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Lars Hamer

@larshamer.bsky.social
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Sports reporter for the South China Morning Post, specialising in mainland and Hong Kong affairs. Views are my own. www.scmp.com/author/lars-hamer

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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Barcelona have signed a deal to come to Hong Kong, but Kai Tak Sports Park are locked in a public spat with the organiser, leading the event up in the air FC Barcelona ‘signed’ to play in Hong Kong – but ‘unsent email’ row pauses talks www.scmp.com/sport/hong-k...
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FC Barcelona ‘signed’ to play in Hong Kong – but ‘unsent email’ row pauses talks
Organiser disputes Kai Tak Sports Park’s version of events after reports that application form was not returned.
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Lorenzo Sonego is a class act
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Another Hong Kong “mega event” turns out to be a massive flop. Real Madrid fans who paid thousands to meet players furious after event goes wrong www.scmp.com/sport/footba... Get instant updates with the SCMP app. Download now: scmp.onelink.me/3586748601/d...
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Real Madrid fans who paid thousands to meet players furious after event goes wrong
Supporters who coughed up HK$7,000 each to meet their heroes left angry and disappointed after being stopped from doing so.
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John Carpenter's dEF0G 🌁 @defrog.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The more GovHK press releases I read, the more I'm convinced no one at info.gov.hk actually knows what "so called" means or how to use it in a sentence. Also, I want to hear a bombastic Shakespearian actor read these out loud because it would be hilarious.
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Aaron Busch @tripperhead.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🇭🇰 🏊 🏊‍♂️ 🏊‍♀️ The 17th World Aquatics Swimming Championships begin today in Budapest, with Hong Kong sending a 15-person contingent to the short-course world event. 200m freestyle short-course world record holder Siobhán Haughey will focus on the 100m and 200m free.
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Haughey backed to break own records at World Swimming Championships
Siobhan Haughey leads a 15-strong Hong Kong team to the event in Budapest, with her sights set on making more history.
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I thought I escaped these god awful karaoke live streamers when I left the mainland but they’ve cropped up on Victoria harbour
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
FIFA rejected the Chinese Football Associations initial attempt to ban South Korean footballer Son Jun-ho for life due to match fixing and bribery allegations due to “insufficient evidence”, according to his former club. www.scmp.com/sport/china/...
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Fifa rejects CFA life ban on South Korea’s Son, club boss calls China ‘unstable’
Son Jun-ho was detained in China for 10 months ‘on suspicion of accepting bribes’ and was one of 43 people banned.
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SCMP Sport @scmp-sport.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A new code of governance has set out three major areas where Hong Kong’s National Sports Associations need to improve by 2026 | @larshamer.bsky.social shorturl.at/YHaOR
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Hong Kong sports bodies have 2 years to fall into line or risk losing funding
New code of governance sets out three major areas where the city’s National Sports Associations need to improve by 2026.
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hong Kong is currently going through one of its 10 days a year where I can wear a nice jacket and trousers. Shame about the torrential rain though
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hong Kong football fans braved the rain and queued down the street to get their copy of the Hong Kong jersey that has garnered a cult like status among supporters.
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A sad day for Hong Kong
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Chloe Lo @chloeclo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
#HongKong: All 45 democrats were sentenced to 4-10 years for fighting for freedom. While police in HK who raped child only sentenced to 46 months.
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David Owens @drdowens.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
3 reasons why this policy makes no sense 1) Banning surfing will increase fatalities on HK beaches 2) HK is trying to establish itself as a hub for sports/ sports medicine 3) HK is a stunning location for outdour sports 🧵 1/4
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hundreds of runners at last week's #TransLantau event went without water, and many more complained of poor organisation and ‘having to fend for themselves’ during a typhoon. Organisers told me it was because of “misunderstanding” and “miscommunication”. www.scmp.com/sport/hong-k...
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Hong Kong TransLantau by UTMB trail run organisers apologise after complaints
Hundreds of runners in the 50km event went without water, while many slam poor organisation, ‘having to fend for themselves’ during typhoon.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as
"Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator.
"The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 18/11/2024
Hong Kong’s Leisure & Cultural Services Department doubled down and said it would not allowing surfing at public beaches “because they think there will be complaints from the public,” said Adrian Pedro Ho of the New People’s Party www.scmp.com/sport/other-...
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Exclusive | Hong Kong officials double down on surfing ban, refuse to discuss change in law
Lawmaker Adrian Pedro Ho had requested meeting in hope of changing government’s mind, but instead was told officials would not budge.
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Lars Hamer @larshamer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My first (and maybe only?) post on Bluesky is the exclusive I dropped this morning. "The #HongKong government has effectively ruled out ever competing in #surfing at the #Olympics by doubling down on banning the sport at any public beaches in the city." #surfingban www.scmp.com/sport/other-...
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Exclusive | Hong Kong officials double down on surfing ban, refuse to discuss change in law
Lawmaker Adrian Pedro Ho had requested meeting in hope of changing government’s mind, but instead was told officials would not budge.
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