CE participates in Sport For All Day 2025 (with photos/video)
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The Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, this afternoon (August 3) went to activities at the Kowloon Park Sports Centre primary place of the Sport For All Day (SFAD) 2025 held by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), communicating to the general public the advantages of routine workout for physical and psychological wellness.
With Hong Kong cohosting the 15th National Games (NG), the 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities (NGD) and the 9th National Special Olympic Games (NSOG) with Guangdong Province and the Macao Special Administrative Region for the very first time, the style of SFAD 2025 is “Coalescing together for the National Games”The LCSD arranged a series of totally free leisure and sports programs at designated sports centres, with a concentrate on promoting numerous occasions of the 15th NG, the 12th NGD and the 9th NSOG, welcoming the general public to commemorate this nationwide sports extravaganza.
Accompanying Mr Lee at the occasion were the Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law; the Commissioner for Sports, Mr George Tsoi; the Director of Leisure and Cultural Services, Ms Manda Chan; the Deputy Director of Leisure and Cultural Services (Leisure Services), Miss Winnie Chui; the Chairman of the Community Sports Committee (CSC), Professor Patrick Yung; the Vice Chairman of the CSC, Mr Eric Fok; the Gold Medalist in the Women’s Épée Individual occasion at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Miss Vivian Kong; and the three-time Gold Medalist in the Men’s Individual Road race at the Asian Games and National Games, Mr Wong Kam-po.
The visitors took pleasure in the cheerleading and breaking efficiencies, and signed up with rugby, virtual fencing, virtual triathlon, golf, virtual karting video games, in addition to table tennis enjoyable activities for individuals with various capabilities. They likewise checked out the video games cubicle of the Festival of Sport arranged by the Sports Federation & & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China (SF&OC).
Sixteen Principal Officials likewise supported SFAD 2025 by signing up with the entertainment and sports activities held at the sports centres in different districts. They were the Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Chan Kwok-ki; the Financial Secretary, Mr Paul Chan; the Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration, Mr Cheuk Wing-hing; the Deputy Secretary for Justice, Dr Cheung Kwok-kwan; the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Erick Tsang Kwok-wai; the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr Christopher Hui; the Secretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung; the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Mr Algernon Yau; the Secretary for Health, Professor Lo Chung-mau; the Secretary for Development, Ms Bernadette Linn; the Secretary for Education, Dr Choi Yuk-lin; the Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice Mak; the Secretary for Transport and Logistics, Ms Mable Chan; the Acting Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Ho Kai-ming; the Acting Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Ms Lillian Cheong; and the Acting Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Miss Diane Wong, delighting in the enjoyable of sports and inviting the National Games together with members of the general public.
The LCSD arranges SFAD every August. This year, apart from the complimentary entertainment and sports programs at the Kowloon Park Sports Centre primary location and designated LCSD sports centres throughout the 18 districts, a variety of the LCSD’s fee-charging centers were open for usage by members of the general public complimentary of charge. Supporting the occasion, the SF&OC today held the “Sport for All Experience Day” at GO PARK Sai Sha, where the LCSD established an SFAD activity cubicle to promote the enjoyable of routine workout. A variety of organisations likewise opened their location centers or introduced leisure and sports programs totally free public usage today.
SFAD 2025 was co-organised by the SF&OC, the China Hong Kong Paralympic Committee, the Department of Health, the Sports Medicine Team of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Sports Medicine and Health Science Alumni Association of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Physical Fitness Association of Hong Kong, China.