Acrobatics in the cloud

During their one-hour live broadcast on the online video platform Bilibili, they performed six of their gold medal programs, power, rolling circles, balancing on pipes, magic, balancing a stack of bowls on the head and silk stripes. Li Chu, an actor in the Wuhan Acrobatic Troupe, interspersed the show with the knowledge about the art of acrobatics, and the audiences expressed their admiration and encouragement online.

Balancing a stack of bowls on the head is an acrobatic show familiar to Chinese audiences. The two girls, dressed in red floral costumes, stepped on the middle of the stage. The 23-year-old actress Huang Xiaolin has several stacked bowls above her. With the support and assistance of Liu Shiyi, the "base", Huang completed six difficult moves.

Li responded to questions from the netizens. "This seemingly effortless performance actually embodies the hard work of actors and actresses for more than a decade," he says.