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Sixty six-year-old wheelchair dancer Wong Wo Chau works tirelessly with other para dance sport athletes in Hong Kong SAR, who treat the dance floor as a battleground where age, impairment, and “impossible” are just challenges to be outworked.

They’re an award-winning team, but their story isn’t about settling for what medals say they’ve earned; it’s about refusing to let any limit have the final word.

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00:00Intro
00:08We have been in 1966, since 2009 we were in 19 years
00:11...and since 2007 we started to do so
00:14...and the most important thing is
00:15...you can wear a nice clothes and be very friendly
00:19...and you can wear a pretty look-and-and-look
00:23...and more than ever, more than ever, more than ever
00:26...and more than ever, more than ever
00:35For Hong Kong's para-dance sport athletes, the medals are nice, but they're never the final word.
00:41After coming home from the 2026 World Ability Sport Youth Games, with five silver and two bronzers, they were back
00:48on the floor.
00:49This is a team that doesn't wrestle with your laurels. They're always reaching for more, and they wouldn't have it
00:55any other way.
01:00They're all good. For example, if you're a single player, you can get the third player, it's more than the
01:07second player.
01:08But if you're a single player, you can get the third player, and you can get the third player.
01:18We're in a group of players, and we're more than that.
01:22I'm a group of players, and we're more than that.
01:26And we want to thank you for the both of us and our training.
01:30And we thank you for coming to the group of our 2-0 classes.
01:32We also do our best to engage with others.
01:35And we'll have more time to practice.
01:47I'm 58 years old.
01:50I'm from 2014 to the country.
01:54I was able to do my own work
01:55When I was together, I was 17 years old
02:00I was able to do my own child
02:02I've been with him for 12 years
02:06I'm like a friend
02:09I'm like a child and a child
02:12I think I'm not a year old
02:16I think I don't have any time to do my own
02:17I think I'm going to do my own work
02:18I think I'm going to do my own work
02:20I'm going to do my own work
02:21My own work is better
02:23I'm going to do some kind of stuff
02:26I've taken care of
02:26And I think I'm going to do some different things
02:30I think I have to do certain things
02:32I'm going to do certain things
02:34I think I'm going to work
02:35I'm going to step back
02:47The China Hong Kong Paradance Board
02:49Association has been the backbone of the sport since 2003. Training athletes sending them to
02:56the competitions near and far. But behind the organization is someone who knows the floor
03:01firsthand. Wang Waikin once danced their way through competitions in a wheelchair. Today she
03:08leads the association, training the spotlights for the bigger challenge, growing the sport so
03:13others can shine.

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