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Tokyo Olympics 2020: 14 Hong Kong Athletes You Should Know 

Stone Shek Wai-Hung will address Hong Kong's tumbling this year (Photo: The Hong Kong Sports Institute) By Lauren James July 22, 2021 

The current year's Olympic Games start off this month—here are a portion of the competitors addressing Hong Kong you should know 

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The current year's Summer Olympic Games will resemble no other. Having been deferred by one year, the worldwide game will likewise force another arrangement of rules upon its members to guarantee the Olympic town doesn't turn into a hotbed of Covid-19 contamination. There will be no talking during dinners, no competitor blending, no outings to eateries or utilization of public vehicle, and the choice whether to permit nearby onlookers was deferred until the finish of June. Actually May, there were even calls from Japanese residents to drop the games and stop the deluge of an expected 80,000 individuals into a country with the least pace of immunizations among created countries. 

Since first contending in quite a while in 1952, Hong Kong has won three awards: bronze by cyclist Lee Wai-sze for keirin in 2012, silver by Lo Lai-chak and Li Ching in men's copies table tennis in 2004, and Lee Lai-shan's (otherwise known as San San's) popular gold in mistral sailboarding, or windsurfing, in 1996. The city's avid supporters have high expectations for platform places at the current year's games in light of the fact that Hong Kong is entering a record number of competitors. Most eminent is the high number of ladies contending, a showing of the city's games projects' becoming stronger and commitment with young ladies. 

While extra competitors will qualify straight up to the beginning of the games, here are a portion of the Hong Kong contenders to keep an eye out for at the current year's Olympics, held from July 23 to August 8. 

See likewise: Tokyo Olympics 2020: 32 Female Asian Athletes You Should Know 

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Sarah Lee Wai-Sze 

This will probably be the last games for veteran track cyclist Sarah Lee Wai-sze, who is one of the city's most grounded platform trusts in Tokyo after her bronze in London, where she was additionally the Hong Kong banner conveyor. The 35-year-old, a full-time competitor for a very long time, has incalculable gold awards to her name, crossing the Asian Games, Asian Cycling Championships and the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, and holds Asian records in time preliminary occasions. 

She says: "To contend at a particularly novel occasion is an achievement in itself. You don't have to consider awards and things. Doing all that can be expected in this climate will mean I have effectively succeeded." 

Jessica Lee Hoi-Yan 

Jessica Lee Hoi-yan's Olympic story starts in Tokyo, and the 30-year-old track cyclist is sure she can convey at the Izu Velodrome in the wake of expenditure winter preparing and resting close by other Olympic hopefuls in the Hong Kong Sports Institute's Fo Tan air pocket office. The Hong Kong-conceived competitor, who moved to Glasgow when she was 11 and gotten back to address her introduction to the world city in her game as a grown-up, acquired her first World Cup platform finish in 2019 subsequent to having just taken up track cycling matured 24. 

She says: "This will be my first Olympics, so I'm not venturing out in front of myself. I'm simply going to appreciate it." 

Photograph: The Hong Kong Sports Institute 

Stone Shek Wai-Hung 

The appropriately named Stone Shek Wai-hung will address his old neighborhood on the vault in tumbling at his second games after his presentation in London. Notwithstanding not fitting the bill for Rio de Janeiro because of injury, the double cross Asian Games gold medallist has since recuperated his solidarity and structure and had strong platform results in the course of recent years. 

He says: "I simply need to perform as well as could be expected, continue to battle and go on to higher accomplishments." 

See likewise: Tokyo Olympics 2020: Meet the 23 Singapore Athletes Who Are Competing 

Stepahni Norton 

Twenty-year-old Stephanie Norton will be one of the first class competitors going to the Enoshima Yacht Harbor close to Yokohama for the Olympic cruising regatta. Norton, a full-time competitor who started her excursion into the game at the Hebe Haven Yacht Club in Sai Kung, impacted the world forever when she turned into the main female independent dinghy mariner from Hong Kong to meet all requirements for the Olympics in the wake of completing third at the Mussanah Open Championships in Oman in April. 

She says: "I'm really eager to have the chance to address Hong Kong in Tokyo. It's anything but quite a while since somebody in cruising, other than windsurfing, has qualified. The lead-up to the capability occasion has been very difficult, so it actually feels unbelievable that I will go to the Olympics." 

Thomas Heffernan Ho 

Getting back Hong Kong's first eventing Olympic decoration has been Thomas Heffernan Ho's fantasy since the 2008 Beijing Olympics equestrian occasions were arranged 

in Hong Kong. Eventing, "the marathon of the equestrian world", includes dressage, showjumping and crosscountry, and Ho, 31, is the main Hong Kong rider at any point to have equipped for the Olympics. His pony Tayberry, stunningly, is 20 years of age. 

He says: "The silver lining is that the additional year has given personal opportunity to plan and develop my physical and mental strength." 

Siobhan Haughey 

In the wake of addressing Hong Kong in 2016 in Rio, 23-year-old Siobhan Haughey will make her Olympic return this year in five classifications: 50m, 100m and 200m free-form, and the 4 x 100m and 200m free-form transfers. The Hong Kong-Irish swimming star, who has her own line of swimwear and is preparing to turn into a youngster therapist, had a crushing beginning to 2021, breaking her own Hong Kong record for 200m free-form and arriving at the world's third-quickest season at an April time preliminary. 

She says: "In the event that I can get an award, obviously that would be incredible. I realize this is my subsequent Olympics yet I likewise don't have any desire to give myself an excess of pressing factor since, supposing that I overthink it, that is the point at which I fail to meet expectations. So I simply need to go in, stay quiet, loose, yet in addition appreciate the entire experience." 

Stephanie Au Hoi-Shun 

Three-time Olympian and 2016 Hong Kong banner conveyor Stephanie Au Hoi-disregard will contend in her fourth games this year in the ladies' 100m backstroke, and in the 4 x 100m and 200m free-form transfers with Haughey. Matured 29, the low maintenance model will give it her all in what she says will be her last games. She holds numerous Hong Kong records in free-form and backstroke in both short and long course occasions. 

She says: "I generally pursue the adage of 'I can do it.'" 

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Oscar Coggins 

The relentless Oscar Coggins might be one of Hong Kong's surprisingly strong contender award chances in Tokyo, as indicated by neighborhood sports intellectuals. The city's top marathon runner, positioned 47th on the planet and third in Asia, will be one of 55 men finishing a 1,500-meter swim, a 40km bicycle ride and afterward a 10km run at Odaiba Marine Park. He asserted his spot in April subsequent to coming fourth at the Asian Triathlon Championship in Hatsukaichi, Japan. 

He says: "I'm certain I can bring the structure I'm encountering in every individual game together in rivalry this year." 

Beauty Lau Mo-Sheung 

Envision contending as an outsider in the country where your game began and with which it remains firmly related. That is the overwhelming assignment that lies aheadfor Grace Lau Mo-sheung, who qualified for the Olympics with karate, one of the five new decoration programs for Tokyo. Lau will be battling in the individualized structure occasion, which makes a decision about contenders on force and accuracy. These games will be urgent for the world's karatekas: the military workmanship won't be incorporated at the Paris Olympics in 2024. 

She says: "In the event that we can't contend again in Paris 2024, Tokyo stays the solitary possibility for an Olympic decoration, which we should prize." 

Doo Hoi-Kem and Wong Chun-Ting 

Asian nations rule table tennis all around the world, with highest level China flaunting 53 Olympic decorations to date. One of just three games in which Hong Kong has won Olympics awards, table tennis addresses a sensible platform bet for this present year. The city will send six competitors to Tokyo, and its most grounded trusts lie with Doo Hoi-kem (beneath right) and Wong Chun-chime, who will contend alone, all together duplicates pair and inside single-sex groups. 

Throughout the most recent quite a while, Doo and Wong have fashioned an ironclad dynamic inside the universe of ping pong, acquiring profound respect for wins in rivalries from one side of the planet to the other. Together, they are positioned fourth on the planet and will have their sights set on expanding upon Hong Kong's 2004 silver in Athens. Hong Kong will surely be flexing its solidarity in the current year's games: additionally going to Tokyo are Ho Kwan-unit and Lam Siu-hang in the men's group and singles, and Lee Ho-ching and Soo Wai-sweet potato in the ladies' group and singles. The crew is likewise the city's first completely local Olympic group after Hong Kong sent territory China-conceived major parts before. 

Hayley Chan Hei-Man 

London 2012 gave Hayley Chan Hei-man her first Olympic trip—after a year, she was positioned second on the planet in the RS:X class. The 30-year-old windsurfer barely passed up capability in 2016 and considered stopping her game until a motivational speech from a previous auxiliary teacher assisted her with discovering her inspiration once more. In the course of recent years, Chan has expanded her experience as a surfer, gotten gold at the 2014 Asian Games, and has prepared hard with her group in Stanley. In the event that anybody can proceed with San's inheritance, it's Chan. 

She says: "The significant thing is the means by which I'll convey my exhibition on the day, particularly in the Olympics when it will be much more tense. In some cases, I care a lot about outcomes and it tosses my course of action into confusion. The possibility is consistently there in Tokyo." 

Michael Cheung Chun-Leung