Squash faces battle to be included in 2025 National Games
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Hong Kong Squash is trying to include their sport at the 2025 National Games but know they face an uphill battle to gain acceptance.
The city will co-host China’s sporting showpiece with Guangdong and Macau in four years’ time and Hong Kong Squash wants to part of the programme, given the sport’s outstanding record at Asian Games and other championships.
At the association’s 60th anniversary celebration held at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai on Wednesday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, who was a guest of honour at the ceremony, said she had received the request to make squash a medal sport at the National Games. But she told squash officials that it would be hard to pull off after consulting the Home Affairs Bureau.
Most of the National Games medal programme follows the Olympic Games criteria, but unfortunately squash is still not part of the Olympic Games despite trying for more than two decades.
However, Hong Kong Squash chairman Duncan Chiu said he would continue to press ahead to have the sport included at the National Games.
