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South China Morning Post
23-07-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
National Games tickets to cost as little as cup of coffee, Hong Kong chief says
Hongkongers hoping to catch the action at the National Games in November can expect to pay as little as the cost of a cup of coffee or a fast-food meal for their tickets. Most of the tickets on offer for the events held in Hong Kong – expected to number more than 300,000 – will be priced at an 'affordable' level, the man overseeing the multi-sport Games has told the Post. 'Ticket prices will range from around HK$50 (US$6.35) to HK$400, or HK$500 at most, with the more expensive tiers being for the finals,' said Yeung Tak-keung, head of the city's National Games coordination office. The Games, taking place from November 9 to 21, will feature more than 400 events across 34 sports, and will be co-hosted by Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau. Yeung said prices at previous Games in China had been used as a guide, and the pricing would come in two categories. Yeung Tak-keung said more than 60 types of Games products had been made. Photo: Mike Chan 'For those sports that happen only in Hong Kong, such as rugby sevens, fencing, golf and triathlon, we have more decision-making power on pricing,' he said.
BBC News
26-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Wales scrum-half Lewis to become Lion in USA
Wales scrum-half Ffion Lewis has signed for Chicago Lions women's sevens former Bristol Bear left Wales' professional programme after being told her contract was not going to be renewed this was allowed to leave in the middle of the 2025 Women's Six Nations to protect her mental health and to pursue other opportunities in the 29-year-old hinted she was "closing the chapter" on her international career, but that she was "nowhere near done with the game".Lewis won 33 caps after making her debut in 2018, but in more recent years her career was blighted by a serious knee injury and severe symptoms of was one of a number of senior players Wales' new head coach Sean Lynn decided not to keep on, with fly-half Niamh Terry, centre Meg Webb and wing Carys Williams-Morris also becoming free agents in Lions have enjoyed success at Midwest and national in the United States.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dalton's stellar sports career dimmed by back injury
With a sporting career inspired by Cathy Freeman, fellow Olympic gold medallist and multi-sports star Chloe Dalton has been forced to retire due a back injury. Part of the champion women's sevens rugby team at the 2016 Rio Games, Dalton also played AFLW for both Carlton and GWS over seven seasons, running out for 32 games. Demonstrating her versatility and skill, she also played in the WNBL before switching her focus to rugby sevens. Requiring back surgery after an injury ended her 2024 season with the Giants, Dalton said she's failed to recover sufficiently to resume her career. "Retired. After a second back surgery nine months ago, my body hasn't bounced back to the point where I can play footy again," the 31-year-old posted on social media. "It's been a tricky process trying to come to terms with the fact that my sporting career has finished through injury." Dalton posted a series of photos and told the story of her sporting journey; how she was determined to win an Olympic gold medal after watching Freeman's triumph at the Sydney Games. When realising she wasn't good enough to make the Australian basketball team she set her sights on sevens. "I went onto Google and typed in lists of Olympic sports," Dalton wrote. "Rugby sevens would be in the Olympics for the first time in 2016. I had just 2.5 years to learn how to play rugby and secure myself a ticket on that plane to Rio. "... That seven year old girl got to stand on the podium and have her very own Olympic gold medal put around her neck." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chloe Dalton (@chloeedalton) Dalton said that she then saw AFLW on television and, although she didn't know the rules, wanted to play. Joining the Blues in 2018, she was part of Carlton's grand final team a year later. She decided to switch back to sevens to compete at the Tokyo Olympics but shattered her cheekbone four weeks out from the Games. After launching The Female Athlete Project, which is a platform to highlight the sporting achievements of women, she then resumed her AFLW career with GWS but injuries restricted her to just 16 games across four seasons. After announcing her retirement the Giants congratulated Dalton her achievements and contribution. "Chloe's impact both on and off the field for the Giants has been profound and she'll leave a lasting legacy with her teammates, coaches and staff," GWS women's football boss Alison Zell said.
South China Morning Post
03-06-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
How the Lady of the manor renovated her Cotswold property to be a home and business
In 2018, after 15 years in Hong Kong, Briton Alice Fortescue heard her ancestral roots calling when a perfect storm drew her, her husband, Robert Derry, and their two Hong Kong-born children back to the family estate, Ebrington Manor. 'The idea had always been to build a business [in Hong Kong] and sell it,' says Fortescue, who inherited the honorific 'Lady' from her father, Charles Fortescue, 8th Earl Fortescue. In fact, the couple, who moved to Hong Kong in 2003, had built two successful businesses in the events sector, selling both to the same buyer who offered Derry a job in Britain, where Fortescue could also continue her work in the rugby sevens-related events she'd started in Hong Kong. The 80-hectare grounds include a lake fed by a natural spring, a boathouse, rose gardens and an orchard. Photo: Nick Church Photography 'Rob's father was not well,' says Fortescue. 'My father was getting on as well, and he asked if we'd be interested in taking on the house.' Her parents, living in the main house at the time, would downsize into the (now renovated) old farm buildings on the estate. Having grown up in Ebrington since the age of three months, London-born Fortescue knew every inch of the three-storey Cotswold manor set on 80 hectares (of the original 800) near Chipping Campden, in Gloucestershire, southwest Britain, complete with summer house, lake house, ponds, orchards and rose gardens. 'Maintaining a house like this is hugely expensive,' says Fortescue. 'We always knew we'd have to incorporate some sort of commercial venture to make it work.'
CBC
24-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Canadian women lose Pacific Four Series rugby title to New Zealand on a tiebreaker
Winger Portia Woodman-Wickliffe entered the record books with seven tries Saturday as the New Zealand Black Ferns thumped the U.S. 79-14 to dethrone Canada as Pacific Four Series rugby champion on a tiebreaker. Second-ranked Canada and No. 3 New Zealand, who played to a dramatic 27-27 draw last Saturday, both finished with 13 points at 2-0-1. The Canadian women wrapped up play Friday with a 45-7 win over No. 6 Australia in Brisbane. Given the draw between Canada and New Zealand, the title was decided by the second tiebreaker — points differential. The Black Ferns went into the tournament finale with a points differential of plus-26, trailing Canada's plus-50. First-half hat tricks by Woodman-Wickliffe and fellow winger Katelyn Vahaakolo ended the drama quickly. Woodman-Wickliffe, 33, who has come out of international retirement after stepping away after winning her second rugby sevens gold at the Paris Olympics, added four more tries in the second half to become the Black Ferns' all-time leading try-scorer with 45. Vahaakolo finished with four tries for New Zealand, which led 34-14 at the half at North Harbour Stadium, as the Black Ferns upped their point differential to plus-91. The ninth-ranked U.S. women (0-3-0) finished fourth behind Australia (1-2-0). Canada opened tournament play with a 26-14 win over the U.S. on May 2 in Kansas City. All four Pacific Four Series teams are preparing for the World Cup, which kicks off Aug. 22 in England. The Canadians have been drawn in Pool B with No. 7 Scotland, No. 10 Wales and No. 16 Fiji. Canada could face Australia in the quarterfinals and New Zealand in the World Cup semifinal with No. 1 England, the tournament favourite, expected to be waiting in the final. Next Up Canada's next games are against No. 12 South Africa in Pretoria on July 5 and Gqeberha on July 12. Its final tune-up is Aug. 9 against No. 5 Ireland in Belfast. Canada won last year's Pacific Four Series with its first-ever victory over New Zealand, defeating the Black Ferns 22-19 in Christchurch. The Canadian women had lost all 17 meetings with New Zealand before that. Canada also won the inaugural Pacific Four Series in 2021, when the event consisted of a two-game series with the U.S. due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The Canadians finished runner-up to New Zealand in 2022 and 2023 when the competition was expanded to four teams. Canada is 12-5-1 since losing 36-0 to France in the third-place game at the last World Cup in November 2022. Four of those losses were to England, with the other to New Zealand.
