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Members and Web Site visitors,
Television and sports were made for each other. The advent of that technology has been a boon to athletes and their fans for the past half a century. So too is the Internet over the past half decade during which hundreds of millions could tap into a rich reservoir of instant information with a single click.
The Internet enables us to become not only a local unit but also a national, regional and global fraternity, fostering in the process a sense of shared identity that is constantly being reinforced through competition and also education. Many Olympic Committees have their own sites and furnished us, the novices, with fine models. We shall emulate and we shall improve on their examples, bringing to our page a quality that is distinctly Hong Kong - indeed a cachet.
In my extensive travels to promote sports, and our organization, I have found many of my overseas colleagues and journalists deeply interested in our city's sports development and flustered by a dearth of news. We must fill that gap and invite the curious and inquisitive to contact us so that we can tell them a lot more.
Our own citizens too could reach us through this site, to browse for facts, acquire contacts, and chat. We hope that, in time, the page shall be an indispensable digest of knowledge and a frequent stopover for those so keen to participate, whether in the pool, on the field, and in cyber space.
Beijing will host the Summer Olympics six years from now. During this exciting period, with the world's focus on our nation, it is imperative that we in Hong Kong project a more dynamic and conspicuous profile. The page shall be our badge of honor, our digital signature, our sign of welcome, and also our form of advertisement that touts our talents, our aspirations, our perpetual progress, and our desire to become an event center just as ours is a commercial one.
Yours truly,
Timothy Fok
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