‘I’m not perfect,’ says Hong Kong’s Vivian Kong as she tearfully recalls Olympic stress as world’s No 1
- Fencer says she has her flaws as she tearfully tells students about pressure she faced at Paris Olympics
The 30-year-old épéeist cried while recalling the stress she came under during the Games, and said she was also learning how to be a “grown up and working adult” with her new job as an assistant external affairs manager at the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
Asked by a student how she handled the pressure and motivated herself, Kong choked up and said: “I was playing as the No 1 in the world, so I could not lose. I should not lose.”
Kong said that because she was the top seed in Paris, the Games were her most stressful moment in the past two years.
She was speaking during a visit to Hangzhou Chenjinglun Sports School, part of a five-day study tour for Hong Kong students organised by the Jockey Club under the government’s “Strive and Rise” mentoring programme.
Kong, who was sharing her fencing journey with a group of 80 students, struggled to maintain her composure when answering questions from Hong Kong and mainland Chinese media and became emotional several times throughout the session.
