How hungry are we for adventure races? and what can government do to help?

There are a lot of people out there in Hong Kong (local and expats) who are so much into the outdoor and adventure races. Yes, may be you can call them weekend warriors but the fact is that a large percentage of them are pretty serious athletes and would like to challenge themselves and see themselves improve in adventure races. But the sad fact is that there just aren't enough events in Hong Kong to cater for the needs in this particular area of interest. But we all know there is a huge potential in Hong Kong alone!!! Just look at the number of participants at all of these trail running races (AA Off Road, KOTH, MM, TW etc etc)

So, what are we going to do? Do we have to purely rely on sponsorship? Can the government actually help to promote the sport??? May be subsidise events? With the hype of the Olympics next year in Hong Kong and good old Mr Fok supporting all the other "famous" sporting events (table tennis, badminton etc.), surely he will support the so call minority sports. May be we just need some kind of adventure sports association or someone to come up with a plan and present it to him. Just a thought.


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