Windsurfing

Windsurfing back in Olympics after U-turn by sailing federation

12 Nov 2012

The Hong Kong Open windsurf-ing competition ended on a jubilant note yesterday as sailors and officials celebrated the unexpected restoration of their discipline to the Olympic Games programme.

Ruling body rejects windsurfing's attempt to return to Olympics

11 Nov 2012

Windsurfing is clinging to a final, slim chance of returning to the Olympic Games despite a fresh setback appearing to drive a nail in its coffin.

Hong Kong hope Olympic ruling will be in their favour

8 Nov 2012

A compromise agreement where windsurfing and its upstart rival kiteboarding will share the Olympic stage at Rio de Janeiro in 2016 could raise Hong Kong's medal hopes - if a deal is hammered out...

Compromise in the air for return of windsurfing to Olympics

12 Oct 2012

A compromise could mean kiteboarding and the sport it replaced, windsurfing, will both appear at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, a leading Hong Kong sailing official said.

Kiteboarders turn down support from wealthier windsurfer 'brothers'

12 Sep 2012

The new Olympic discipline of kiteboarding has refused the hand of friendship from its "big brother", windsurfing, even though the latter enjoys all the financial support.

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Battling Chan deserves special medal for grit

There are several definitions of a 'champion' and now there is another to add to the Hong Kong windsurfing glossary - Hayley Chan Hei-man.

Chan will take flight in medal chase

Tenacious windsurfer Hayley Chan Hei-man is preparing to make a giant aquatic leap for Hong Kong and take up kitesurfing so she can compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Losses key to San San's success

Hard times and coming last teach you the best lessons in life, says Olympic heroine Lee Lai-shan as memories of Atlanta 1996 and Olympic competition come flooding back over the next two weeks....

End games

Hong Kong has only ever won one Olympic gold medal. It was awarded to Lee Lai-shan, who took first place in women's windsurfing at the 1996 Atlanta Games, and with only a few weeks until the...

'Becalmed' windsurfer carries on regardless

This summer's London Games may be the last time we see windsurfing at an Olympics, but rising star Aaron Ng Wing-cheung is determined to stay in the sport.

Ugly scrap likely over ouster of windsurfing

Top Hong Kong official Cowen Chiu But-kau believes the International Sailing Federation's (ISAF) general assembly in November will turn ugly after it emerged that Spain's representative at the...