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Oh (golden) boy! News has it that celebrated track and field star and hometown favorite Liu Xiang will be competing at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix later this month. The Golden Grand Prix will serve as both a comeback and a homecoming for the track star, whose presence on the international sports scene has been sorely missed by China.

• Just as a reminder, A Nice Set, the artistic placemat exhibition, starts tomorrow at 7pm! We'll be there, snapping pics of the artists and the Neocha Edge people! Check our calendar for more details. [Neocha Edge]
• Also happening this weekend is the Shanghai Sevens, Shanghai's first major international rugby sevens competition. We could care less about the rugby, but we'll be hollerin' at the rugby players all weekend. [Ultimate Rugby Sevens]
• Meanwhile, if you love pie (and who doesn't?), you could always head out to Kommune Cafe tonight to eat FREE ones, made by the delectable Shanghai Pie Company, tonight. You can even join the competition to eat as many pies as you can in 10 minutes. Scarf it up! [Urbanatomy]

Everybody's favorite sports event (besides the Olympics, and the Asian Games), The Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, is back! The field and track event is rated as one of the best events of its kind in the world, even surpassing some of the Golden League events held in Europe.

• Shanghai is going to be the next stop for A Nice Set, a traveling exhibition of customized slipmats designed by leading artsts from around the world. The exhibition will open at 7:30pm on September 12 at SOURCE. [Neocha Edge]
• The Wall Street Journal has a great piece on Zhaohang village, which contains land that would've been razed to build Shanghai Disneyland. As is the way in China, many villagers didn't get the compensation they were hoping for. [WSJ]
• Bad news for all those trying to make a quick buck on their foreign faces, apparently Shanghai is cracking down on foreign people modeling firms. [Shanghai Daily]

A few updates on the Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Sasha's this Thursday:

Yeah yeah, we know. We're sick of the Olympics, too. But who can say no to the Boltman?

Oksana Chusovitina: A mother's love knows no bounds and this is fully exemplified in the life story of Oksana Chusovitina, only one of a handful of women to stay in competitive gymnastics after motherhood. She formerly represented the Soviet Union and her native Uzbekistan and has competed for Germany since 2006. When her son Alisher was diagnosed in 2002 with leukemia and doctors in Moscow could not guarantee quality care, Chusovitina accepted an offer of help from the head coaches of the Toyota Cologne club and moved to Germany. With her competition prize money and funds raised by members of the international gymnastics community, she was able to secure treatment for her son at the University of Cologne's hospital while training with the German team. Chusovitina is the only female gymnast ever to compete in five Olympic Games, and won a silver in the vault final at the Beijing Games.