The modern Olympic Games have a history of 125 years, but they are also seeking change.
This year's Tokyo Olympics added 5 new events in one breath, including skateboarding, surfing and sports rock climbing, which is refreshing.
Hong Kong Association and Olympic Committee Vice President Huo Qigang shared in an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01": "I have an older friend who told me that it turns out that it’s good to watch on skateboarding. It’s so good and stylish." Xiang Chaoren's sports have also attracted Mrs. Huo Qigang and "Queen of Diving" Guo Jingjing. She has also become fascinated by skateboarding recently. She laughed and said that stepping on the board can keep her body and mind young.
Hong Kong audiences are all attracted by the new Olympics this year. Will these emerging sports have a chance to become a sports project funded by the government?
Huo Qigang said that the current "elitism" under the "three modernizations" is a reward culture, and "athletes have rewards if they have a card." He hopes that the government will formulate sports policies in the future with an investment mentality rather than a reward mentality.
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The Hong Kong team won one gold, two silvers and three bronzes in this year's Olympics. Fok Qigang believes that this has an important relationship with the sports policy of "popularization, elitism, and grand event" put forward in 2002.
However, he also believes that everyone should take advantage of the success of the Hong Kong team and think about how Hong Kong can take the Hong Kong team to the next level in terms of sports policy.
The Hong Kong Government’s current award culture for sports policies is simply that there are medals and resources, but no medals but no resources.
This can also be seen in the thinking of scoring system or resource allocation.
Huo Qigang believes that with limited resources, this approach is understandable.
However, is there a reward to do well?
It seems not necessarily.
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Taking the award of medal-winning athletes as an example, Zhang Jialong, who won a gold medal for Hong Kong in the Olympics this year, can receive a bonus of HK$5 million from the "Henderson Elite Athlete Recognition Program" owned by the Sports Academy.
But in fact, in major medal countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the gold medalist's prize money is only 37,500 US dollars (about 292,500 Hong Kong dollars), and the British gold medalist has no bonus.
However, due to the success of industrialization, bonuses are not the main source of income for British and American gold medal athletes, and supporting facilities are also very important for athletes.
The British Jedi rebounded by systematically restructuring sports policy
Regarding the formulation of a set of sustainable and effective sports policies and mechanisms, while the UK has bounced back in the past 20 years, Huo Qigang believes that the country's sports policies must have some reference.
Britain's performance in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics was unsatisfactory. It won only one gold medal that year and ranked 36th in the medal rankings.
The bottom-line results gave the British government lessons learned and re-evaluated its sports policy from the most fundamental issues, and established the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) and UK Sport under its jurisdiction.
Twenty years later, the United Kingdom won 27 gold medals at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and jumped to second place on the medal list. The country was full of joy.
The British sports policy has a profound impact on the performance of the British cycling team, and it has become one of the successful cases of the best-selling book "Atomic Habits":
The advantage of reward culture is that it is easy to decide where resources should go, but it also lags behind others due to lack of foresight.
"We see that there are many potential new projects. Skateboarding and surfing are one of them. How will the government allocate resources to elite projects and non-elite projects?" Huo Qigang also said that other surrounding areas in Asia are already preparing. By then, Hong Kong No effort will be made to keep up.
Huo Qigang believes that the Olympics itself is also changing, adding many new projects, and seeing "a lot of good and potential sports are coming up, such as skateboarding." He also said that UK Sport has divided the funding projects into three levels. , Are Podium, Academy and Progression, and each class has a clear goal.
Moreover, the funded projects will be evaluated every 4 years, and in the long run, a major evaluation will be conducted every 12 years.
13-year-old British skateboarder Sky Brown won the bronze medal in this Olympics
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The first two classes are funding for cultivating medal hopes, and the last is a new investment to cultivate emerging sports.
There are currently 7 projects receiving funding at the Progression level, namely rock climbing, surfing, skateboarding, fencing, ping-pong wave, weightlifting and basketball.
UK Sport has formulated a sports policy for the UK and has just announced a 10-year plan from 2021 to 31.
The success of British sports policy is inseparable from professionalism and scientific research, and focuses on details.
"British Broadcasting Corporation" has reported that British sports experts will study the sleeping environment and quality of athletes in training bases.
For example, the size of the bed, the material of the sheets, the length of sleep, and so on.
After the study, it was found that athletes should sleep more than 24 minutes a day.
Researchers once said that if you sleep for 24 minutes a day, you get a total of 30 days of sleep in a training cycle, which definitely determines whether an athlete can win a medal.
Huo Qigang explained that the development of sports in Hong Kong should be studied and discussed by experts and carefully planned. For example, the future development of sports should be discussed. What are the advantages of Asians, etc.?
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The visit took place in a skatepark in the mall, and Huo Qigang's wife Guo Jingjing brought a private skateboarder to show off her enjoyment.
Everyone at the scene was surprised that she knew how to step on the board, and asked her why she would be interested in playing: "Can you stay young."
Guo Jingjing shared that she is also a beginner, having only played for a month or two, but has fallen in love with this sport.
At first, a friend introduced her to skateboarding. "At that time, I also wondered if I was so old, would skateboarding be a bit dangerous? But then I thought about it and thought that I should be able to stay younger. I found out after trying it. I like it very much."
Guo Jingjing went on to say, "(husband) also told me to be careful, saying that I am not 20 but 40 years old. Don't think that you are still very flexible. But I think it should be okay to give it a try." Now when I have time, Guo Jingjing I will also practice skateboarding and take the children to play together.
Perhaps Hong Kong's sports policy needs to be determined to "try it" after studying it.
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