Sports Science

'The Needleman' delivers painful remedy for injuries

30 Apr 2013

In a clinic a short stroll from Mong Kok MTR station, Jeremy Ritcey yelps in pain. "That was getting close to a 10," he says, laughing nervously to distract himself from the needles piercing his...

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Marathon mania: Mind over muscle

5 Feb 2013

It's no secret that training for a marathon requires hard work, as early mornings, thigh-thrashing long runs and pushing near-sickening speeds become the norm.

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Make the best of the rest

8 Jan 2013

Rest replaces my usual schedule of drills, speed work and long runs on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

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Marathon Mania: week 3

18 Dec 2012

The standard formula for calculating one's maximum heart rate is "220 minus your age". But experts suggest the textbook is wrong: everyone's maximums, from heart rate to output, are different....

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Campaigners plan sit-in over national education curriculum in Hong Kong

24 Aug 2012

Anti-national education campaigners plan to stage a sit-in at government headquarters in response to a refusal by officials to even consider scrapping the controversial curriculum.

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Failing to make the cut doesn't mean child's sporting career is over

22 Apr 2012

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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Give non-athletic child a sporting chance

My Year Five son hates PE lessons. He is not naturally athletic or co-ordinated and generally shows no interest in sport. He often forgets to take his kit to school or pretends to feel ill to...

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Pupils to be taught to appreciate China

Learning to appreciate China will become a core part of a reformed curriculum which seeks to make national education a compulsory subject for all schoolchildren in Hong Kong, starting as early as...

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Should physical education be compulsory in schools?

Cathy Chan, 16, CCC Kei Chi Secondary School

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Suen restates opposition to smaller classes

Education minister Michael Suen Ming-yeung yesterday reaffirmed the government's refusal to introduce small-class teaching to solve the problem of under-enrolment in secondary schools.

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Poll exposes pupils' poor exercise habits

About 40 per cent of 1,970 secondary school pupils surveyed last month by the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association did not do any exercise apart from physical education classes. Half of them said...

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Overweight students face subtle discrimination: study

Teachers subconsciously discriminate against overweight students, with some physical education (PE) teachers describing them as 'inactive' and 'tardy', a survey has found.

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