LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Keith Mitchell fired an eagle and seven birdies Friday (Oct 15) in an eight-under par 64 to take an early five-shot lead in the second round of the CJ Cup. The American, searching for a second US PGA Tour title to go with the Honda Classic trophy he lifted in 2019, followed up a first-round 62 with another strong effort at the Summit Club in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosting the tournament moved from South Korea because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mitchell hit 16 of 18 greens in regulation in a round featuring a 60-foot eagle putt at the par-five third. With afternoon starters still on the course he had a five-shot lead over three-time major-winner Jordan Spieth, fellow American Harry Higgs and South Korean Kim Seong-hyeon. Spieth had an eagle and eight birdies along with three bogeys in his seven-under 65. Higgs carded a 67 and Kim nabbed seven birdies and an eagle at the par-five 18th in a nine-under par 63. The South Korean, winner of the Japan PGA Championship in July, is in search of a first US PGA Tour title. Mitchell said he'd felt the pressure of trying to add a second title to his resume - something he almost did at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in May. He held a two-shot lead going into the final round but finished tied for third behind winner Rory McIlroy - who said his closeup view of Mitchell's game convinced him the American was the real deal. While Mitchell appreciated that view, he said he'd been working hard to gain the consistency that would make him a contender week-in and week-out. Last season he made 16 cuts, with three top-five finishes, and missed 12. "It's like a roller coaster, and my game is like that," he said. "This year, I kind of took a hard look at my game. I felt like I've either had the game, the potential I should say, to play a lot better than I have on a consistent basis. "I just wanted to take this year and just try to be as consistent as possible, because I felt like feast or famine was kind of my game the last four years and I wanted to be a little bit more consistent, a little bit more patient - play like a Tour pro and not just like a young kid out there firing at flags." More on this topic Related Story Golf: Sizzling Streb seizes early lead at relocated CJ Cup
SINGAPORE - Singapore's many abbreviations and acronyms for healthcare procedures related to Covid-19 can be like "alphabet soup", said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Saturday (Oct 2), as he noted that some guidelines were designed at a time when Singapore was trying to stamp out every cluster, and will now need to be streamlined. The protocols can be complex and even frustrating to the man on the street, which is an issue that must be addressed, he said. The Straits Times looks at some of the more common abbreviations. ARI: Acute respiratory infection, with symptoms such as fever, cough, or runny nose. Those who go to a doctor with these symptoms will be asked to take a test for Covid-19. ART: Antigen rapid testing, a D-I-Y kit with results that can be ready in less than 20 minutes. CB: Circuit breaker from April 7 to June 1 last year, where only essential activities were allowed and people were encouraged to stay home as much as possible. CCF: Community care facilities, to house those who have tested positive for Covid-19 and are generally well but for various reasons need to be isolated from the rest of the family. CTF: Covid-19 treatment facilities, which have the medical capabilities and resources, including oxygen supplementation, to safely manage patients who may be at risk of developing severe illness. HA: Heightened Alert - Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) was in place from May 16 to June 13, with tighter measures like no dining in. HBL: Home-based learning, which students and pupils had to do when schools were closed and classes went online. HRA: Health Risk Alert, an SMS from the authorities that you have had possible exposure to a Covid-19 positive person. Persons who receive an HRA should test themselves using ARTs and monitor their own health closely. HRP: Home Recovery Programme, for those who are Covid-19 positive but have no or mild symptoms. Over half of Covid-19 patients are now at home. HRW: Health Risk Warning, an SMS to say you are a close contact of a confirmed Covid-19 case, or have been in close proximity with a confirmed case for an extended period of time. Such persons will need to have a PCR test within 48 hours and isolate themselves. ICU: Intensive care unit, where about 0.2 per cent of Covid-19 cases go when they become critically ill. MTF: Multi-ministry task force on Covid-19, set up early last year to coordinate measures across ministries and agencies. (From left) Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong, Singapore's director of medical services Kenneth Mak, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung and Manpower Minister Tan See Leng at a press conference by the multi-ministerial task force tackling Covid-19, on Oct 2, 2021. PHOTO: MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION PCR: Polymerase chain reaction tests, the gold standard for diagnosing Covid-19, with a turnaround time of 24 to 48 hours. PET: Pre-event testing, undergone by a participant or patron wishing to enter a venue where selected events, businesses, or activities are being held. PHPC: Public Health Preparedness Clinics are general practices that care for those with respiratory symptoms. They will provide subsidised treatment, investigation, and medications. QO: Quarantine Order, which will come by SMS from the Ministry of Health to anyone who has had close contact with a Covid-19 patient and thus may be a carrier of the virus. RRT: Rostered routine testing, which applies to workers in higher risk settings such as at the country's borders, the construction, marine and process sectors, as well those living in high density environments such as dorms. RSC: Regional screening centre, set up around Singapore to carry out Covid-19 swab tests for target groups in the general community. Singapore's many abbreviations and acronyms for healthcare procedures related to Covid-19 can be like "alphabet soup", said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung. THE STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS SASH: Swab and Send Home clinics, where GPs can perform swab tests for Covid-19. SHN: Stay-home notice requiring travellers to be isolated at dedicated facilities or a place of residence. SMM: Safe management measures, such as keeping 1m apart from each other to curb the spread of Covid-19. VTL: Vaccinated Travel Lane, which facilitates fully vaccinated persons to travel into Singapore under reduced border measures. WFH: Work from home, which people should do where possible to curb workplace transmission of Covid-19. More on this topic Related Story Covid-19 testing, isolation guidelines to be streamlined and simplified Related Story S'pore could see 5,000 daily Covid-19 cases by mid-Oct, but most will have no or mild symptoms
BUDAPEST (AFP) - Lewis Hamilton said on Thursday (July 29) he would be ready to repeat his attempt to pass Max Verstappen which caused the championship leader to crash out of the British Grand Prix earlier this month. Dutchman Verstappen was taken to hospital as seven-time champion Hamilton closed the gap to eight points in the standings before this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix. "In terms of the move, I'd do it again exactly as I've done it in the past," he said. "I think, growing up, wheel-to-wheel racing was always the best, from karting. The most exciting part of motor sport is when you see close racing. "We're now seeing two teams incredibly close on performance. And if there's more people watching then that tells you all you need to know," he added. Earlier, 23-year-old Verstappen said he remained unhappy with Hamilton despite clearing the air with the Briton during a phone call following their spectacular crash. The Red Bull driver declined to go into any detail, adding instead he was more upset by the defending champion's post-race celebrations. "One guy is in hospital, the other guy is waving the flag around like nothing has happened while you pushed the guy into the wall with 51Gs," he said. "And not only that, just the whole reaction of the team. That's not how you celebrate a win. Especially a win - how they got it. "That's what I found really disrespectful. In a way, it shows how they really are. It comes out after a pressure situation. I wouldn't want to be seen like that." 'Emotions run high' Mercedes' Hamilton defended his reaction after the win. "I don't believe our behaviour was disrespectful. It's one thing knowing and then celebrating what happened and there's one thing not knowing and celebrating. Obviously I wasn't aware," Hamilton said. "It was my home Grand Prix and we worked incredibly hard for who knows how long to get a result like that. "Emotions were running high. It wasn't an intentional celebration it was just the joy of seeing so many people and so many people celebrating, being together and that's the natural emotion. I'm not going to hide my emotions. It was an amazing feeling," he added. More on this topic Related Story Formula One: 'That's not how you celebrate a win,' says Verstappen as Hamilton row goes on Related Story Formula One: Verstappen determined to deny Hamilton a 100th win Verstappen distanced himself from claims made by his team boss Christian Horner who accused seven-time champion Hamilton of "dirty driving". "That's the first time I heard it like that. No, I think he just misjudged the moment in that corner." Hamilton, 36, received a 10-second penalty for his role in the collision and Verstappen said it was too lenient. "I don't think the penalty was correct because basically you take out your main rival and, especially with the speed we have in our cars, we are miles ahead of, let's say, the third-best team. "We are easily 40, 50 seconds ahead in normal conditions. So, a 10 second penalty doesn't do anything so definitely that penalty should have been more severe." The Dutchman holds a slender lead over Hamilton ahead of the 11th race of the season on Sunday, subject to a possible review of the Silverstone result that could be triggered by Red Bull's attempt to persuade a stewards' hearing, later on Thursday, that the penalty was insufficiently severe. More on this topic Related Story Formula One: Red Bull seek review of Hamilton's British GP penalty Related Story Formula One: Verstappen crash cost Red Bull US$1.8 million, says Horner
SANDWICH, ENGLAND (REUTERS) - Dustin Johnson has good memories of Royal St George's after finishing tied second at the 2011 British Open and the world number one is confident of going one better this year. The 37-year-old American won the Masters in November, his second major title, and believes he is playing well enough to make a strong challenge for the Claret Jug this week. "Obviously, it's the same golf course, but it was a little bit firmer in 2011," Johnson told reporters on Wednesday (July 14). "They've had a lot of rain, so it's playing a little bit softer. But it's starting to firm up a little bit, and I feel like the course in really good shape. The rough is definitely a little bit thicker than it was back then." Johnson finished three shots behind Northern Ireland's Darren Clarke at Sandwich in 2011. "That was a long time ago, but obviously I have good memories here, and I did play well," he said. "I do like this golf course. I feel like it's a tough golf course. It's going to play difficult, especially with the wind direction that it's supposed to blow for the week." Johnson described Royal St George's as a typical links course. "You've got to hit golf shots, and you've got to hit them where you're looking or you're going to have a tough time," he said. "For me, I feel like most of it's going to be driving. If I can drive it well, then I feel like I'm going to have a really good week." Johnson hit a rich vein of form last year, culminating in his Masters triumph at Augusta. "I played really well for about six, seven months. I feel like the game is starting to get back to where it was, just seeing a lot more consistency with the shots and the shapes," he said. "I think that's probably just a little bit of the difference." Johnson accepts, however, that luck will play a big part in the tournament. "A bounce here or there can definitely be the difference between winning a major or not," he said. "Around links golf courses or at the Open Championship that can definitely come into play a little bit more, but everybody is playing the same golf course, and it's all the same humps and bumps for everybody." More on this topic Related Story Golf: British Open players face disqualification for coronavirus bubble breaches Related Story Golf: Koepka-DeChambeau beef rumbles on ahead of British Open
LA JOLLA, UNITED STATES (AFP) - Jordan Spieth battles a right heel injury as he prepares for a punishing US Open layout at Torrey Pines, where he began seeing major improvements in his game in January. The three-time major winner has had eight top-10 US PGA tour finishes since missing the cut in a tour event at the oceanside layout five months ago, and snapped a four-year win drought by taking the Texas Open in April. "Overall, everything has been quite a bit better," Spieth said on Tuesday (June 15). "I've just been sticking to the game plan. "Just started to really get a good grasp on what things are supposed to feel like through impact, what I did that was such an advantage for a long time and where I'd gotten off." The 24th-ranked American, who tees off on Thursday afternoon alongside fellow Texans Scottie Scheffler and Will Zalatoris, hopes he will be over a heel setback suffered last week. "I was carrying my clubs and I jammed my heel leaving the course," Spieth said. "So it has been hurting, but it's nothing that I'm going to do more damage to or anything like that, so I'm fine." Spieth will feel it was he walks along the hilly 7,282-yard course. "I'm having a hard time pushing off on some of the drives," Spieth admitted. "But yesterday was better than the day before, which was better than the day before. So I assume just continue treatment and rest, and it should be fine." Spieth's fightback to form has seen him share third at the Masters in April and take second at Colonial last month. "Just kind of progress I've made in the tee to green range. Then putting and chipping has been pretty solid," Spieth said. "A little bit streaky, but I feel like I've been moving the right direction with the flatstick." The success after years of struggles for the 2015 US Open and Masters winner and 2017 British Open champion has made a remarkable change in attitude from last year's US Open at Winged Foot. "Winged Foot was, 'Oh boy, here we go,' and this week is I'm in a position where I think I can stand on the 10th tee on Thursday and win this golf tournament," Spieth said. "As much as you want to say that you can fake it till you make it, I needed that confidence between then and now to really think that standing on the tee." Tee off with patience While more confident off the tee, Spieth admitted he might need to reshape his game plan during the week to stay confident on a US Open layout with dense rough, firm fairways and lightning-fast greens. "In a US Open when you're really struggling off the tee, it's just not going to go well," he said. "If I'm in a bad lie, you just can't force things on a course like this. If you have to punch out and hit a wedge close to make par, then do it. "Being in a better place allows me to feel like I'm going to tee off with a little more patience. If I do make a couple bogeys, it's fine, because I feel like I'm going to make some birdies, versus, oh no, the wheels are coming off." More on this topic Related Story Golf: No Koepka-DeChambeau pairing in early rounds of US Open Related Story Golf: Rahm confident for US Open despite Covid-19 quarantine
SINGAPORE - Visitors to certain Housing Board blocks in Yio Chu Kang will be greeted by paintings of creatures like the Merlion and sports icons like footballer Lionel Messi. The colourful murals on the walls are part of efforts to help people with dementia draw connections between the artwork and a familiar area. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.
It's not one point, or two, or a game, or a set. No, to play Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal is to feel the squeeze of pressure all day. It's a suffocating intensity that won't dip, it's a relentless interrogation under bright lights to which you'd better have brilliant rejoinders. "They play every single point like it's a match point." Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.
There were times when national softballer Aloysius Ong questioned his decision to defer his studies for a year to focus on softball in 2019. Watching his peers graduate ahead of him while he spent his time preparing for the SEA Games that year was tough. It did not help that some also doubted his decision to take a year off for sport. But the pitcher's sacrifice bore fruit as he helped the national team secure a historic SEA Games gold medal. After the stellar year in sport, Mr Ong channelled his focus to his studies. Looking back, the Hwa Chong Institution student, who received his A-level results yesterday, scoring five As and a C, has no regrets. Aloysius, 19, who hopes to read medicine in university, said: "The perception that people have towards sport is like, 'Why did you do it? Sport isn't going to take you anywhere.' "At the back of people's heads, there will be some questions, like if softball is really worth a year of your life, but I'm glad I stuck to my decision and it paid off." National para-swimmer Wong Zhi Wei is another athlete who overcame a difficult time to do well at the A levels. In October 2019, he received news that he had been diagnosed with stage five chronic kidney disease. Before that, Zhi Wei, who has a visual impairment, had also been struggling with his performance in the pool, and the diagnosis was a double whammy. The 18-year-old said: "It was devastating because I couldn't pursue swimming. I felt it was a real tragedy because I couldn't do the things my friends could do, and I felt somewhat nihilistic, like: 'What's the point of taking A levels if my life is going to be like this?'" But that changed when he underwent a kidney transplant in January last year. He flew to China for the procedure, and even though it kept him out of school for three months, it was a turning point. As he could not return to the pool immediately after the transplant, he decided to treat his A levels like a competition. During his time away from school, the Eunoia Junior College student asked his teachers to send him worksheets and tried to catch up in areas of his studies in which he had fallen behind. This time, instead of a medal at the end of the competition, it was a result sheet with five As and a B. Zhi Wei, who is looking at pursuing a politics-or economics-related degree, said: "For me, there's a sense of relief and accomplishment because I was able to bounce back from the hardships I had to deal with in the previous two years." National sailor Lee Wonn Kye and national artistic swimmer Vivien Tai, both Raffles Institution students, are also among those who performed well at the A levels. Wonn Kye, 18, scored six As while Vivien, 19, scored five As and a B.
TOKYO • In the days since the president of the Tokyo Olympic organising committee ignited a fierce backlash by asserting that women talk too much in meetings, more than half of the Japanese public agreed in a poll that he was "not qualified" to lead. One of Japan's most prominent Olympic hopefuls, tennis star Naomi Osaka, said his comments were "really ignorant". Editorials in two of the country's largest newspapers also called for him to resign. Yet after making a brief apology, Yoshiro Mori, the Tokyo 2020 chair, remains the face of Japan's effort to pull off the most important event on the international sports calendar. His imperviousness to the firestorm over his sexist remarks last week appears to reflect the support of a Japanese power structure that is largely unaccountable to the public, works to preserve the old guard and freezes out the critical voices of younger people. On social media, this generational divide has coalesced around the Japanese word "rougai", a term that connotes irritation at the intransigent behaviour by the country's legions of older people, and that Mori himself used in discussing his remarks. The tenacity of the 83-year-old, a former prime minister, also shows how the country's long-running ruling party has little incentive to stand up for women's rights, managing to stay in power despite failing to meet its own targets for advancing women in politics and the workplace. "The people around Mori and he himself think that they can be like this because it's always been like that," said Kaori Hayashi, a professor of sociology and media studies at the University of Tokyo. "And if the storm calms down, then they can go back to business as usual. That's been the culture." Political leaders - almost all men - operate within a bubble, under the notion that "we are the ones who decide". "So that's why even if we are screaming, our voices can't reach these circles," she added. Since Mori's gaffe, prominent political backers have lined up to say that he should remain in charge. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called his remarks "against the national interest" but pointed to a statement from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) declaring the issue "closed". On Tuesday, the IOC issued a follow-up statement calling Mori's comments "absolutely inappropriate" but made no reference to calls for his resignation. OLD BOYS' CLUB The people around Mori and he himself think that they can be like this because it's always been like that... So that's why even if we are screaming, our voices can't reach these circles. KAORI HAYASHI, Tokyo University professor, on the lopsided Japanese social structure. Toshihiro Nikai, secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has also said it would "not be a problem" for Mori to stay in place. Even those who have been critical of his remarks have declined to call for his departure. Ms Seiko Hashimoto, the Cabinet minister overseeing the Olympics, and the Tokyo Governor, Ms Yuriko Koike - both among Japan's highest-ranking female politicians - have said Mori "should not have made" the remark. But they have signalled that they would continue to support the organising committee if he stayed on. Mori has several things in his favour despite his sexist remarks. He can lean on his broad network built up over a decades-long career and it could be difficult to replace him with the Olympics scheduled to start in just over five months and amid the coronavirus pandemic. With a reputation as a political fixer, he can also rely on those who feel they owe him loyalty for previous favours granted in Japan's insular political and business worlds. "A lot of people seem to depend on his support for political and professional survival," said Noriko Hama, an economics professor at Doshisha Business School. However, sponsors are upset at how plans to strengthen their own brands are instead suffering further damage. Public broadcaster NHK said 36 of 70 sponsors it contacted saw the comments as "unacceptable", while nearly two dozen firms had received complaints from clients. Although none have yet threatened to withdraw, Toyota, a worldwide Olympic sponsor, via its president Akio Toyoda has issued a strong rebuke, saying Mori's remarks were contrary to the values that the Japanese automaker respects and supports. Other sponsors, including Nippon Life Insurance Company, global brewery Asahi Holdings and energy company Eneos have equally criticised his line of thinking. Tokyo 2020 organisers will hold an executive board meeting tomorrow to discuss Mori's comments on top of gender equality initiatives. BLOOMBERG, NYTIMES
MELBOURNE • Roberto Bautista Agut has slammed the Victoria state government's quarantine requirements for tennis players ahead of next month's Australian Open, saying that being subject to a hotel lockdown was no different to being imprisoned. Passengers who arrived on three charter flights have been placed into hard quarantine, including 72 players who are unable to train outside their rooms for 14 days before the year's first Grand Slam starts on Feb 8. Agut is one of those stuck indoors. A number of top players, including world No. 1 Novak Djokovic, have questioned the necessity for mandatory hotel quarantine but Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said it is essential to stop the spread of Covid-19. World No. 13 Bautista Agut is also opposed to the two-week quarantine, telling Israeli television channel Sport 5: "It's like (being) in a jail. "It's the same but with Wi-Fi. These people have no idea about tennis and about practice courts and it's a complete disaster. "The control of everything isn't Tennis Australia, it's with the government (and health officials)." Agut, who reached the Australian Open quarter-finals in 2019, said the stifling conditions were taking a mental and physical toll on the players. "It's tough and we have to work a lot mentally and be patient," he added. However, Czech Barbora Strycova, a semi-finalist at Wimbledon in 2019, backed the strict health protocols and said she was getting on with it. "I'm exercising twice a day, reading some books, being on social (media) and watching TV," she told SEN Breakfast radio programme. "I can't really complain. I really have to go through it and try to be as positive as I can be." Former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka has also urged her peers to "accept and adapt" to the strict health regulations. The Belarusian, who is one of the many players under a hard lockdown, yesterday tweeted: "I understand all the frustration and feeling of unfairness that has been coming and it is overwhelming." The two-time Australian Open winner added: "I would like to ask all of us to respect people who work tirelessly to try and make our lives easier." REUTERS
After almost a year starved of competitions, Singapore Athletics (SA) is in no haste to add more events to its calendar for 2021, despite being buoyed by the smooth running of two meets during this Covid-19 pandemic. The national track and field body held Performance Trial events on Nov 27-29 and Dec 11-13 as a way for local athletes to return to competing, as well as attempt to hit qualification marks for major Games like the 2021 SEA Games in Vietnam. Please subscribe or log in to continue reading the full article. Get unlimited access to all stories at $0.99/month Latest headlines and exclusive stories In-depth analyses and award-winning multimedia content Get access to all with our no-contract promotional package at only $0.99/month for the first 3 months* Subscribe now *Terms and conditions apply.
BEIJING, Dec 24, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - On December 12th, 2020, Weilu won the prize of top ten tech brand during the Bsan Forum in Beijing, and begins a new trend of localized vlog in China.Competition about vlog among internet giants in China starts in 2019. With 10.8 billion internet users and previous success in short videos, China seems to be the next big market for the vlog. As shown by the public record, the top ten video companies have offered 10 billion traffic incentives to vloggers in China since 2018. According to the Baidu index, in April 2019, vlog reaches its highest index 17479, then decreases to 2525 in December 2020. This leaves the question: "Why Chinese people don't like vlogs like the rest of the world.""According to a survey conducted by Tencent's Penguin Intelligence, nearly 60% of the users surveyed have never heard of a vlog, and 70% of users claim to have never seen a vlog," says Duncan Du, founder of Weilu. "The main reason is that people speak mandarin in China, so to most local people vlog is a meaningless spelling of letters, impossible to remember or pronounce. "When we came up with the idea of creating a local brand for vlog, we tried to make it sound like vlog and mean like vlog, which took us 6 months to finish the task, amongst 200 alternatives. It's easy to relate Weilu to vlog in Chinese by meaning or pronunciation. The other meaning of Weilu is from the Chinese idiom weibuzulu, which means too small to record. Our team removed the middle part to get the word Weilu."So far, Weilu has been quoted on most search engines and online encyclopedias as the meaning for vlogs in China. "To my personal opinion, vlog hasn't entered into the Chinese market yet. It's not hard to understand if you don't assume everyone can speak English in China," says Duncan. PC or mobileAccording to a Chinese internet report, there are around 1 billion mobile devices in China and 300 million PC users in China. The penetration of short video is higher than 70%. Due to the nature of different types of videos, users tend to watch short videos on mobile while watching long videos on pc or pad. Watching long videos on mobile can be costly. However, internet giants are offering cheap data packs to users. With the 5G network upgrade, long video like vlog may boom in China on both mobile and pc platforms.Vlog or short videoOn Wikipedia, the vlog is described as a video blog or video log, sometimes shortened to vlog, and is a form of blog for which the medium is video, and is a form of web television. Vlog entries often combine embedded video with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts.Some companies in China attempt to make the concept of vlog the same as a short video, which is not a fact according to Wikipedia. However, there may be some sort of short vlog grown on Chinese internet soil. On Weilu's official website, the requirement for uploading Weilu is 140 seconds or more, and Chinese font is required.Local or internationalThere are two types of users for the vlog, the vloggers and the watchers. It is claimed by vlog tools that there will be 10 million vloggers in China by 2020. Vloggers have no problem understanding vlogs. To them, using vlogs is the word of fashion and international. However, on video websites, watchers are the majority. Weilu is trying to find a new path where vloggers can remain international while watchers can understand and most importantly can remember what they are watching.Media contact:Company: Chutong Tech (Shanghai) LimitedRoom 2601, South Tower, No.300 Xuanhua Road, ShanghaiWebsite: https://www.Weilu.comTelephone: +86 36360093E-mail: dev@Weilu.comContact Person: Duncan Du Copyright 2020 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. www.acnnewswire.com
MADRID (REUTERS) - Two headed goals from Karim Benzema helped Real Madrid reach the Champions League knockout stages with a convincing 2-0 home win on Wednesday (Dec 9) over Borussia Moenchengladbach, who also progressed to the last 16. Benzema ghosted into the area unmarked to head home a floated cross from Lucas Vazquez in the ninth minute and rose again to score in the 32nd, this time powering a cross from Rodrygo through the hands of Swiss keeper Yann Sommer. The German side were out-classed by the Spaniards but sneaked through from the group as Inter Milan drew 0-0 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk in the other game in Group B. Zinedine Zidane's side finished top with 10 points while Gladbach came second with eight, pipping third-placed Shakhtar due to their better head-to-head record, while Inter came fourth with six. Real's shock defeat to Shakhtar last week threatened their record of qualifying from their group for the last 23 years and piled renewed pressure on Zidane, who has won the trophy three times as coach but has had a difficult season in La Liga and in Europe. But as so often in the competition that forms such a large part of their identity, Madrid stood tall when it mattered most. "This was a great game for us and the way we want to go," said Benzema. "We always try to play like this, we prepare well for every game but sometimes we lack a bit of luck when it comes to scoring. We put in an excellent performance today that will give us a lot of confidence. "We all come out stronger from this match, Zidane and the players. This is how we need to play, if we could play like this every game we'd be unstoppable." The visitors wasted a glorious chance to cancel out Benzema's opener when French winger Alassane Plea raced clear towards goal but bungled his attempted dink over Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, sending the ball wide. Gladbach had scored 16 goals in their previous five matches but were mostly blunt in attack and barely troubled Courtois, with Plea also missing the target in the second half. Madrid, meanwhile, were hungry for more goals and should have stretched their lead. Luka Modric had a strike ruled out for offside late in the first half while Benzema saw a third header saved by Sommer and then smashed a shot off the underside of the bar, while Vazquez later struck the post. Once the final whistle went, Gladbach's players huddled around a smartphone to watch the final minutes of Inter's game against Shakhtar, erupting with joy when that match also finished to send them through by the skin of their teeth. "We're over the moon. These are incredible emotions that can't be described," said Gladbach midfielder Christoph Kramer. "I watched the Inter game after I got subbed off, but watching it as a whole team was a wonderful moment. Moments like that live long in the memory."
IMOLA • Lewis Hamilton may go on to win 10 world drivers' titles, but his status as the greatest could be undermined by a lack of true rivals, according to two of Britain's best-known former racers. Martin Brundle and Damon Hill both agreed the six-time Formula One champion is a deserved success story, with the former saying he felt privileged to witness his feats. Hamilton last Sunday claimed a record 92nd win, one clear of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher's 14-year record of 91 wins. Hill, the 1996 world champion, believes Hamilton needs to be challenged by and beat another driver of the same calibre if he is to silence the doubters. "There's a risk that Lewis' achievements will be measured against the intensity of his competition," said Hill, who had to beat Schumacher to win his title. "Mercedes have totally dominated this era and Lewis is not challenged." Brundle said he would not be surprised if Hamilton won 10 championships. "I'm not sure we ever thought anybody would approach, let alone surpass, Michael Schumacher's tally of 91 victories," the commentator told Sky Sports before adding "and I think there's a long way to go yet". He added that Hamilton, like Schumacher, says he is not interested in statistics, but did this only to deflect pressure. "I could see Lewis aiming at something like 10 frankly and a long way north of 100 victories." Hamilton will be seeking to help Mercedes seal an unprecedented seventh consecutive constructors' title at this weekend's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix amid much speculation about his future. He is out of contract this year and F1 is heading towards a likely salary cap for drivers in 2023. Reports have suggested he wants to improve on his current deal, said to be worth around €40 million (S$64 million) a season while Mercedes want to cut costs. Team boss Toto Wolff is also out of contract this year, but like Hamilton, has said he wants to stay with the team - and would much prefer to secure the champion on a multi-year deal instead of a one-year extension. AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, REUTERS F1 EMILIA ROMAGNA GP Practice (4.55pm) & qualifying (8.30pm) - Singtel TV Ch114 & StarHub Ch208