after consuming toxic mussels in October.


BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Liu Xiang nike air max 97 ultra uk , one of the best known athletes in China, got a divorce on Thursday after a nine-month marriage to actress Ge Tian.


Liu, who won the 110-meter hurdles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, told his fans through Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent to twitter, that incompatibility was the reason for the divorce.


"We ended the marriage today," Liu said. "We hope we can each have a better life from now on. We bless each other."


Liu married Ge last September after a four-month courtship following his retirement from athletics.


Many of Liu's fans were not optimistic of his marriage at that time nike air max 97 gold uk , saying that Ge just wanted to enhance her popularity by walking down the aisle with the Olympic champion.


Ge was known for acting as a woman who made use of a grenade concealed in her crotch to kill Japanese soldiers in an anti-Japan TV drama in May.


Liu never commented when Ge's drama was descried as vulgar and later pulled off the air. The couple had been rarely seen together in public.


Two hours after Liu's announcement, there were over 100,000 comments on his weibo account, mostly showing support for the former national hero. But jokes about Ge's TV play also surged.


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