hong kong team achieves great results at paris paralympics; legislative council members hope to provide more support to athletes with disabilities
2024-09-03
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china news service, hong kong, september 3 (reporter liu dawei) on september 2, local time, the paris paralympic games entered the fifth day of competition. athletes of the hong kong team won one gold and one silver in the women's individual bc3 hard court bowls and men's wh2 badminton singles.
zheng yongshun, a member of the legislative council of the hong kong special administrative region and vice chairman of the hong kong "major sports events affairs committee", said in an interview with china news service that the athletes' performance in overcoming difficulties and winning good results in the paralympic games was admirable and touching. zheng yongshun continued that since the tokyo olympics and paralympics, the hong kong special administrative region government has attached importance to sports development, increased resource investment in athletes, and made progress in sports medicine and science. this is also one of the reasons why hong kong athletes have achieved good results in international competitions.
zheng yongshun added that he hoped the sar government and all sectors of society would pay more attention and support to disabled athletes and continue to carry forward the spirit of a "barrier-free society" in hong kong.
it is understood that the athletes of the hong kong team who shined at the paris paralympics that day were hard court boccia player ho wan-kei and wheelchair badminton player chan ho-yuen. after they won medals, hong kong chief executive john lee, secretary for culture, sports and tourism kevin yeung, and non-official members of the executive council of the hong kong special administrative region congratulated them.
lee ka-chiu said that the good news from the hong kong delegation in this paralympic games made him and all hong kong citizens excited and proud. he called on citizens to continue to pay attention to the delegation's dynamics and support hong kong athletes.
in addition, earlier on the 2nd in paris time, hong kong athletes long zijian and zhang yuan won one gold and one silver respectively. as of the end of the fifth day of the paralympic games, the hong kong team rose to 24th place in the overall medal table with two golds, three silvers and one bronze, a total of 6 medals. this is higher than the two silvers and three bronzes, a total of 5 medals, won in the tokyo paralympic games.
it is understood that yang runxiong will also leave for paris, france on the evening of the 3rd beijing time to cheer for hong kong athletes participating in the paris paralympic games. (end)
