The Hong Kong team won at least one gold and two silvers in the Tokyo Olympics, and the whole city cheered.
The medal not only proves that the individual sports skills are superb, but also can unite people's hearts and enhance Hong Kong's image in the world.
Hong Kong follows the elite-oriented sports policies around the world and concentrates on the development of advantageous projects.
However, many people in the sports sector remind that the elite of sports should not be excessive, so as not to ignore one or the other, or to distort the athlete's mentality and compete only to retain resources.
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Hong Kong men's fencing representative Zhang Jialang wrote the Hong Kong team's historical record in the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first Hong Kong athlete to win an Olympic gold medal since 1996.
(Reuters)
In recent years, retired or more senior active athletes have questioned the subsidy policy, which has made elite sports training more utilitarian.
Three years ago, Zhang Junle, a retired karate fighter of the Hong Kong team, admitted in an interview that the sports coach will try his best to train the athletes who have the most chance of winning in order to maintain the project funding. However, high-intensity training can easily damage the athletes' bodies. Retire due to injury.
Zhang Junle is not the only one who is dissatisfied with this.
A few days ago, the forward of the 2009 East Asian Games Hong Kong football team, Chen Zhaoqi, who retired last year, congratulated the Hong Kong team on the Tokyo Olympics, and advised the government not to "submit money if there is a medal, and not if there is no medal."
In the past nine years, Shi Weixiong has experienced ups and downs.
(Photo by Yu Junliang)
But to count the deepest feelings, perhaps Shi Weixiong, the only representative of this year's Hong Kong team gymnastics.
He said in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games that there was pressure in the competition, "because gymnastics has to stay in the gym, and you have to win cards before you can stay in the elite event." In the end, he won the gold medal.
He was regarded as the favourite to win the Olympics this year, but finally missed and ranked 12th.
He and the entire gymnastics team must win and not lose in other competitions, otherwise there is a risk of relegation...
For details, please read the 276th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (August 2, 2021) "
Sports elites are not as good as the funding model to avoid short-sightedness and short-sightedness
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