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Cheung King Wai is a Hong Kong former professional racing cyclist, who won a gold medal at the 2006 Asian Games in the points race. Cheung currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team HKSI Pro Cycling Team.
The pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp, pro-government camp or pro-China camp refers to a political alignment in Hong Kong which generally supports the policies of the Beijing central government towards Hong Kong. The term "pro-establishment camp" is regularly in use to label the broader segment of the Hong Kong political arena which has the closer relationship with the establishment, namely the Government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). It is also portrayed as the "Patriotic Front" by the pro-Beijing media and sometimes portrayed as "loyalists" by the rival pro-democracy camp.
Hong Kong independence movement is a political movement that advocates Hong Kong to be established as an independent sovereign city-state. Hong Kong is one of two Special administrative regions of China (SAR) which enjoys a high degree of autonomy as a part of China, which is guaranteed under Article 2 of Hong Kong Basic Law as ratified under the Sino-British Joint Declaration. Since the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the PRC in 1997, a number of Hongkongers have become concerned about Beijing's encroachment on the territory's freedoms and the failure of the Hong Kong government to deliver what they believe is "genuine democracy".
Kwok Ho-Ting Marco is a Hong Kong former professional cyclist. On 24 March 2011, he stunned a quality field to win the gold medal in the scratch race at the 2011 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Kwok beat Italy's Elia Viviani to second place, with Morgan Kneisky of France taking third.
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Leung Bo Yee is a Hong Kong road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team China Liv Pro Cycling. She represented her nation at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Meng Zhaojuan is a road and track cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Women's Continental Team China Liv Pro Cycling. Representing Hong Kong, Meng competed at the 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Meng was born in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, China, and moved to Hong Kong in 2006.
Pang Yao is a Hong Kong road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team China Liv Pro Cycling. She represented her nation as a junior on the road at the 2012 and 2013 UCI Road World Championships and at the track at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Cheung King Lok is a Hong Kong professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team HKSI Pro Cycling Team. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He competed in the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games and won several medals. He joined Orica–GreenEDGE as a neo-pro in mid-2016, remaining with the team until the end of 2017, before returning to UCI Continental level with HKSI Pro Cycling Team.
HKSI Pro Cycling Team is a Hong Kong-based UCI Continental cycling team established in 2014, based at the Hong Kong Sports Institute.
The 2019 Hong Kong District Council elections were held on 24 November 2019 for all 18 District Councils of Hong Kong. 452 seats from all directly elected constituencies, out of the 479 seats in total, were contested. Nearly three million people voted, equivalent to 71 per cent of registered voters, an unprecedented turnout in the electoral history of Hong Kong. The election was widely viewed as a de facto referendum on the ongoing pro-democracy protests.
The Hong Kong Challenge was a one-day professional cycling race held annually in Hong Kong since 2017. It was part of UCI Asia Tour in category 1.1.
The 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, also known as the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement, were triggered by the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill by the Hong Kong government. The bill would have allowed extradition to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong did not have extradition agreements, including mainland China and Taiwan. This led to concerns that Hong Kong residents and visitors would be exposed to the legal system of mainland China, thereby undermining Hong Kong's autonomy and infringing civil liberties. It set off a chain of protest actions that began with a sit-in at the government headquarters on 15 March 2019, a demonstration attended by hundreds of thousands on 9 June 2019, followed by a gathering outside the Legislative Council Complex to stall the bill's second reading on 12 June which escalated into violence that caught the world's attention.
The Hong Kong National Road Championships are held annually to decide the cycling champions in both the road race and time trial discipline, across various categories.
Events in the year 2020 in Hong Kong.
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- ↑ "Hong Kong Pro Cycling". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
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