Hong Kong young fencers draw inspiration from Olympic 'Sword Queen'

"I woke up to the pleasant surprise of Vivian Kong (winning)," Lloyd told AFP on Monday at a fencing school in Central District, Hong Kong's commercial heartland. The 30-year-old Kong on Saturday became only the third Hong Kong athlete in history to have a gold medal draped around her neck when she beat France's Auriane Mallo-Breton in front of a fiercely partisan crowd at the Paris Games. She won 13-12 in the most thrilling fashion, a sudden-death final point securing victory in the nail-biting...