‘Dark day for Hong Kong’s sports community’ narrowly avoided after CityU rooftop collapse
Hundreds of athletes were supposed to attend annual celebration banquet at the Chan Tai Ho Multi-purpose Hall on Saturday
City University athletes were still in a state of shock on Saturday – one day after the rooftop collapsed at the venue where they were supposed to attend their annual celebration.
Volleyball player Devin Chung Wai-sze was scheduled to join hundreds of other athletes at the Chan Tai Ho Multi-purpose Hall for the function, which had to be scrapped because of the incident. Dozens of other students who were also using the gym on Friday were affected.
“We could have all been killed at the celebration,” Chung, who was recently named volleyball player of the year by the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong, said.
“It would be not only be a dark day for our university, but for the whole sports community in Hong Kong as so many talented sportsmen may have died there.”
Chung’s teammate in both the university and Hong Kong teams, Vincent Wong Wing-chun, was in one of the gymnasiums in the building when the rooftop collapsed.
“A worker came into our room and said the rooftop had collapsed and we had to leave the building,” said Wong, a third year criminology student.