Covid-threatened Asian Games offer lure of gold for Hong Kong’s Grace Lau as she ends bronze age ChinaPulse.com China News, Data, Media Intelligence and Insights


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Hong Kong karate star Grace Lau Mo-sheung narrowly lost out to her Japanese rival Kiyou Shimizu on Sunday in what could be a dress rehearsal for this year’s Asian Games – if they go ahead. Lau put aside talk of the Games in Hangzhou being postponed until next year because of China’s Covid-19 outbreak, saying she had “no fear” about that prospect, after finishing second in the WKF Karate 1 Premier League in Portugal. But an old nemesis took top spot and promises to remain in her path in Hangzhou. Shimizu won gold at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta,...