Posted on 03/21/2022 1:39:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Competitive swimmer Jody Lee’s goal is to compete at the Paris Olympics in 2024, but with only two years left to qualify, Hong Kong’s months-long shutdown of swimming pools is making achieving his dream tougher.
Pools and all other sports facilities, including tennis courts, golf courses and gyms, have been shut since January – and for more than 13 months total since the start of the pandemic in 2020.
Lee, 15, has been trying to keep fit by training in the ocean, braving red tides and currents, but the city closed beaches on Thursday (Mar 17), making it even harder to swim. “I have no idea where my swimming level is ... Things will get especially hard for me in terms of trying to qualify for the Olympics.”
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Get on the UPenn team.
HK has obviously nonsensical Covid19 restrictions like, like restaurants must close at 6 PM.
Here is the Youtube channel Trump supporter in HK. He is really funny (If you can understand Cantonese). But the video he posts of the streets and locations is amazing. The streets look like something out of a dystopian movie.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2e0nnjjYKAtWI5LiZpFhtA
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