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Olympics 2024: getting more athletes to Paris is Hong Kong’s top priority as new supremo stresses qualifying race
- City’s hopefuls must clinch places at the Games before there can be any talk of medal targets, Hong Kong Sports Institute’s new CEO Tony Choi says
- Choi also stresses need to manage expectations after Hong Kong brought home its best Olympic haul of six medals in 2021
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The new head of the Hong Kong Sports Institute has set the goal of ensuring as many of the city’s athletes as possible can qualify for this year’s Olympic Games, as he revealed his vision for the publicly funded body.
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Tony Choi Yuk-kwan, the new chief executive at the institute (HKSI), on Wednesday outlined three pressing items for his in-tray as the teams and individuals in his remit set their sights on the 2024 Games in Paris.
Along with preparations for France, Choi will oversee an expansion of facilities this year for three sports, and the allocation of greater resources for sports medicine.
“There are quite a few challenges coming up this year, the biggest of which is qualification for the Paris Olympics, because most of the sports are still in the qualification stage,” Choi said as he met the media for the first time since officially taking over the top job on January 1.
The current target for Paris was simply to get there. Only after that, Choi said, would the focus turn to whether Hong Kong could aspire to anything in the region of its best Olympic haul of six medals, achieved in 2021.
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