‘Athletes on the national team … should maintain our national dignity and honour. Her conduct … failed to meet public expectations,’ Premier Su says.
The 22-year-old targets low-cost ‘interest classes’ in city’s biggest rinks for people of ‘all ages and skating abilities’ – ‘we want to break the image that skating is only for the top, elite echelon class of people’.
Beijing Games competitor Sidney Chu and Hong Kong’s first Winter Olympian Christy Ren outline how short-track speedskating would benefit from an international standard ice rink, from grass roots to elite level.
Country skaters Lee June-seo and Hwang Dae-heon were disqualified in semi-finals of speedskating race, and China’s Ren Ziwei and Li Wenlong went on to take gold and silver after benefiting from the decisions.
The US Alpine sking team are entirely white while snowboarders and freestyle skiers include Asian-Americans.
With Hong Kong’s first international-standard ice skating rink still in the works, Hong Kong’s Beijing Winter Olympics chef de mission Karl Kwok targets more cross-border training and ‘snow sports tourism’.
The pair’s father is from Tianjin and their strong north-eastern Chinese accent is a source of admiration for their China fans.
World champion Liu becomes Hungary’s first-ever individual gold medallist at the Winter Olympics after a dominant win in the final.
The 24-year-old has been eyeing Olympic gold ever since he won bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Gao completed an all-Asian podium with South Korea’s Cha Min-kyu taking silver and Japan’s Wataru Morishige winning bronze.
‘To compete next to Wu Dajing is already an incredible achievement,’ the 22-year-old says of China’s reigning Olympic champion.
The 22-year-old Sidney Chu outlines ‘very difficult race’ and ‘disadvantageous’ start position in the men’s 500m short-track speedskating heats against world record-holder Wu Dajing.
Footage from women’s 500m race at Winter Olympics appears to show Fan Kexin flicking a rink marker into the skates of Alyson Charles.
Speed skater was looking to add 1,500m title to the 1,000m and team relay golds he has already won. Earlier, Hong Kong skier Audrey King crashed out of the women’s slalom on her Olympic debut.
Hong Kong finally joins the fray in Beijing with alpine skier Audrey King up in women’s slalom, while China goes for more gold in speedskating and makes its debut in Nordic combined.
‘BTS ARMY’ jump to defence of group’s leader RM after Instagram post supporting South Korean short track speed skater sparks anger online in China.
Team China’s ‘gentle and adorable’ Coach Kim becomes hit with Weibo users after Ren Ziwei and Li Welong win Winter Olympics medals, with assistant An branded ‘traitor’ by former compatriots.
China hoping for more medals with golden girl Eileen Gu up in freestyle skiing big air final, while Japan’s ‘Ice Prince’ Yuzuru Hanyu makes his Beijing 2022 bow.
Short-track speed skater Ren Ziwei wins his second gold of the Winter Olympics, with Li Wenlong taking silver. Snowboarder Su Yiming claims silver of his own in slopestyle.
Teenager announces himself on Olympic stage in style during slopestyle qualification run and will be among favourites to take gold on Monday.
‘This is the largest delegation in Hong Kong history, but it didn’t seem like it’, says 22-year-old short-track speed skater Sidney Chu, as chef de mission Kwok explains IOC’s ‘strict’ opening ceremony field limits.