{"id":4745,"date":"2026-04-14T05:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/4745\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T05:59:08","slug":"impressive-hong-kong-thrash-luxembourg-7-1-as-world-championships-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/4745\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Impressive\u2019 Hong Kong thrash Luxembourg 7-1 as world championships return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong has welcomed the return of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships after an 11-year absence, with the local team delivering a commanding 7-1 victory over Luxembourg in the opening match.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/669297441_10174211074985603_4800967018531484729_2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The tournament, spanning March and April at the Discovery Bay Ice Rink, features competitions across three categories, including men\u2019s Under-18 Division IIIA, women\u2019s senior, and men\u2019s senior events.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui officiated at the opening ceremony of the men\u2019s competition on Monday evening, lending her support to the Hong Kong, China team.<\/p>\n<p>Law said she was delighted to cheer on the home side and praised their performance on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very happy to support the Hong Kong, China team again. Seeing their strong fighting spirit and solid teamwork, I am confident they will achieve good results,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The team lived up to expectations with a dominant display in their opening game, defeating Luxembourg 7-1, a performance Law described as \u201cimpressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will continue until April 19, with Law encouraging the public to show support for the city\u2019s ice hockey team as the competition unfolds.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong has welcomed the return of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championships after an 11-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[698,44,1255,458,1254,1262,1257,1256,1258,1260,5,1261,57,1253,1252,1259],"class_list":["post-4745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-luxembourg","tag-breaking-news","tag-china","tag-english-daily","tag-finance","tag-free-newspaper","tag-headlines","tag-hong-kong-media","tag-hong-kong-news","tag-hong-kong-news-media","tag-latest-news","tag-luxembourg","tag-sing-tao","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-the-standard","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@lu\/116401535057262725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}