{"id":128620,"date":"2025-11-12T03:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/128620\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:21:12","slug":"hong-kong-baseball-players-struggle-and-sacrifice-rewarded-at-national-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/128620\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong baseball player\u2019s struggle and sacrifice rewarded at National Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong baseball player Egon Chan Cheuk-kiu has said the \u201chuge struggle\u201d of juggling a high-flying job with competing internationally will pay off when he steps into the National Games arena on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Chan, 31, is a senior member of a team who will begin their campaign against hosts Guangdong in Zhongshan, having used annual leave from his job as a business risk specialist with DBS to play in the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cI use all my time off for baseball and haven\u2019t travelled on holiday for about five years,\u201d Chan said. \u201cWe have two or three tournaments a year, and afterwards I often find I have no leave left. I say sorry to my family, but it\u2019s what I choose.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents have been very supportive. From when I started playing at five, they knew there would be long hours of training and tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"EgonEgon Chan watches the ball into his glove during practice. Photo: BAHKC<\/p>\n

Chan routinely works days at DBS\u2019s International Commerce Centre office in West Kowloon before hightailing across town on public transport to Lam Tin for three-hour practices from 7pm. He lives another lengthy journey away, in Yuen Long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong baseball player Egon Chan Cheuk-kiu has said the \u201chuge struggle\u201d of juggling a high-flying job with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80838,47392,10417,80845,80840,20943,1765,3448,85,80839,46,1437,80842,80843,54488,2593,5733,50303,105,80841,48795,80844],"class_list":["post-128620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asian-baseball-championship","tag-cantonese","tag-dbs","tag-east-asia-baseball-cup","tag-egon-chan-cheuk-kiu","tag-fujian","tag-guangdong","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-international-commerce-centre","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-jordan-wen-tsz-yin","tag-lam-tin","tag-national-games","tag-philippines","tag-shanghai","tag-sichuan","tag-sports","tag-west-kowloon","tag-yuen-long","tag-zhongshan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}