Category — Hong Kong

Here’s a photo of Alex Fong Lik-Sun, the swimmer turned actor/singer we blogged about yesterday. Watch his music video here in case you missed it.

Is he angry at someone? Maybe he’s shouting at pro-Tibet demonstrators? Nah! Maybe he’s just over excited. After all, not everyone is given the honor to carry the torch like the former Olympians from Malaysia and India who were, unfortunately, snubbed by their sports officials.

Who says Olympic athletes can’t be successful singers? Certainly not Hong Kong swimmer now turned singer/actor Alex Fong Lik-Sun. Here’s a music video of Alex and another Hong Kong star, Natalie Tong.

Alex also known as “Little Flying Fish” for his swimming achievements represented Hong Kong during the Sydney 2000 Olympics. He will be a torch bearer when the Olympic Torch makes its Hong Kong round tomorrow, May 2.

Do we really need a study to tell us that richer countries win more Olympic medals? My mom will tell you that such a study is a waste of resources because the answer will obviously be, “Of course richer countries win more Olympic medals.”

Now, the good folks at the Lingnan University in Hongkong obviously disagree with my mom (re: the usefulness of such study) so they set out to do an “econometric analysis of the Olympic Games“. They whipped out their calculators, pored over Olympic medal records, examined the different countries’ material wealth, did their statistical analysis thing, and came up with the following conclusion:

The results of the study show that population and income do indeed have a substantial effect on the number of Olympic medals won.

There’s really no need to translate that but we will “translate” it anyways because we want to, here it goes: “Richer countries with more people win more Olympic medals.”

So maybe my mom only got it half right. Not all rich countries win more medals. They also have to have more human resources, i.e., athletes, competing for them.

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