Chinese AST event banishes Hong Kong skaters
Thursday April 24, 2008
Warren from Hong Kong X Fed & Hkskateboarding.com recently told us about the recent AST Skateboard contest in China.
"The organizers of AST here in Guangzhou China changed the rules on the fly to exclude Hong Kong Skaters from ever getting a chance to get any prize or go to Beijing, meaning they excluded them from even the slightest chance of trying for the prize of Woodward for training. As you can see from the video footage, they allowed Hong Kong skaters to 'participate' & skate in the contest, but they were exempt from any placings at all."This has become quite a scandal in Hong Kong, and the organizers later issued a statement on Skatehere.com saying their decision to change the rules was because Hong Kong is a separate region and to give mainland Chinese skaters more opportunity to go to the US to train since Hong Kong skaters were so good already.
So, it's like being complimented while being kicked in the face. It's weird the things that China gets away with. Can you imagine that in the US, or ... anywhere else? If we had a skate competition in the States, but said no Californians could win? They could enter, but no winning!
Comments
That is really stupid, and very unjust. That is NOT cool. Hong Kong skaters should have just as much of a chance to win it as any other skaters! Like it was said, what would you think about a skate contest in the States where Californians could enter, but not win?
we’re talking about China here. They confiscated bibles from religious Christians, so they probably see Hong Kong-ites as inferior or something.
this is very dumb.people from hong-kong,as said before,should be able to win.