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Josh Ball

Three years ago, Adrian Yung Hau-tsuen was feeling on top of the world.
The first male skier from Hong Kong to qualify for a Winter Olympics, the then 17-year-old headed to Beijing full of the optimism of youth and with a determination to give it “120 per cent against the world’s best”.
Things did not turn out exactly as planned.
Yung crashed out of both the giant slalom and slalom, and after his first run in the former admitted to lacking confidence and struggling to control his nerves.
The slalom was little better, with Yung missing a gate early and confessing to being “a little bit devastated”. In the tough conditions, the Hongkonger was one of 36 in a field of 88 skiers who did not make it to the bottom.
Next month, Yung will be representing Hong Kong again at a major international competition, when the Asian Winter Games get under way in Harbin, and he has spent the intervening years working on improving every aspect of his skiing.

“I’m feeling a lot more confident,” Yung said. “The Beijing Winter Olympics was quite a special case. At that time I was 17 years old and quite an immature kid, who thought he was above the whole world.
“That was a very eye-opening experience, and I’ve learned a lot from it. I’ve spent the past few years just building on top of that, improving myself over and over again to hopefully make it to 2026 Winter Olympics.”
Qualification will be slightly tougher than it was last time out. When Yung met the minimum standard in 2021, he needed to have an average points total of less than 160 when his best five results were taken into account.
This time around, the target has been lowered to 120, and a good performance in Harbin would go a long way to achieving that.
“That is my main goal now,” he said. “And with what I have learned, with all the training I have done, and all the time I’ve spent, and the hard effort and hard work, I’m hoping to do that with a good showing at the Asian [Winter] Games.”
While Yung and his teammates in the eight-strong skiing squad prepare for next month’s Games, Ryan Wong King-ho and Charlotte Ip have been representing the city at the FISU World University Winter Games in Torino.
The pair took on some of their peers in the men and women’s giant slalom and slalom, with Wong posting finishes of 80th and 44th in races won by Spain’s Aleix Aubert Serracanta and Japan’s Takayuki Koyama.
Ip was 63rd in her giant slalom and 52nd in the slalom, with Switzerland’s Sue Piller taking gold in both events.

Hong Kong also sent four athletes to compete in the speed skating, which was dominated once again by South Korea, although China’s Hao Weiying won her country’s first medal of the multi-sport event in the short-track women’s 500m on Wednesday.
Hao took silver in a time of 44.825 seconds, just 0.108 seconds behind South Korea’s Kim Gil-li. Another South Korean skater, Seo Whi-min, claimed the bronze.
China took another silver in the mixed-team relay, finishing in 2:44.631 just behind South Korea, who claimed gold in 2:44.042. Kazakhstan claimed the bronze.
South Korea’s Kim Tae-sung and Lee Dong-hyun added to their medal tally in the men’s 500m – winning gold and bronze, respectively. Japan’s Shogo Miyata finished in second place.
The team has dominated the event, winning all five short-track competitions and finishing their Torino 2025 campaign with five gold, two silver and four bronze medals.


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