Boccia player King Tse Tak-wah, who won gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, started his journey in the sport as a teenager two decades ago. “I came across boccia at school and initially, I approached it with a casual mindset and didn’t have particularly strong feelings about it,” he says. When he was selected to represent his school during an inter-school competition, however, Tse says he began to “slowly realise the game was quite challenging”.
“I developed a strong desire to defeat my opponents; whenever I scored a point or won a match, I felt a tremendous sense of success and accomplishment. That’s what motivated me to continue pursuing this sport.”
The athlete recalls that, standing atop the podium in Paris, he felt more than 20 years of persistence had…
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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024