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The Hong Kong Games opened on Sunday – the first time the multisport event has been held in five years. Sunday’s ceremony at Hung Hom Bay’s Coliseum saw an 18-district cheering team competition, as well as lion dancing, breakdancing, skateboarding, wushu, Latin dance, variety shows by elite athletes, and musical performances. The competition – which runs under the slogan “Our City, Our Games” – has been held every two years, except in 2022 when the games were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Events include athletics, badminton, 3-on-3 basketball, futsal, swimming, table tennis, tennis a...
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Hong Kong is to host eight competitions at the 2025 National Games, alongside events in Macau and Guangdong. It is the first time the city has co-hosted the Chinese sporting contest, which will see its 15th edition next year. At its inaugural meeting in Guangzhou on Thursday, the Organising Committee of the 15th National Games revealed that Hong Kong will host rugby sevens, beach volleyball, golf, triathlons, men’s handball and men’s under-22 basketball, as well as track cycling and bowling. Most events will be staged in Guangdong across 13 days from November 9 next year. Macau will host table...
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Hong Kong has purchased the broadcasting rights for the Paris Olympics this summer, with the games licensed to four TV stations in the city. Addressing reporters at a weekly press conference on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee said Hongkongers would be able to watch the Olympics and the Paralympics on TVB, ViuTV, HOY TV and public broadcaster RTHK. “[The purchasing of rights] is a response to Hongkongers’ wishes, allowing all Hongkongers to watch the Paris Olympics and Paralympics on TV for free so that we can all cheer for our athletes,” Lee said, speaking in Cantonese. He added that the bro...
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The sold-out Hong Kong Sevens kicked off at the Hong Kong Stadium on Friday, marking the international rugby tournament’s return to pre-pandemic popularity. The Sevens returned to Hong Kong after a two-year hiatus in November 2022 amid partial Covid curbs and limits on attendee numbers. The tournament was held again last March, with the stadium in Causeway Bay allowed at full capacity, after anti-epidemic regulations were fully lifted in the city. “This is a very special year for the tournament as we mark three decades inside the Hong Kong Stadium, and we are overwhelmed at the response of the...
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Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi has told Chinese fans that his absence from a much-publicised Hong Kong match was not political, after he was accused of attempting to humiliate the city as it aimed to boost its international image. In a video posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Monday night, Messi said it was “totally untrue” that he sat out the match earlier this month for political reasons. He repeated an earlier statement given to reporters that he had been suffering from inflamed leg muscles. “I’ve had a very close and special relationship with China,” the Inter Miami foot...
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A rare moment of public preoccupation has hit Hong Kong as a result of the incident which would in due course probably be called Messigate by the popular tabloids, if we had any left. The hero of this debacle is Lionel Messi, a footballer of sublime gifts who is now getting a bit long in the tooth. As footballers sometimes do at this stage of their careers, he has moved from the highly competitive European scene to the US of A, where the football is worse but the money is better. Not so much a swan song as a goose with golden eggs song. So, Messi now twinkles his agile toes for a new club call...
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The organiser of Inter Miami’s controversial exhibition match in Hong Kong – which saw football superstar Lionel Messi sit out the entire game – has announced a 50 per cent refund to fans amid pressure from officials and the public. Tatler Asia, which organised last Sunday’s pre-season friendly, on Friday said it would make the refund available to those who purchased tickets through “official channels.” Details about the refund process will be provided in March, it added in a statement. “We apologise to all those who were disappointed by the football match between the Hong Kong Team and Inter ...
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A Hong Kong lawmaker has warned that the organiser of Inter Miami’s controversial exhibition match in Hong Kong must give refunds to spectators within a week or face legal action. The controversy surrounding football superstar Lionel Messi’s no-show on the pitch last Sunday continued to spiral. On Thursday, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) legislator Tang Ka-piu issued a “final notice” to event organiser Tatler Asia, telling the company to compensate and apologise to fans who bought tickets priced up to HK$4,880 to watch the World Cup-winning captain. The lawmaker appeared outside ...
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China’s state-run Global Times has warned of possible “political motives” behind Lionel Messi’s failure to play in a much-publicised Hong Kong exhibition match, an absence which angered thousands of fans and the city’s government. In an editorial on Thursday, the paper said the explanations offered by the Argentinian football icon for remaining on the bench and those given by his team Inter Miami were “not convincing.” It urged the team to come up with a “reasonable explanation” before its scheduled visit to China for a pre-season friendly in March. “There is a lot of speculation about the tru...
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Hong Kong authorities are urging the organiser of an exhibition match to explain star footballer Lionel Messi’s absence from the pitch, Chief Executive John Lee has said, as the city’s consumer watchdog received over 400 complaints over the captain’s no-show. Two days after the the 36-year-old World Cup-winning captain was benched over a reported hamstring injury, prompting boos and calls for refunds from fans, Chief Executive John Lee on Tuesday told reporters that the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau is ordering the organiser, Tatler Asia, to address the incident. Lee said Tatler had faile...
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