A: The 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics just opened in Italy last weekend. Nineteen-year-old Li Yu-hsiang has successfully qualified for the event, becoming Taiwan’s second figure skater to compete in the Winter Games.
B: I love to watch figure skating. Who are the most notable male figure skaters this time?
A: Two-time world champion Ilia Malinin of the US, Yuma Kagiyama of Japan and Adam Siao Him Fa of France are the top contenders.
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B: And Malinin is the only skater to land a fully rotated “quadruple Axel” (4A) jump during an international competition. How about the female figure skaters?
A: The front-runners include last year’s world champion Alysa Liu of the US, Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto, as well as Russia’s Adeliya Petrosian competing as an “Individual Neutral Athlete.”
A: 2026年米蘭─柯蒂納冬奧上週末在義大利開幕，19歲小將李宇翔是台灣史上，第2位滑進冬奧的花式滑冰選手唷！
B: 我最愛看花式滑冰了，男單選手有哪些亮點？
A: 花滑世錦賽2屆金牌、美國的伊利亞馬里寧，以及日本的鍵山優真、法國的蕭傳文都很強。
B: 馬里寧可是唯一在國際比賽完成足圈「4周半跳」（4A）的「四周跳之神」。那女單選手呢？
A: 花滑世錦賽去年金牌、美國的劉美賢，以及日本的?本花織、獲准以「個人中立」身分參賽的俄羅斯小冰后阿德蕾亞佩卓西恩也都很強。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
A: Apart from Pokemon, ancient Egyptian relics have attracted much attention lately. B: Are you talking about the “King of Egypt: Pharaoh” exhibition at Tainan’s Chimei Museum? Apparently, it’s the largest exhibit of its kind ever in Taiwan. A: Yup, Chimei is displaying 280 relics from The British Museum in London, causing a sensation since its opening last Thursday. B: And after nearly 20 years of planning and construction, Cairo’s massive Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has also been a global hit since its opening late last year. The GEM covers 500,000 square meters and boasts over 100,000 Egyptian artifacts A:
People praise the wisdom of owls and the loyalty of dogs, yet pigs are rarely commended for anything. Branded as lazy and dirty, they’ve long had a bad rap. But if you scratch beneath the surface, you’ll find that pigs are among the most underestimated animals of all. If you’ve watched the animated television series Peppa Pig, you’ll know how much pigs love muddy puddles. In truth, wallowing in mud is not a sign of poor hygiene but a matter of biological necessity. Because pigs have few functional sweat glands, they cannot regulate their body temperature like humans do.
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