The Tokyo Olympics has brought a rare breathing space for Hong Kong, allowing Hong Kong people to find solace outside the political turmoil and social turmoil of the past two years, and let us put aside our political stance for the time being to re-examine Hong Kong's positioning and identity value.
It is a pity that some individuals have used pan-politicized methods to elevate their unintentional mistakes during the Olympics to politically correct disputes.
The jersey turmoil of Ng Ka-lang, the "one brother" of Hong Kong badminton, has also reflected that some people can also see the lack of support from sports organizations to athletes in addition to using athletes to "go online": Why is an athlete representing Hong Kong playing in the Olympics? You even have to prepare your own jerseys?
What's more, do athletes even have to come for sponsorship?
The Hong Kong team badminton player Ng Ka Long changed into a FILA jersey with the regional flag to play in the second group match on July 28 due to the jersey turmoil. In the end, he lost to his opponent with the number of games 0:2.
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Hong Kong athletes won the best results in history in this Tokyo Olympics, but this does not represent the progress of Hong Kong's sports development policy.
From the events that took place during the Olympics, we can get a glimpse of the Hong Kong government’s policies, which drove us to reflect on how to implement long-term sports policies and blueprints in Hong Kong.
What the citizens and even the government should pursue is not just so-called medals or one-off victories, but can continue to let Hong Kong athletes feel the attention and support of the Hong Kong government and Hong Kong society.
This is what it should be.
In this regard, Shi Zhongjian will propose four suggestions for improving the sports system in this article...
Shi Zhongjian,
a group of
post-90s
who have hope for the future of Hong Kong, believe that Hong Kong must fundamentally improve its governance in order to maintain its unique position in global politics and the rise of China, and put "One Country, Two Systems" back on track.
For details, please read the 277th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (August 9, 2021) "
Hong Kong Sports Policy Viewed from the Olympics: Four Qualitative Changes
".
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