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9 September, 2024
Four Trails director Robin Lee rests against a post box by the Mui Wo Ferry Pier in a still from the documentary about the 2021 Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge. Photo: Edko Films
Asian cinema: Hong Kong film

How filming 298km Hong Kong ultra run was almost as hard as competing

Director talks about the stress of making the Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge documentary and telling its runners’ stories.

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Health & Fitness

Are weight loss camps the answer to China's obesity crisis?

Hong Kong economy

Cashing in on fitness: how Hyrox race is opening doors for Hong Kong businesses

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Hong Kong sports

A taste of training for Hyrox in Hong Kong

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Fame and celebrity

8 celebrities who run marathons, from Oprah and Diplo to Pippa Middleton

From Kate Middleton’s sister Pippa to Ethan Hawke and ultrafit Gordon Ramsay, these are the celebs who committed to the cause and completed a full marathon …

Nepal

Nepal record-setting teen climber returns home to hero’s welcome

The 18-year-old, who has scaled the world’s 14 highest peaks, said Sherpas ‘are not just guides, we are trailblazers’.

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Nepal

At just 18, he’s already climbed all the highest peaks on Earth

Nepali teen Nima Rinji Sherpa is no stranger to the world’s high places, hailing from a family of record-holding mountaineers.

Nepali climber Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, atop Mount Makalu in May. Photo: Instagram/nimasherpa_official
Marathons

Hong Kong bridge half-marathon returns, bosses address food, water, delay issues

Second edition to be held in January, and race chief says improvements have been made since the first race.

Finland

F1 star Bottas among those embracing fast-growing sport of gravel riding

Thirty-four cyclists competed in the first edition of Dirty Kanza in 2006 – this year 5,000 riders started the race, now renamed Unbound Gravel, with many more left out.

Japan

Britain laces up for a Japan-style 116km relay race as the emperor visits

The inaugural UK ‘ekiden’ will mark the 100th anniversary of Japan’s storied long-distance relay to coincide with the royal couple’s visit.

Runners set off on the first day of the Tokyo-Hakone ekiden in 2020. The 219km (136-mile) race celebrated its 100th anniversary this year. Photo: Kyodo
Climbing and mountaineering

Nepal’s ‘Everest man’ reaches peak for record 30th time

Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, first scaled Everest in 1994 when working for a commercial expedition. He has since climbed the mountain almost every year.

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Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa gestures to the crowd upon arriving at the Tribhuvan airport in Kathmandu on May 25 last year. Photo: AFP
Nepal

Everest is a dirty, trash-strewn mess. Is it too late for Nepal to fix it?

Thousands of tonnes of waste have been left on the world’s highest mountain over the years. Some working on the clean-up say the only way to stop more piling up is putting curbs on expeditions.

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Nepal

Nepal’s ‘Everest Man’ notches record 29th summit of world’s highest mountain

Kami Rita Sherpa first reached the top of Mount Everest in 1994. Since then he has climbed the 8,849-metre peak almost every year, guiding clients.

Hong Kong athlete who broke record for ‘planet’s hardest triathlon’ eyes bigger goal

Hong Kong lawyer Mayank Vaid once held the record for the Enduroman Arch 2 Arc and in August will become the first person to attempt double that race.

Mayank Vaid will become the first athlete to attempt the Double Arch 2 Arc Triathlon. Photo: Maxime Vanhollebeke
Lunar

How Hong Kong entrepreneur Vriko Kwok went Further than she had ever been

The Brazilian jiu jitsu athlete went from 0 303.313km in under a year at the Lululemon challenge to prove wrong those who thought it was beyond her.

Hong Kong’s Vriko Kwok at Further, which backed 10 female athletes from around the world to run their farthest distance over six days. Photo: Lululemon
Trail running and hiking

Nepal racer wins by smallest of margins, edges out China’s Xiang Fuzhao

Sunmaya Budha says ‘thinking about past is not enough for me’ as she rises from rural Nepal to ultra stardom, and wants to continue to support her family.

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Wellness

If exercise helps depression more than counselling, this woman is living proof

A study finds that physical activity is more effective than counselling or leading medications for improving depression, anxiety and distress symptoms – as shown by a runner who says it saved her life.

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Antarctica

How to get to South Pole? 1 record-breaking woman started by googling it

Preet Chandi, appearing in Hong Kong on International Women’s Day, reveals how being told to get married and conform to expectations ‘lit a fire’ in her and fuelled her three Antarctic expeditions.

Preet Chandi undertook a trio of epic Antarctic expeditions in the space of two years. Photo: Instagram/@polarpreet
Wellness

Only 2 women finished this year’s Hong Kong ultra trail race. Meet the first

Lawyer Alice McLeod was the first woman to cross the finish line of this year’s 298-kilometre Hong Kong Four Trails Ultra Challenge – here’s how she planned and trained for the incredible feat.

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Triathlete Cheng sets 2024 goals after ‘empowering’ Ironman World Championship

Ruby Cheng is chasing more competitive highs in 2024, after a stellar performance at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, where she relived her Olympian mum’s swimming success

Trail running and hiking

From talking to monkeys to finding inner peace on Hong Kong’s four trails

Tsang Wai-fung gets used to running without headphones but first experiences highs and lows of solitary adventure that takes runners 298km across the city.

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Tsang Wai-fung is preparing for the HK4TUC. Photo: Handout
Trail running and hiking

Hong Kong triathletes stall in Olympic hunt after paying for ‘brutal’ schedule

Jason Ng and Bailee Brown miss chance to gain ground over Paris 2024 qualification rivals at the season-ending Asia Triathlon Cup in mainland China.

Bailee Brown ran the third fastest leg in Xiamen, but a disappointing swim ruined her podium chances. Photo: Xinhua
Marathons

Hong Kong half marathon chiefs sorry as cracks appear in ‘perfect’ bridge race

Runners complain about lack of food, delays and drink and toilet shortages, while HKAAA offers ‘sincere apologies’ for finish line error and says the event’s bridge location ‘raised difficulties’.

Marathons

8,000 run ‘perfect’ inaugural Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge Half Marathon

Actor Chow Yun-fat steals the show at Sunday morning’s event, as organisers tout success but also target improvements for next year.

Marathons

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge half marathon organisers target annual event

Sunday’s inaugural event will see 8,000 runners traversing 55km bridge, with athletics hoping ‘more distances and quotas become available too’.

An aerial view of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. Photo: Winson Wong
Triathlon

Triathlon boss blames Coggins’ struggles on pandemic, ‘partly down to me’

Hong Kong triathlon officials investigating effects of Covid-19 vaccine on the 24-year-old with blood tests – ‘in the past two years when he got sick, it really whacked him’.

Coggins became Hong Kong’s leading Olympic triathlete after finishing 33rd at the Tokyo Games. Photo: Xinhua
Triathlon

Hong Kong head coach hails triathlon chance, ‘we need depth and accountability’

The head coach of Hong Kong Triathlon says the forthcoming Asia Triathlon Cup in Central has the potential to deliver immediate and far-reaching gains for the sport in the city.

Breakdancers bring a dramatic ending to Hong Kong tournament

The four breakers who competed for the city at the Asian Games all reach their finals at the Hong Kong Breaking Team Qualifier.

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