Meet the team

With an average age of 19, get to know the three athletes—one skater and two skiers—competing for Hong Kong at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics this month

AUDREY KING Age: 18 Olympic event: alpine skiing—slalom King first tried skiing as a toddler, but grew up with gymnastics as her main sport. After instructors told her parents she had promise, she joined the Hong Kong ski team aged 13, began racing a year later, and was soon taking the sport seriously, taking months out of school to train and spending Christmas breaks on the slopes. This will be a year to remember for King: as well as competing in Beijing, she will start at Harvard University in the autumn. She comes from a family of ski enthusiasts: her father, Stephen King, owns the Hong Kong ski simulation centre SkiTech, which has given homegrown skiers a place to maintain their technique while travelling to real snow slopes was off-limits. “Until Arabella competed…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2022

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