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Paul Ryding
Paul Ryding
Hong Kong
@pjrydo
News Editor, Sport
Paul Ryding is a sports writer who has been based in China since 2007. The Beijing Olympics took him to the Far East for six months, and the food, the people and the excitement surrounding the rise of sport in China kept him there until now. He spent eight years in Beijing before moving to Hong Kong in 2015.
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A disastrous spin on his way to the starting grid ends his sprint race chances as a sixth-place finish in the feature race sees Zhou fall 36 points behind championship leader.

A second seventh-place finish in two outings in Canada ensures Paul John’s team manage eighth spot overall in the 2021 Series as Max Denmark shines in hugely impressive win against Ireland.

Fu carried out over 20,000 knee surgeries since his first in 1981, 6,000 of them ACL repairs and was famously credited with saving the career of superstar footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

At six-under par, Hak is one shot off the lead at the end of day one, while Hong Kong teenaged sensation Sophie Han holds a share of fifth place in the women’s event.

Fourth place for Hong Kong as they lose in a bronze medal match that went right to the wire, and confirms Tokyo 2020 as the first Paralympics where it has failed to win a fencing medal in over 40 years.

The annual race returns on Sunday, October 24 with a slimmed-down field of 18,500 participants across the three categories, a vast reduction on the 74,000 runners who took part in 2019.