RTHK: Glamour of Sport - The Olympic Dream

By RTHK.HKSports

RTHK: Glamour of Sport - The Olympic Dream episodes

July 23, 2012 Quest for Medals
In the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, the International Paralympics Committee decided to suspend events for mentally challenged athletes. Those events will be re-introduced in the 2012 London Paralympics, a significant turn of events to the swimming team und...
22 min
July 23, 2012 Touchdown for Hong Kong
In a 2009 meeting attended by all its members, the International Olympic Committee decided to include rugby in its official list of sports for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. In recent years, rugby has enjoyed increasing popularity in Hong Kong while lo...
22 min
July 23, 2012 Lock and Load
Li Huifen has been coaching the Hong Kong Table Tennis Women’s Team since 1998. In recent years, impending retirement of senior members has put the team in a difficult stage of transition. Coach Li recalled how her suggestion a couple of years ago to p...
22 min
July 23, 2012 The Past 60 Years
In the history of the Olympic Games, Hong Kong is the only non-sovereign region to qualify for membership in the International Olympic Committee. Hong Kong first competed in the Games with an independent status when it dispatched a team of 4 swimmers t...
22 min

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The 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London as an effort to pass on the Olympic spirit.