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Hong Kong’s first Olympic gold medallist, Lee Lai-shan, on her biggest challenge – raising a family – and giving up windsurfing

• Lee Lai-shan, popularly known as San San, grew up in a big, poor but happy family on Cheung Chau and took up windsurfing at 12 years old because it ‘looked fun’
• After winning a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics, then retiring from the sport, she found raising two young daughters was just as tough, she tells Kate Whitehead