Inside Incheon: Shek Wai-hung's rags-to-riches tale is tailor-made for film
Gymnast's feel-good story of redemption would be a box office smash
They are taking a poll here in an effort to determine the best athlete at these Games. It is organised by that Korean company, which makes everything from cars to computers, and those eligible to vote are primarily the 9,500 members of the media in Incheon.
I decide to put my two cents in and walk up to vote. There is a list of candidates mostly made up of South Koreans, Chinese and the world record-breaking North Korean weightlifters.
Squash star Nicol David of Malaysia is one of the few athletes outside the pantheon of East Asian greats included in the list. But there is also an option for "other athlete". I go for this and pick Hong Kong gymnast Shek Wai-hung.
From humiliation and defeat, Shek had risen to the pinnacle of the sport in Asia winning Hong Kong its first gymnastics gold.
I know the gold medallist in the men's vault has absolutely no chance of winning, but a vote is a precious thing. So Shek it is.
If there was a Hong Kong MVP, it would be between Shek and cycling ace Sarah Lee Wai-sze who became the first local athlete to win two gold medals at the same Games. Perhaps in Hong Kong's best traditions of picking the Sports Star of the Year, where six athletes are chosen, we could have both, a His and a Her MVP, so Shek and Sarah are both recognised.
Yet, if it came to it, my choice would still be Shek simply because his is a rags-to-riches story of how an athlete who fell on his backside at his first Olympics, picked himself up and went on to beat the world and Olympic champion just two years later.
I could see his story being turned into a movie by Hong Kong producers. Shek's dad is a minibus driver. When Shek decided to pursue his dream - he fell in love with gymnastics watching the sport on television - he was funded by well-wishers.
At the age of 12 he left home and went to a sports school in Hunan province to learn how to do the twists and turns that would vault him to fame.
He came up against an athlete who had moves named after him - Yang and Yang 2, the somersault turns that had the world gasping in admiration at the London Olympics.
South Korea's world champion Yang Hak-seon had seen Shek fall on his backside at the London Olympics as he gracefully pirouetted his way to gold and he would not have viewed the Hongkonger as a real threat.
Before the competition began, all the attention was on whether Yang would show off his Yang 2 move. South Korean media was only worried about North Korean rival Ri Se-gwang.
But both Yang and Ri made blunders. Shek, the man everyone had forgotten - even the Hong Kong delegation officials who make it a point to be at an event if they think there's a chance of a local athlete winning a medal, but hadn't turned up for the men's vault final - stole the show.
From humiliation and defeat ("I wanted to die right there"), Shek had risen to the pinnacle of the sport in Asia winning Hong Kong its first gymnastics gold.
His story is a stirring one tailor-made for film. He gets my vote hands down.
Just another day to go of these Games.
