Hong Kong competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, for the last time as a British colony.
At these Games, Hong Kong won its first ever Olympic medal. Lee Lai Shan won a gold medal in sailing, in the board (mistral) event.
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“The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is, as in mockery, set.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)