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JAN/FEB 2022
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SAILABILITY
MINDSET IS KEY FOR SAILING 心態是航行的關鍵
By Andrew Sheard, Club Member and Sailability Volunteer
In November, World Sailing launched a global campaign to get sailing back into the Paralympic Games in LA 2028. Sailing was included in the Games up to 2016 but it was then dropped for Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and the sport is driving hard for greater numbers and diversity of participants. Here in Hong Kong, Rex is 20 years old and an all-round sportsman.
去年11月，世界帆船運動總會針對帆 船運動開展宣傳活動，旨在讓帆船 運動重返2028年洛杉磯殘奧會。帆
In summer 2019, as he finished secondary school, Rex went with a group of friends on a beach holiday to Thailand, as many of us have. He was into sports like cycling and football and thought it would be a great idea to try surfing but tragically ended up in a Thai hospital for a week with a serious injury to his spinal cord. That was followed by a year of hospital treatment back in Hong Kong and since then he uses a wheelchair.
船運動在2016年之前一直被列入奧 運會項目，但在2020年東京奧運會 和2024年巴黎奧運會中卻不見其身 影。世界各地的帆船運動愛好者正 在努力提高參與者的人數，讓更多 不同背景和文化的人參與其中。 在香港，因帆船運動而改變人生的 故事不算罕見。20歲的Rex是一名全 能運動員，在2019年的夏天從中學 畢業後，與一群朋友去泰國度假。
Keen to continue with his sporting skills, Rex started playing wheelchair basketball and at one of these games in early 2021 a friend invited him to try sailing. He now attends Sailability for sailing training on Sundays with coach Paul. He enjoys sailing because “it’s relaxing, you can just chill out, and it’s also exciting, especially when the wind is strong, I like experiencing that feeling of speed when moving across the water.” In the future he would like to take part in more competitive sailing races.
他個人非常喜歡運動，自己會騎單 車和踢足球，到了泰國也試過衝 浪，但不幸的是，他的脊髓因這一 次意外嚴重受傷，在泰國醫院住了 一個星期。之後，又回到香港接受 了一年的治療，從那以後，他的生 活便離不開輪椅。 Rex渴望繼續他的運動生涯，開始 接觸輪椅籃球。在2021年初的一 場輪椅籃球比賽中，朋友向他介紹 帆船運動，從此他便和帆船運動結 下不解之緣。現在，他定期和教練
In 2020 Rex started a degree course at Baptist University in Journalism. He said “Baptist U does a lot for people with special needs, including wheelchair access, and it’s good that the lecturers just treat me like any other student.”
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Paul參加週日的帆船訓練，毫無疑 問他非常享受帆船運動，「這項運 動讓人心情很放鬆，亦令人興奮， 尤其是在風很大的時候，我喜歡在 水中移迅速移動的感覺。」Rex分 享道。
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