{"id":107831,"date":"2016-12-15T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.symedialab.org.hk\/talk\/?p=107831"},"modified":"2016-12-15T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T00:47:22","slug":"lets-walk-talk-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/lets-walk-talk-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s walk the talk of sports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Kimberly Choi, Phoebe Chow, Wing Chan, Kannas Wu \u2013<\/p>\n

The Hong Kong crowd reacted with \u201cwow\u201d, followed by disbelief, when Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying stirred up another controversy two years ago. That time it was about two unlikely areas, namely sports and religion. He said the two sectors did not make much economic contribution. Fast forward to 2016, the debate is still inconclusive.<\/p>\n

Why? Because, sadly, Leung has spoken the minds of certain parts of the society, who shared the view sports have offered little to GDP. And sports does not matter a lot to them.<\/p>\n

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  By Kimberly Choi, Phoebe Chow, Wing Chan, Kannas Wu \u2013 The Hong Kong crowd reacted with \u201cwow\u201d, followed by disbelief, when Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying stirred up another controversy two years ago. That time it was about two unlikely areas, namely sports and religion. He said the two sectors did not make much economic contribution….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1631,"featured_media":37464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17613,8,6855],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/044.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaypJ-s3d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105997,"url":"https:\/\/www.symedialab.com\/talk\/no-message-message-xi-leung-meeting\/","url_meta":{"origin":107831,"position":0},"title":"No Message The Message From Xi-Leung Meeting","author":"Chris Yeung","date":"November 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Chris Yeung - With his annual pilgrimage, or duty visit in official rhetoric, to Beijing just one month to go, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying cannot wait to report to his boss the state of Hong Kong under his reign. 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