The Dragon Boat Festival returned triumphantly to Hong Kong on June 22 after a few years of absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven districts in Hong Kong, including Stanley, Aberdeen, and Tai O, organized large-scale dragon boat races this year. Additionally, unaffiliated with the Government Tourism Bureau, various local villages held smaller yet culturally…

Hong Kong female speed swimmer Siobhan Bernadette Haughey won the women’s 100 meter freestyle with a time of 51.59 seconds on the last day of the short-course FINA Swimming World Cup in Berlin on Oct. 23, making it her a third gold medal at this tournament. Haughey advanced to the final with a time of…

Thousands of people in the audience stood up and applauded. Pun Ho Lam, who made his first appearance on the world-class juggling stage, took his “baby” kendama (sword and ball) to say thank you to the audience. When he heard the organizer announcing that he was the winner of this year’s “IJA Juggling Championships,” for…

In the Davis Cup World Group II tie against Taipei on Sept. 17-18, Hong Kong was defeated 3:1, but the close doubles match was an important win for Taiwan. The Hong Kong Tennis Team played a full-strength Taipei team at the Taipei Tennis Center, for a place in the Davis Cup World Group I play-off…

The Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates (HKAAA) announced on Sept 16, the cancellation of the 2022 event planned for Sunday, Nov 20 as it had not received a formal approval notice from the Hong Kong government for the event. The delay in HKGov’s response has caused the association to cancel the event. The HKAAA…

The Hong Kong Football Association (HKFA) announced on Sept. 16 that the Hong Kong Football Team will play two friendly matches against Burma (also known as Myanmar) at home on Sep. 21 and Sept. 24. This will be the first time a foreign team to come to Hong Kong for a game since the pandemic…

The 2022 Men’s U21 Lacrosse World Championships took place between Aug. 10 and Aug. 20 in Limerick, Ireland. The U.S.A. beat Canada 12-10 in the final on Aug. 20 to win their ninth consecutive men’s U21 World Championship. America won all of its matches in both the pool and knockout phases of the competition to…

Like most major sporting events, snooker tournaments have only recently restarted following a break due to the COVID-19 hiatus. The UK Women’s Snooker Championship was played in Leeds, England on July 30-31, following a break for most tournaments of more than two years. Hong Kong’s Ng On-yee came onto the world snooker scene in 2009…

Hongkonger Timothy Ho Chu-ting, shares his journey, experience, and future plans as a professional rope-skipping athlete. Rope-skipping has been an important part of his life for nearly 20 years. At the age of 27, Ho is now a rope skipping coach. Looking back on his sports journey, Ho believes that emotional discipline is the key…

The World Games 2022 is taking place July 7 to 17, 2022, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Tokyo Olympic karate bronze medalist Grace Lau Mo-sheung of Hong Kong, competed in the women’s individual kata event at the World Games. Lau successfully won her first World Games medal, after defeating Carola Casale from Italy, in the Bronze…