Jockey Club Elite Squad athletes shared about the state of sport in HK
發佈日期: 2025-12-30 21:54
TVB News
Hong Kong held the equestrian events successfully during the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
The city has since been making progress in the sport and has developed a team of athletes competing and winning medals at international competitions.
Two members of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Elite Squad shared with TVB's Straight Talk programme the state of the sport.
Historically, I would say in dressage at least, Japan and Korea have been more up there, but right now we are really climbing up.
If you see our recent results in the Asian Games two years ago and the Asian Championships just now, we were team medalists, so we are definitely getting up there.
And we don't have the population numbers, for example, that many of these other countries have.
So perhaps we are not quite at the level of European countries because it is kind of a newer sport in our Hong Kong's history, but I would say we're really competitive at the Asian level for sure.
I think we have a great crop of talent.
And because the sport is developing so fast in the Mainland, we have a lot of riders who live there and can represent Hong Kong.
So I think once the Jockey Club realized that we have such a crop of talent there, and because most of the senior team is in Europe, some of them are in Hong Kong, so they needed somebody to also look after the kids over in the Mainland.
And so I have been going in and out to sort of check on them in some ways, to kind of mentor them, and share my own experiences.
