World championship

A world championship is generally an international sports competition open to elite competitors from across the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport or contest.

The title is usually awarded through a combination of specific contests or, less commonly, ranking systems (e.g. the ICC Test Championship), or a combination of the two (e.g. World Triathlon Championships in Triathlon). This determines a 'world champion', who or which is commonly considered the best nation, team, individual (or other entity) in the world in a particular field, although the vagaries of sport ensure that the competitor recognised at the best in an event is not always the 'world champion' (see Underdog).

Certain sports do not have a world championship, instead they may organise a world cup competition, or they may organize both. Often, the use of the term cup or championship in this sense is just a choice of words. Some sports have multiple champions because of multiple organizations such as mixed martial arts, boxing and wrestling.

BWF World Championships

The BWF World Championships (formerly known as IBF World Championships, also known as the World Badminton Championships) is a badminton tournament sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The tournament offers the most ranking points, together with Summer Olympic Games. The winners will be crowned as the "World Champions" and awarded gold medals. However, it does not offer any prize money.

The tournament started in 1977 and was held once every three years until 1983. However, the IBF faced difficulty in hosting the first two events as the World Badminton Federation (which later merged with the IBF to form one badminton federation) hosted the same tournament a year after the IBF World Championships with the same goals. Started 1985, the tournament became bi-annual and played once every two years until 2005. Starting 2006, the tournament was changed to an annual event on the BWF calendar with the goal to give more chances for the players to be crowned as official "World Champions". However, the tournament will not be held once every four years to give way to the Summer Olympic Games.

Badminton

Badminton is a racket sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing side's half of the court. Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. Play ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor or if a fault has been called by the umpire, service judge, or (in their absence) the opposing side.

The shuttlecock is a feathered or (in informal matches) plastic projectile which flies differently from the balls used in many other sports. In particular, the feathers create much higher drag, causing the shuttlecock to decelerate more rapidly. Shuttlecocks also have a high top speed compared to the balls in other racquet sports.

Tiffany Tang

Tang Yan or Tiffany Tang (born December 6, 1983) is a Chinese actress. She graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 2006. In 2007 she was nominated for the White Magnolia Award (白玉兰奖) for Best Actress at the Shanghai International Film Festival for her film debut in Farewell for Love. She left her company Orange Sky Entertainment Group mid-2012 to set up her own studio.

Career

Tang acted in many television series in her early time, including Feng Man Lou, Zhen Guan Chang Ge, and Meili Cungu. In 2005, she acted in a drama Paint Still not Dry and played the major role of Susan. Known in mainland China as one of the four Fadan, the other being Yang Mi, Qi Wei, and Liu Shishi, she is considered to be a prominent rising actress of her time. In 2006, Tang received praise for her acting in her film debut Farewell for Love. In 2007, she performed as the lead female role in the music video Zhu Xian with Taiwanese actor-singer Richie Ren, and then soon came to the forefront, particularly in Hong Kong and Macau. Tang Yan quickly rose to fame in the popular wuxia-fantasy drama Chinese Paladin 3 in which she starred as Zi Xuan a decedent of the Nuwa Goddess that spent three lifetimes in love with Wallace Huo's character who was reincarnated as a priest for three lifetimes. The wuxia-fantasy drama of Tang Yan and Wallace Huo characters drew in much attention from the public and critics through the rich and heart-warming story line.

Luo Jin

Luo Jin (Chinese: 罗晋; pinyin: Luó Jìn; born November 30, 1981) is a Chinese film and television actor.

He graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2006.

Filmography

TV drama

Films

Stage Play

《Zun Yan》（尊严）
《Ying Xiong》（英雄）
《Ye Ban Ge Sheng》（夜半歌声）

Opera

《Si Jiu Lu Shang》（四九路上）
《Liuhai Kan Qiao》（刘海砍樵）
《Yang Jia Jiang》（杨家将）
《Suncheng Da Jiu》（孙成打酒）
《Hong Lou Meng》（红楼梦）

《Liang Shanbo Yu Zhu Yingtai》（梁山伯与祝英台）

Dance

《Da Mo Gu Xing》（大漠孤行）

《Mu Ma Ren》（牧马人）
《Huang He Song》（黄河颂）

Awards

The 2011 annual acting idol award in Anhui TV

References

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