Liu Wei

Liu Wei may refer to:

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Liu Wei (basketball)

Liu Wei (Chinese: 刘炜; pinyin: Liú Wěi) is a Chinese basketball player who currently plays for Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association.

CBA career

Liu Wei played alongside his close friend Yao Ming for ten years on several youth teams and with the Shanghai Sharks before Yao went on to play in the National Basketball Association with the Houston Rockets. Prior to the 2004-05 season, the Sacramento Kings signed Liu to their preseason roster. Liu was released by Sacramento at the end of training camp after playing in three games and averaging two points per game and four rebounds per game. Liu then returned to China to play for the Shanghai Sharks, carving out a career as one of the best ever players in the Chinese Basketball Association. After seventeen seasons playing for Shanghai, Liu decided to sign with the Xinjiang Flying Tigers.

International career

Liu was a key member of the Chinese national basketball team that participated in the 2002 FIBA World Championship, the 2006 FIBA World Championship, and the 2010 FIBA World Championship. He was also selected to play on the Chinese national squads that competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In addition, Liu has also taken part in numerous FIBA Asia Championship competitions.

Liu Wei (table tennis)

Liu Wei (刘伟) (born 1969) is a former female table tennis player from China. From 1989 to 1996 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships, in the Table Tennis World Cup, and in the World Table Tennis Championships. She also achieved a silver Olympic medal in the double event at Atlanta 1996.

Hall of Fame

She is inducted in the ITTF hall of fame.

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Wei Chen

Wei Chen may refer to:

Wei Chen (singer)

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Wei Chen (Chinese: 魏晨; pinyin: Wèi Chén) (born February 22, 1986) is a Chinese pop singer and actor, who rose to fame through Super Boy a televised singing competition. He is best known through his album "Disparate" and his role as Ye Shuo on Meteor Shower.

Biography

Wei was born on February 22, 1986. He grew up in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. In high school, he started having vocal music and piano lessons and later attended the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. As a professional musician, he is also good at piano, guitar, hulusi, guxun.

Wei Chen participated in the 2007 season of Super Boy (快乐男声), a famous national televised singing competition in China, and placed third. In the competition, Wei's contagious performances and sunny image had won him much attention.

In 2007, after Super Boy (快乐男声), Wei participated in Just the Two of Us (名声大震) with Rujjana Utaiwan from Thailand, and the duo finished in second place.

Wei Chen (journalist)

Wei Chen is a Canadian television and radio journalist. She has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and its main rival CTV. In 2003, Chen surprised many by leaving CTV, where she was a national correspondent, to work for a new local station called Toronto 1 (now called SunTV), where she would host the station's morning news program.

The program, Toronto Today, was a failure; ratings were low. It was cancelled after only eight months on the air. The majority of the staff was laid off. Chen was reassigned as a reporter for the primetime magazine program Toronto Tonight, as well as host of The Source. Both shows were also cancelled. She joined the CBC and worked at TV stations in Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto.

In January 2007, Chen became the new host of CBC Radio One's Ontario Morning, the network's local morning show for Southern Ontario. She lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter.

Chen was also a university roommate of singer-songwriter Jann Arden.