Olympic spirit in Hong Kong: rare torches on show in city for the first time
Mong Kok exhibition boasts more than 30 torches from past Games in a display that runs until the end of August
Hong Kong will play host to five valuable Olympic torches for the very first time, exhibiting them among 30 others at the Pioneer Centre in Mong Kok.
The torches are on loan from Olympic memorabilia collector Chow Kim-hung, who owns 60 of them and more than one million items collected from past Olympic Games.
The five torches, which have never been displayed in Hong Kong until now, are from 1980 (Moscow), 2000 (Sydney), 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London) and 2014 (Sochi).
Chow, who has been collecting various sports items since he was a child, plans to keep accumulating torches from the Games, including one from Rio de Janeiro next month.
“I’ve been collecting for 50 years now because the Olympic Games is an event that will never fadeand willstay around for forever,” he said.
“It also encourages people from different backgrounds to come together.”
