Hong Kong prepares to celebrate 100 days to National Games with cycle ceremony
City’s leader John Lee to launch event at Velodrome, with co-hosts Macau and Guangzhou already in spirit of things
Hong Kong will mark 100 days until the start of the National Games with a countdown ceremony involving the city’s leader on Saturday, in a coordinated celebration with co-hosts Macau and Guangdong.
Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu will lead the event at the Velodrome alongside sports and tourism minister Rosanna Law Shuk-pui, and Yeung Tak-keung, the head of the National Games Coordination Office in Hong Kong.
Law and Yeung are expected to be among those completing the last 100km of a million kilometre challenge that has seen ordinary Hongkongers, collectively bike, run and walk their way to 999,900km already this month.
Lee will later head to Shenzhen to be part of an evening celebration, one of several taking place on the mainland this weekend.
On Sunday, Law and Yeung will head to Go Park Sai Sha, which, as part of a fitness day in the city, is staging a carnival hosted by the Hong Kong Guangdong Youth Federation.
The pair will be joined by athletes and other dignitaries for the event organisers said would serve “as a bridge” within the Greater Bay Area and deepen “the coordinated development of sports”.