Men's fencing representative Zhang Jialang defeated Italian Garroso in the foil final, becoming the first Hong Kong team player to win an Olympic gold medal since 1996, writing an important page in Hong Kong's history.
After the game, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the Liaison Office of the Central Committee of the People’s Republic of China, a number of Secretary-Generals, and the President of the Legislative Council successively expressed congratulations through press releases or posts on social networks. Politicians across factions also expressed joy through social networking sites. This has been a heavy social atmosphere in Hong Kong in the past two years Next, a rare occasion of celebration.
The above scenes may seem familiar to some Hong Kong people: after the Hong Kong football team won the gold medal in the East Asian Games 12 years ago, Hong Kong also set off a "football fever". The Hong Kong government launched the "Phoenix Project" to develop football. However, in the past 12 years, the development of local football has not improved, and the results in international competitions have not been broken.
The former captain of the Hong Kong football team who participated in the East Asian Games to win the championship, Chen Weihao, told the reporter of "Hong Kong 01" that Zhang Jialang's victory was undoubtedly a great encouragement to the Hong Kong sports world, but from the perspective of sports policy, the government should think clearly about how to protect the lives of athletes. Let them concentrate on training instead of worrying about their livelihoods, and hope that the official will not celebrate after a round of celebration, the "three-minute heat" forgot to protect the athletes.
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Chen Zhaoqi criticizes the Hong Kong government: if there is no medal, the back row will be the first
From 2011 to 2014, the Hong Kong government allocated an additional 20 million yuan each year to the FA to implement the "Phoenix Project" for 3 years, and later transformed into the "Five-Year Strategic Plan to Strive for the Highest One Heart" plan. However, the development of football has been accused of effectiveness over the years. Insignificant.
In addition, in recent years, some media have successively exposed the FA's "confused accounts" problem, including the FA Audit Committee "disappeared" for no reason, did not meet for five years, and salary expenses have expanded year after year.
In the 2009 East Asian Games champion, former Hong Kong team forward Chen Zhaoqi wrote on social networks last night: "First of all congratulations to Zhang Jialang, this time I will be out of the shadows, and then talk about key events, several venues, and then Focus on training young fencing athletes.” He said that sports require long-term funding, rather than “if you have medals, don’t subsidize them”, the government should look a little farther, instead of “no medals in the back row and win medals.” "On the top of the enterprise", he said that he has "personal experience" in this regard, and it seems that there is a lot of dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong government's support for sports policies.
Chen Weihao: Only with medals will be valued. Policy thinking has room for discussion
Chen Weihao explained to the reporter of "Hong Kong 01" that the government's support for sports has always been based on performance. For example, if football scores lack breakthroughs, they are excluded from the elite sports of the sports college, but this is "the chicken first sets the eggs first." The question is, I think this policy thinking has room for discussion, "Obviously football is the most popular sport, how can it be treated like this?"
He also pointed out that the Hong Kong government launched the "Phoenix Project" that year, in fact, it did not prescribe the right remedy. He believes that the most lack of resources in sports is not necessarily the tailor-made life of athletes. For athletes, the biggest problem lies in life. Support, can we let them concentrate on training and win glory for Hong Kong, but the government seems to have failed to take care of the athlete’s immediate needs: "For example, will he get a certain result and at least give him a public housing unit? (Zhang) Jia Lang may himself Family financial conditions are not bad, but what about other athletes? I believe that if he had not won the gold medal, the government would not necessarily value him."
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Ye Honghui: Resources may not directly benefit players
Another hero of the 2009 East Asian Games champion team, Oriental Dragon and Lions goalkeeper Ye Honghui said, "If you have results, you have to subsidize" is the long-standing principle of the local sports world. "It is important to see if you can continue to hold medals."
As for the destination of the government's resources, he pointed out that football is different from other sports: "Football always has professional players. We have clubs. It is a private company. It is difficult to directly fund a commercial organization. It is always necessary to go through some intermediaries (referring to Football Association).” He believes that after resources are handed over to the President to raise funds, sometimes they may not directly benefit the players.
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