The United States’ women are already preparing to defend their Olympic foil team gold in Los Angeles in 2028, head coach Ralf Bissdorf said on Sunday, after his young side finished third in the World Cup event in Hong Kong. Defeat to France in the semi-finals kept the Americans outside the top two for the…
Wheels were turning in more ways than one at a packed Hong Kong Velodrome last month when cyclist Ceci Lee Sze-wing rode to her third gold medal of the 15th National Games. Roared on by home spectators, it symbolised the successful realisation of the decision for the city to co-host the Games alongside Guangdong and…
The role of sport in bringing people closer together is well recognised. It is not confined to international competition between countries and individuals. Sport can cement national and regional unity. The coming National Games in the Greater Bay Area, in which Hong Kong has a prominent role as a co-host, is a case in point….
Hong Kong head coach Andrew Wright has hailed an “awesome” development after his athletes were granted unlimited access to a high-performance altitude centre in the mainland Chinese province of Yunnan. Wright’s bosses this week penned a memorandum of understanding with the Yuxi Municipal Education and Sports Bureau, which established a training site roughly 1,630 metres…
Tickets for the National Games will be available in Hong Kong from August, three months ahead of the event, to synchronise with sales in Macau and on mainland China, the head of the local coordination office has said. Yeung Tak-keung, head of the National Games Coordination Office, said on Tuesday that the tickets would be…
There were choice words this week from former Kerry footballer and clothing designer, Paul Galvin. “Hard to believe it’s not an episode of Father Ted,” he tweeted as tradition butted heads with progress and the skort war rumbled on. Galvin was bemused that we had somehow arrived at a point in 2025, where camogie players…