Such a good match, I’ve just rewatched it with my kids. Having lived all their life here, they genuinely didn’t know who to root for, the Italian or the Hongkonger. That was funny.
Such a good match, I’ve just rewatched it with my kids. Having lived all their life here, they genuinely didn’t know who to root for, the Italian or the Hongkonger. That was funny.
At lunch today at the local diner all eyes were on the TVB screen for women's fencing!
Her's is still an amazing story but when I first read it I thought she was unfunded using family support or something.
She was enlisted and made a sergeant in the army so she could get the salary from that plus an allowance from the POC plus a donation of a couple of million from Senator Go (which really means Duterte). So not enough when looking at training and living abroad but not begging like Eddie the Eagle.
Yep, I did read the stuff about being enlisted in the air force, which looked like some kind of unofficial state support.
But watching the video of her workout area was a far cry from what any first world nation (or any hyper competitive large nation) would have set up. It's not like weightlifting needs million dollar training facilities, but air conditioning would be kind of de rigueur!
Also, the level of analysis and feedback from any moneyed-up nation would be on an entirely different level to what she would have had access to.
Over the winter with the covid closures, a couple of friends and I set up an outdoor gym in HK, and we were all too weak to keep using it once it started getting hot. I cannot imagine how hard it would have been to consistently train for top level performance in a Malaysian summer (or even top level training anywhere, tbh!)
And we have a silver ...
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...abChangeable=0It's a remarkable achievement for Haughey, who is the first Hongkonger ever to reach an Olympic swimming final. Canada's Penny Oleksiak took the bronze.
The 23-year-old ace is expected to be back in action tonight as part of the Hong Kong team in the women's 200m freestyle relay and the 100m heats. She's also got the 50m freestyle individual event to come, as well as the medley relay.