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Opinion | Get your skates on, Hong Kong: it’s time for a Winter Olympics rethink when a Kim Jong-un prank gets more buzz than the sport
Kim and Trump impersonators provided plenty of laughs but would the majority of Hongkongers have even known the Games were on without their stunt?
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It’s a sad state of affairs when a Hong Kong prankster impersonating Kim Jong-un at the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang generates more interest in this city than any of the actual sporting events at the Winter Olympics.
The Hong Kong-born Australian known only as “Howard” and Dennis Alan, of Chicago, repeated their Hong Kong Sevens double act as Kim and Donald Trump to much fanfare on Friday at the Olympic Stadium, getting escorted by security guards from the media area.
They always provide a laugh and should probably be getting a thank you text message from Olympics organisers for generating some much-needed worldwide buzz for the Games.
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It’s fair to suggest that if it weren’t for them then half of Hong Kong would have barely known the opening ceremony – let alone the Olympics – was happening too.
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If you had been sat in any of the city’s popular watering holes on Saturday night, you will have seen the North London derby between Tottenham and Arsenal on the television screens, or the Six Nations rugby, instead of the speed skating in Pyeongchang.
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