South China Morning Post - Hong Kong Sport

Hyrox executives and coaches believe the indoor fitness competition will not follow in the footsteps of gym trends that have briefly captured the imagination before fading from view, in part because its universal format gives it global appeal. While competitions such as CrossFit, HIIT and a variety of outdoor obstacle races have largely struggled to build on their initial popula...

After a flying reconnaissance visit to Japan, where they dodged deer and navigated treacherous, rain-sodden descents, the daredevil cycling pair of Chloe Leung Wing-yee and Vincent Lau Wan-yau have equipped themselves with the smarts to launch Hong Kong’s Asian Games campaign in grand style next week. If it is a bugbear of Herve Dagorne’s that each delegation is allowed only one...

When she shattered her pelvis in 2011, Jacqueline Lai Jing-man wondered if the music had stopped on her athletic career after one Asian Games experience just months earlier – 15 years on she is ready for her fifth. Part of the team jumping quartet that claimed Hong Kong’s first Games equestrian medal, it was soon after she won bronze in Guangzhou in 2010, that her mother, the fo...

As a whopping 580-strong Hong Kong squad prepares to go to this month’s Asian Games on the taxpayers’ dime, one of the city’s leading coaches has said that cash is being squandered on athletes who have no right to generous financial backing. While not pointing the finger in any specific direction, Andrew Wright, the Hong Kong triathlon head coach, said sports bodies in the city ...

The city’s top player, Lee Cheuk-yiu, said he had witnessed the “best day in badminton history for Hong Kong” despite going down in straight sets against compatriot Jason Gunawan at the China Masters in Shenzhen on Sunday. World No 25 Lee, who had finished second at the India Open in 2024 and 2025, stormed to the final after eliminating the likes of fellow Hongkonger Angus Ng Ka...