Sports investment and financing cooling, scientific and technological innovation or new kinetic energy

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Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, February 8th (reporters Liu Yi and Zhang Yizhi) adjusted in depth and looked around. In the past year, sports investment and financing has more or less felt the chill in other fields except for e-sports projects. Many investors said in an interview with reporters recently that looking forward to 2019, under the circumstance that the industrial development trend is not optimistic, scientific and technological innovation may be a sharp weapon to break through the encirclement, or it will become a new dynamic energy to stimulate the growth of sports investment and financing.

Sports investment and financing enters “low active period”

Looking back on the sports investment and financing situation in the past three years, we can see that no matter the number of projects or the amount of investment and financing, it reached its peak in 2016 and fell back in 2017. If government investment and e-sports investment were abandoned in 2018, social investment continues to decline.

Dune Capital has rich investment practices in the fields of ice and snow sports, sporting goods and equipment, and its co-founder Chen Yongjin analyzed that sports investment and financing in 2018 mainly focused on venues and event operations, communication Community, mass fitness and other fields, but compared with the previous two years, the investment field has shown a trend of decentralization, indicating that many investment behaviors have the nature of trial, and the industry has not formed a unified understanding of investment outlets.

The data collected by multiple investment institutions show that the number of newly established projects and the number of projects obtaining financing in 2018 both decreased significantly compared with that in 2017. Most projects are in the initial angel round or round A stage, many acquisitions are strategic integration and do not produce good returns. A small number of sound head projects, such as sports brands or e-sports with certain market influence, have concentrated a large amount of funds, and the overall investment ability and willingness of investors have decreased a lot.

“Some projects with high attention in the industry and many financing have not been further financed in 2018. From the perspective of financing frequency, compared with artificial intelligence, chips and other consumption fields, the sports industry has suffered a cold reception, and few high-growth projects have achieved two financing within one year.” Chen Yongjin said, “many relatively active investment institutions have reduced the number of shots to sports projects and entered the stage of observation and adjustment.”

Chen Yongjin believes that both investors and entrepreneurs pay more attention to how to make the project generate cash flow quickly, as well as the future profit model and the construction of the capability of maintaining good profits, some projects that have been driven by financing have encountered problems before.

“2 Bor2C”, this is a problem

Binfu Capital, which has invested in projects such as “every step” and “love fitness”, has always been optimistic about the national fitness market. Liu ran, its partner, believes that competition and performance industry is more suitable for equity investment, while projects serving sports consumers can dig out a wide range of users and are more suitable for venture capital.

Is it for partners, customers, sponsors (namely “2B”), or consumers (namely “2C”)? Many investors adhere to the logic when choosing sports venture capital projects: create high-quality experiences and products for C- end, cultivate consumption habits and tap consumption potential, but at present, B- end pays for the time being, to ensure revenue growth.

Liu ran analyzed that it is difficult for a simple 2B or 2C project to have good performance in the sports field, which puts forward higher requirements for the compound ability of the project team, we should not only have strong ability to maintain public relations and customer relations, but also have strong ability to develop and promote products.

Ye Dan, the head of Asian capital Sports investment with investment layout in health care, basketball running and other fields, said that the new services supported by the agency’s investment technology are mainly aimed at the 2B field, such as intelligent scenarios, venue Solutions, etc., use big data technology operations to tap fan value and do accurate marketing. 2C marketing methods have been very delicate, 2B business revenue is relatively stable, accounting for more and more in the overall income structure of the company, and the internal technology research and development and service upgrading of the enterprise are mostly carried out around B- end customers.

Yifan Capital Group, which once invested in “lazy bear sports”, also has a layout in the fields of sports rehabilitation and combination of sports and medicine. Zhang Huan, its vice president, said, “the service target of sports rehabilitation program is not only sports enthusiasts themselves, but also providing services to relevant institutions and companies, for example, it can provide health management testing solutions for youth sports training institutions, and guide existing customers to fitness training institutions to achieve two-way cooperation.”

Scientific and technological innovation or drive new investment momentum

According to Chen Yongjin’s judgment, the future of sports science and technology innovation is a global investment hotspot, such as multi-dimensional data collection and feedback to users, chip technology, etc. At present, existing projects are using sensors, motion capture and other technologies to apply to training, venue construction and operation and other fields. In the field of sports equipment such as treadmills, golf clubs and sports helmets, more and more new materials are applied and the technological content is getting higher and higher.

Young groups with strong consumption ability and willingness are willing to accept products with a sense of technology and fashion, have consumption demand for sports data, and are willing to share data on social platforms. Cool gym decoration and trendy bicycles have appeared in many entrepreneurial projects. Equipment iteration makes this market have investment potential. With the development of science and technology, new consumption hotspots will emerge continuously.

Liu ran believes that although some insiders are not optimistic about sports investment in 2019, the investment in leading projects and head resources will show a further trend of concentration, and the industry hopes to find a good foundation, strong partners cooperate and develop. Football, basketball and other fields with wide audience have appeared some potential projects. In minority sports such as rock climbing and rugby, venture capital projects still have a lot of competition space.

“The application of new technologies will bring new business opportunities. The industrial integration of ‘Internet + Sports’ has entered the second half. The APP platform that relies on information matching to extract commissions has already encountered the ceiling, the dilemma of projects relying on traffic monetization is that the traffic cost is getting higher and higher, and the team directly providing sports and fitness services is still online, and this part of the return is difficult to pry.” Liu Ran said.

Investors believe that new opportunities are not only on the demand side of fitness groups, but also on the supply side of national fitness-related industries. For example, in marathon competition, face recognition technology can help improve recording efficiency; New medical equipment and means intervention can detect physical signs in real time to avoid accidents such as sudden death; data mining technology can wake up the sleeping data value and make use of it twice or three times to provide runners with rich and diversified experiences, improve the communication efficiency of events, and give back to sponsors more accurately.

Ding duo, investment director of Beijing Yuanxun Investment Fund Management Center, believes that the transformation of science and technology to the sports industry has come to a new upgrade gate, such as 5G technology in the future to realize commercial use, transmission bandwidth, the computing power is greatly improved. 4K, VR, and AR technologies will find more application scenarios, which will bring revolutionary changes to the live broadcast and venue operation of the event and greatly improve the experience of watching the event. These upstream technologies will soon take root in the sports industry and bear fruit.

The second national health qigong Baduanjin exchange competition Conference was held

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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 14 (Reporter Zhang Yi, Wang Yong) the second national health qigong Baduanjin exchange competition Conference was held in Beijing on the 14th, nearly 200 fitness Qigong enthusiasts from 30 teams from 22 provinces and cities across the country exchanged experiences and learned skills on the spot.

The competition level of this competition is relatively high. There are high-level players who have participated in the world competition, well-known players who have transformed into coaches, and senior coaches who have guided the champion team of fitness Qigong.

The conference held Fitness Qigong · Baduanjin collective competition and individual competition. The first, second and third prizes will be set in the collective competition, and 20%, 30% and 50% of the participating teams will be admitted respectively; The top 8 will be admitted in the individual competition. The conference also held lectures on the famous teachers of health qigong · Baduanjin, and invited Professor Yang Bailong of Beijing Sports University to elaborate on the principles and key points of health qigong · Baduanjin.

It is reported that since the State General Administration of Sports promoted the health qigong project in 2001, 641 health qigong stations have been built in Beijing, and the total number of people practicing health qigong has exceeded 100000, among which the health qigong · Baduanjin has the highest penetration rate. At present, this project has become the official competition of Beijing Games, Beijing municipal government Games and Beijing National Games.

It is reported that this competition was hosted by the Health Qigong Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports, Beijing Sports Bureau, Beijing Fangshan district people’s government, Beijing Social Sports Management Center, Beijing Fangshan District Sports Bureau and Beijing Health Qigong Association.

Ding Ning: 12 years later, the World Table Tennis Championships will start again.

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Xinhua News Agency, Budapest, April 23 (reporter Su Bin Zhang Zhang) defending the champion and ranking first in the world, any athlete who holds these titles will become the focus of an event. For Ding Ning, it has been 12 years since she first stood on the World Table Tennis Championships. She hopes that this World Table Tennis Championships will become a brand new beginning.

In the first round of women’s singles in the World Table Tennis Championships on the 23rd, Ding Ning defeated Hermi, an Egyptian player, in four straight rounds, and the way to start the defending journey was extremely easy.

In 2007, the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb was the first World Table Tennis Championships attended by Ding Ning. At that time, at the age of 16, she and Lei Zhenhua joined the mixed match, and the two stopped at the top 16.

In the past 12 years, Ding Ning has grown into the singles champion of the three World Table Tennis Championships, the “Grand Slam” winner and the national championship for many years, which is absolutely leading player. In Suzhou in 2015, people remembered that Ding Ning won the singles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships for the second time. In the final, the scene of her overcoming the influence of injuries on reaching the top podium was even more impressive to many people.

Ding Ning said frankly that at the beginning, he would feel a kind of pressure impacted by his opponent. “He was the last champion. (this impact) three successive championships is good, and he still feels quite stressful.”

But after arriving in Budapest, Ding Ning’s mind became more calm. “Recall that 12 years have passed, and it is a very difficult thing to be in the top ranks for such a long time.” She said, “when I really stand on the court, I hope this competition is a new beginning, not in what kind of identity I had before, but really enjoy my own competition process, every competition is precious.”

On February this year, Guozhen announced the new coaching team list, and Guo Yan became the supervisor coach of Ding Ning. Guo Yan once joined hands with Ding Ning in the World competition in the era of athletes. The relationship was upgraded from teammates to Masters. This world table tennis tournament was the first world competition that the two participated in.

“The current opponent is not very strong, and the cruelty of the competition has not been fully demonstrated. At present, I am still the main one, and the two of us will make more preparations according to the competition and opponents.” Ding Ning said.

Snooker China: Ding Junhui’s “sleepwalking” stops the first round

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Snooker China: Ding Junhui’s “sleepwalking” stops. The first round hopes that Chinese players will have better results.

China News Agency, Beijing, April 3 (reporter Wang Zumin) the battle for the 2019 World Snooker China Open was just on fire, but Ding Junhui, China’s “first brother”, had already regretted to stop. He was out in the first round of the competition on the evening of the 2nd, I hope other Chinese players can have better results.

Ding Junhui’s opponent in this battle is Watana, who is 49 years old and “old”. The Thai “Old King” is now ranked out of 110 in the world. In the delayed qualifying match of the Snooker World Open in last August, Ding Junhui defeated Watana to advance to the final match.

Now I meet my old opponent again, but Ding Junhui feels cold and has been in a downwind. Finally, he was told by the 3:6 explosion.

After the game, Ding Junhui defined his status as “sleepwalking”. He said: “Maybe I am too familiar with him (Watana) to feel. Today’s game should also be the best one he played in many matches with me.”

Although the China Open, which has high bonuses and is the last ranking of the world championships, has attracted many top masters, Ding Junhui is still the one who is most concerned and expected. In addition to his identity as a “local star”, it is also because snooker China Open plays an extremely important role in his career.

In 2005, he won the first ranking champion of his career in the competition held in Beijing for the first time, completed his 18-year-old adult ceremony and built a bridge to his career peak; in 2014, he once again reached the top, winning the fifth championship in the ranking competition of the current season and equalizing the number of champions in the single-season ranking competition set in Handry, and at the end of that year, he became the first Asian player ranked first in the snooker world.

Once again, Ding Junhui was full of confidence when he returned to the events that had brought him many honors. He said before the game that “I hope that I can break through history and achieve new success”. Although the number of his entries has decreased significantly since he was promoted to dad in last August, so that the season points are not enough, he thinks that this competition is also a good opportunity for him to adjust his status and get points.

April 1st is the lever day of this competition and Ding Junhui’s birthday. In the postponed qualifier, he faced Chinese teenager Zhang health and gave himself a generous gift with a 6:1 victory and a single shot of 139 points, it also further deepened the expectations of the fans for his “re-success. However, it was unexpected that the next game was so “changeable” that many fans could hardly digest the “roller coaster” experience.

“The elimination match is so cruel. If you don’t play well, you can only blame yourself for not doing what you should do on the court.” Ding Junhui was very upset.

Although it has been out, the wayward and emotional young boy had the style of a mature man. After praising his opponent, Ding Junhui also gave his blessing to Chinese players such as Liang Wenbo, Lv Haotian and Lu Ning who still want to continue the battle. He said: “Their competitive status and football skills are good, and I am very confident that Chinese players can achieve good results in this field!” (Finished)

2019 badminton Asian Championship: Lin Dan Xiaolong Tao Tian xiandou will all play

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Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, March 26 (reporter Li Jinfeng) the organizing committee of the 2019 badminton Asian Championship announced the list of the first batch of athletes. China, Japan, Indonesia and other badminton powers will do their best to go out. Chinese players Lin Dan, Ji Long, Shi Yuqi, and now the world’s No. 1 Japanese player taotian xiandou will participate in the men’s singles competition.

This badminton Asian Championship will be held in Wuhan Sports Center Stadium on April 23-28. According to the requirements of the competition, the top 10 players in Asia must participate in all five items including men’s singles, women’s singles, man pair, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.

In the men’s singles project, the Chinese team will send three players Lin Dan, Yan Long and Shi Yuqi to play, which is the same as the lineup of this year’s British Open. Japanese famous tautan fighting spirit is defending his title. Indonesian Jonatan, Chinese Taipei Zhou Tiancheng, South Korea Shon Wan-ho and other powerful players will make the champion belong to the point of view.

Chen Yufei, who won the women’s singles gold medal in the All-England Open, will confirm to represent the Chinese team with He Bingjiao and Han Yue to participate in the women’s singles event. On the court, they will face the hope from Japanese famous generals Ohara, Yamaguchi, Indian players Sindhu, Newal, Thai player indanong, as well as the Impact Challenges of opponents such as Korean player Cheng Chi Xuan.

China team Li Junhui/Liu Yuchen, He Jiting/Tan Qiang, Zhang Nan/Liu Cheng, Han Chengkai/Zhou Hao East four pairs will participate in the man pair competition, chen Chenchen/Jia Yifan, who won the championship in the All-England Open, will participate in the women’s double competition. Zheng thinking/Huang Yaqiong, Wang Xiaolu/Huang Dongping will participate in the mixed double competition.

Brother Chunmei will be traded to the Lakers

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Original title: “Brother Chunmei” will be traded to Lakers

Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, June 15 (reporter Huang Heng) according to sources on the 15th, NBA Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans reached a deal, the Lakers will win the long-cherished power forward Anthony Davis, who has been an all-star for six times.

It is reported that the Lakers will sign with three young talents Bauer, Ingram and Hart and three first-round draft picks, including the first-round 4th of this year, exchange “Brother Biao”. The deal will be completed as early as July 6.

The official Lakers fan organization “Lakers Nation” disclosed on its website that the main reason for the deal was the first round 4 signing that the Lakers just got. Since Davis announced in January this year that he would not renew the contract with pelicans and seek a deal to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Lakers and Pelicans started several rounds of negotiations, but the two sides failed to reach an agreement, because pelican also wanted to see the quotations of the Celtic and Knicks in the summer, but in the draft draw just ended, the two teams did not gain anything.

Seeing that Davis was obsessed with the Lakers, Pelican had to accept the quotation from the Lakers in order to prevent the leading star from having to be sent out for free next season. For the Lakers, it is not easy for them to leave another young star Kuzma in the negotiation.

The “Lakers Nation” article commented that although the Lakers lost three of the four promising newcomers selected for reconstruction in the past five years, the arrival of 26-year-old Davis, he can immediately form two giants with “emperor” LeBlanc James to help the Lakers “win the present” and guarantee the results in the next 6 to 7 seasons.

After Signing Davis, the Lakers still have at least 2300 million dollars in salary space, so they may attract another all-star player in the summer. In that case, the Lakers are not only expected to make a comeback next season, but also may redraw the western territory.