Opinion | Hong Kong sport endured its very own annus horribilis in 2020. Where to from here?
- It was a desperately difficult year for a swathe of the city’s sporting bodies
- The main hope is that the damage 2020 inflicted on the local scene isn’t fatal
Spare a thought – but only if you have plenty to spare, for there have been far more sizeable concerns – for the sports writer in 2020. Again, so long as you can spare one more, perhaps offer one specifically to a Hong Kong-based sports writer since 2019.
It’s been another terribly dreary year, professionally,to add to the quite grim one the previous year.
Consider arguably the city’s most dynamic sporting scene, outside racing, which has had a mildly taxing year at worst in comparison to other sporting bodies – Hong Kong’s outdoor and extreme sports community.
By the grace of nature, Hongkongers are gifted with a wonderfully agreeable climate, stunning scenery and vast bodies of competition-ready water. The O&E calendar has enjoyed a boom in recent years and there are more events and more top competitors coming to Hong Kong every season. Well, there were.
