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Hong Kong
Hong Kong to send 15 to World Aquatics Swimming Championships; Chinese stars out
Siobhan Haughey will be out to win her fifth world title, while the Adams Chillingworth and Mak will be out to extend their ‘friendly rivalry’.
25 Nov 2024 - 8:00PM
IOC
‘We run the risk of losing women’s sport,’ says IOC presidential hopeful Coe
25 Nov 2024 - 5:53PM
IOC
Narendra Modi’s Olympics dream facing several hurdles, experts say
24 Nov 2024 - 3:30PM
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Sports Institute
Hong Kong officials defend coaches, blame weak-minded athletes for gymnastics woe
The Gymnastics Association of Hong Kong has struggled to consistently produce competitive athletes.
23 Nov 2024 - 8:55AM
Hong Kong’s Angel Wong competing on the balance beam in the qualifying round of the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp, Belgium in 2023. Photo: Xinhua
Hong Kong
Lacrosse
Hong Kong confident about holding on to World Lacrosse Super Sixes hosting rights
Sport’s local governing body expects event to remain in city until Los Angeles Olympics, where short-format lacrosse will make its debut.
22 Nov 2024 - 3:30PM
Hong Kong
2025 National Games
Hong Kong cycling in transition and can make a breakthrough, says legend Wong
Fellow Asian Games gold medallist Leung Chun-wing, who is now a coach at HKSI, backs city’s cyclists to step up at next year’s National Games.
19 Nov 2024 - 10:00AM
Hong Kong
Trail running and hiking
Hong Kong TransLantau by UTMB trail run organisers apologise after complaints
Hundreds of runners in the 50km event went without water, while many slam poor organisation, ‘having to fend for themselves’ during typhoon.
18 Nov 2024 - 6:14PM
Other Sport
Water sports
Exclusive
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Hong Kong officials double down on surfing ban, refuse to discuss change in law
Lawmaker Adrian Pedro Ho had requested meeting in hope of changing government’s mind, but instead was told officials would not budge.
18 Nov 2024 - 5:54PM
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Surfers take advantage of the waves whipped up by Severe Tropical Storm Trami at Big Wave Bay Beach. Photo: Antony Dickson
Hong Kong
Hong Kong sports
Term limits, stricter oversight on horizon for Hong Kong’s sport chiefs
Sources say committee has made recommendations on future code of governance, and report could be made public this week.
18 Nov 2024 - 7:00AM
Other Sport
Formula One (F1)
All eyes on Beganovic, but it’s Ugochukwu starting on pole at Macau Grand Prix
Bosnian-Swedish driver will start from 11th place on the grid at the 71st running of famous race.
17 Nov 2024 - 7:00AM
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Sports Institute
Hong Kong’s failings in athletics bring only silence from sport’s bosses
Chairman of city’s governing body Kwan Kee declines to discuss subject, while Sports Institute says its approach is ‘on track’.
16 Nov 2024 - 10:27AM
Sport
Hong Kong Sports Institute
Haughey says having pool named after her at SCAA not even on her ‘bucket list’
The sports club invited former coaches and members of her old swimming school to attend the naming ceremony in Causeway Bay.
13 Nov 2024 - 8:09PM
Siobhan Haughey is all smiles at the ceremony of a pool being named after her at South China Athletic Association. Photo: Edmond So
China
2025 National Games
First test event for National Games 2025 to be held this month, with more by May
Next week’s Hong Kong Open golf will kick off the tests, with cycling, beach volleyball, track cycling and triathlon among others to follow.
13 Nov 2024 - 8:00AM
Other Sport
Water sports
China’s Xu, Vendee Globe sailors’ clean start with ‘monster under the bed’ ahead
For the first time in several editions, the fleet avoided early mishaps that have plagued past races.
12 Nov 2024 - 11:13AM
Hong Kong
Fencing
Fencer Cheung will decide on plans for next Olympics by June, coach Koenig says
Hong Kong’s foil head coach says he is confident he will ‘find the words’ for his disciple to stay motivated to continue into the next Games.
12 Nov 2024 - 7:15AM
Other Sport
Marathons
‘We all can do it’: 88-year-old completes 12th marathon at Athens’ The Authentic
Ploutarchos Pourliakas’ latest race took place at the site where a messenger ran to bring the news from Marathon battlefield 2,500 years ago.
11 Nov 2024 - 8:00PM
Ploutarchos Pourliakas, 88, the oldest runner in the 41st Athens Authentic Marathon, after receiving his medal at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on Sunday. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong
Fencing
Kaylin Hsieh will fill Vivian Kong’s shoes as Hong Kong’s top epeeist: head coach
Zheng Zhaokang says Hsieh has already achieved much in the sport, and feels the Olympic champion’s departure will not affect the team.
11 Nov 2024 - 7:49PM
Other Sport
Tour de France
Cycling great Cavendish signs off with emotional win at Singapore Criterium
The 39-year-old, who holds the record for most Tour de France stage wins, pulled away after the final bend to win final race of his career.
10 Nov 2024 - 8:08PM
Paris Olympics 2024
Viral stories
Viral Paris Olympics star Kim takes break from shooting to spend time with family
The 32-year-old who rose to stardom during the Games, where she won a silver, says she is tired from the competing and public attention.
10 Nov 2024 - 6:03PM
Other Sport
Water sports
One-armed Paralympian to be China’s first sailor in around-the-world solo race
Xu, who competed in the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing and set a national record at the world championships, is set for his toughest challenge.
8 Nov 2024 - 5:30PM
Chinese skipper Jingkun Xu poses for a picture aboard his Imoca monohull ‘Singchaim Team Hikou’ before the 10th edition of the Vendee Globe. Photo: AFP
Other Sport
Hong Kong Sports Institute
China’s most decorated gymnast hails ‘brilliant career’ of Hong Kong’s Shek
Shek won Asian Games gold in the men’s vault in 2014 and 2018 and qualified for this year’s Olympics in Paris.
8 Nov 2024 - 12:06PM
Hong Kong
Macau
HZMB to host sports event for first time in cycling test race for National Games
More than 70 cyclists, including three from the city’s national men’s team, complete the 230-kilometre, cross-border ride on November 24.
7 Nov 2024 - 9:07PM
Hong Kong
Kai Tak Sports Park
Kai Tak’s first indoor test event will be local basketball game, sources say
Clash between Hong Kong’s under-22 National Games squad and City University expected to take place next month.
7 Nov 2024 - 12:41PM
OPINION
Lisa Lim
Language Matters
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Why ‘Paralympics’ is more inclusive now than when word was coined
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Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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After Olympics gender rows, how Chinese called people straddling sexes
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Tim Noonan
Opinion
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Ohtani gives baseball the moment it desperately needed
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Opinion
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Opinion
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