A day after organising committee says it will ‘study optimisation of criteria’, the rules are relaxed to allow more teams to take part
A Hong Kong government department has backed down on its decision to deny several of the city’s sports teams the chance to compete at the National Games, and has lowered the bar to allow more to do so.
The city’s organising committee, under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, was behind the ruling that only sports whose teams finished in the top eight at last year’s Paris Olympics or the Asian Games in 2023 could enter multiple sides in National Games team events.
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