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The Hong Kong Sports Institute is a centre of excellence for Hong Kong sport in Fo Tan. It provides grants, coaching and training facilities for elite athletes with the goal of improving the standard of sport in Hong Kong. Sports are assessed on two- and four-year cycles to see if they meet performance benchmarks. The current elite sports supported by the Institute are: athletics, badminton, billiard sports, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, karatedo, rowing, rugby sevens, squash, swimming, table tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, windsurfing and wushu.
The city’s elite athletes have enjoyed unparalleled success in recent years. But many challenges lie ahead with a need to improve the training, facilities and opportunities available to Hong Kong’s talented sportspeople.
The city’s new commissioner for sports with his rare mix of athletic and management experience has a great deal of work ahead of him.
Their job is to focus on performance and it is event organisers and team officials who should ensure that the correct song is played.
The incident is a good lesson for sporting groups in that if they do not seriously follow the guidelines to uphold the dignity of symbols of national sovereignty, it is the athletes who will ultimately suffer.
Fencer’s Edgar Cheung Ka-long and Vivian Kong Man-wai and Hong Kong men’s football team have added to the city’s success at last year’s Tokyo Olympics with exceptional results. Their achievements have provided welcome relief from the city’s ongoing battle with Covid-19
The number of Hong Kong athletes qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games is in no small part down to the government’s understanding of the importance of sport and fitness to the city. This has not always been the case.
- Kregor Zirk, fifth in 200 metres butterfly at World Championships, had to pay €100 an hour to use pool in Estonia, so relocated to Hong Kong
- He believes working together at Hong Kong Sports Institute is giving Haughey ‘a little spark’ in her Paris medal hunt
Rugby bosses seeking out next generation of stars as drubbing in Australia highlights need for larger player pool, while elite coach Paul John wants to see ‘as many sevens tournaments as possible’ played domestically.
Head coach Gregory Koenig is bracing Cheung Ka-long for having a target on his back in Paris this summer, when he will defend his gold medal.
Oscar Coggins tackled feelings of hatred for triathlon after a ‘crushing’ Asian Games experience, with the help of a clinical psychologist he is in the best mental and physical shape of his life.
Gregory Koenig immediately spells out plans to claim a fourth straight coach of the year prize, after receiving 2023 award for overseeing more success for star fencer Cheung Ka-long
Swim sensation Siobhan Haughey and Olympic golden boy fencer Cheung Ka-long named ‘best of the best’ at Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards.
The world top-50 veteran says the game has made him mentally stronger but he will need to keep evolving to keep the next generations at bay.
Head coach Herve Dagorne is beginning to make his mark on Hong Kong cycling, initiating a series of changes and urging the city’s chiefs to think big.
Kenyan marathon specialist Lukas Wambua Muteti understands why two of his compatriots might have allowed a Chinese rival to win the Beijing Half Marathon.
Leading Hong Kong track cyclist Ceci Lee is trying to overcome the worry and fear that continue to accompany her on the start line of major omnium events
Readers discuss the public not being allowed to attend a swimming qualification event for the Paris Games, and tapping mainland stars as a tourist draw.
The city’s athletes have secured just 20 places so far at this summer’s multi-sport event, compared with 46 in Tokyo, but several are still in the running for spots.
‘These are the rules we agreed with, so we have to follow them,’ Hong Kong coach Gregory Koenig says as continent quotas leave defending champion Cheung Ka-long as the city’s only foilist going to Paris.
Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau declines to reveal medal target, but Michael Luk says Hong Kong government should be ‘proactive’ and match prizes from companies and Jockey Club.
Teenager Yeung Hoi-ching also breaks a city best, in the 200m butterfly at Hong Kong’s National Long Course Swimming Trial.
Ceci Lee, Hong Kong’s lone track cycling hope for the Paris Olympics, makes changes to try to overcome the inner demons that have plagued her in elite competition.
City’s team fighting to raise profile of the sport locally and attract investment by performing well at the ACC Premier Cup in Oman.
Frenchman Herve Dagorne is the new head coach of Hong Kong cycling following an interim spell in charge, with his immediate goal to help Ceci Lee qualify for the Paris Olympics.
Team GB’s Sian Rainsley wins elite women’s race, only for local organisers to play Spanish national anthem at medal ceremony.
Katie Zaferes claims second after failing to finish two weeks ago, and says Paris Olympics will be her last Games. Sian Rainsley and Alberto Gonzalez Garcia claim first World Cup wins.
Head coach Andrew Wright upbeat on Jason Ng, who is resuming his Olympic qualification bid, despite being victim of a hit-and-run last month.
Tracks Nations Cup organisers say they were under no pressure to deliver specific revenue or attendance figures, despite government granting the event ‘M’ Mark status.
Olympic hopeful struggles under weight of her own expectation during Sunday’s Nations Cup omnium race, says she was ‘thinking about all the people who wanted us to have good results’.
Hong Kong head coach Herve Dagorne considering pulling plug on Ceci Lee Sze-wing’s Madison Olympic bid, telling 22-year-old to go all out for omnium qualification
The Track Nations Cup attracted only a smattering of paying punters to Hong Kong Velodrome on Friday, but stayaways missed top-class racing.
Lee says she is in peak physical and mental shape, and ready to handle the pressure of chasing Olympic qualifying points in two events on home ground.
Cycling head coach Herve Dagorne is confident Lee will manage the ‘stress’ of racing in a home Nations Cup, in which crucial Olympic qualification points are up for grabs.
Coggins is back in training but has been advised to focus his sights on the 2025 National Games, while Hilda Choi Yan-yin is set to return after injuring a finger before the Asian Games.
Several athletes have accused the association of withholding government funds, something officials have denied. Now a Hong Kong lawmaker has urged the government to step in.
Matthew Tung was lent a Hong Kong tracksuit by a footballer, and could only use the gym at Hong Kong Sports Institute during his lunch break, yet achieved a record result for the city.
