Tokyo Games: Cheuk Ming-ho breaks Hong Kong record but still fails to obtain direct entry for Olympics


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Cheuk Ming-ho saved his best for last by bettering his own Hong Kong record again in the men’s 200 metres freestyle but the result was still not good enough to send him straight to next month’s Olympic Games. In the last qualification race for Hong Kong swimmers for Tokyo, the 19-year-old prodigy clocked one minute and 47.46 seconds in the Division 1 Long Course competition at the Victoria Park swimming pool, the third time he set a Hong Kong record in the event since March. However, the 1:47.02 Olympic A qualification time, which would have been good enough to make...