Hong Kong sports boss Lam Tai-fai says elite athletes in city need more cash, at ceremony for new HK$1 billion facility


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A Hong Kong sports official said the government would be to blame if the city’s athletes failed to build on their Tokyo Olympic success, at a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a new HK$1.04 billion facility funded by taxpayers. Lam Tai-fai, chairman of the Hong Kong Sports Institute, also called for a new facility to be built in the New Territories and said the government should pay for the broadcasting rights to the Asian Games and the 2024 Paris Olympics. The local government pumps hundreds of millions of dollars into elite sport in the city every year, and...