Winter Olympics: Hong Kong skier Audrey King fully focused for slalom debut, as media unearth family ties to former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa

The 19-year-old comes through Covid-19 scare ahead of Beijing 2022 women’s slalom event on Wednesday, and is blocking all distractions out

Reporters reveal King is the granddaughter of Tung’s sister, Alice, while father Stephen owns the city’s only snow sports simulator centre

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Hong Kong alpine skier Audrey King after training at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Photo: HKSF&OC

Published: 8:15am, 9 Feb 2022

Audrey King is first up for Hong Kong’s record-breaking Winter Olympics delegation – and she is blocking all distractions out as she applies the finishing touches to her preparations for Wednesday’s women’s slalom event on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old finally got in some socially distanced slope time at Beijing’s Yanqing National Alpine Ski Centre this week, after coming through a Covid-19 scare last weekend.

Subject to a mandatory PCR test six hours before her event, she is set to make her Olympic debut in run 1 at 10.15am.

Having deferred her entry to Harvard University by a year, King believes the extra preparation has helped her reach peak physical and mental condition.

Hong Kong alpine skier Audrey King training on the slopes of Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing. Photo: HKSF&OC

“Physically, there’s been a lot of improvement since last year. I can see that in race results,” King, who qualified for the Games in Montenegro last year, said.