Former Hong Kong Sports Institute Scholarship Athlete (Karatedo) Hung Ka-long, who is studying his third year in BSocSc (Hons) in Sports and Recreation Management at The Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi), highly praised the MOU signing. He said that the new arrangement enabled full-time elite athletes to strike a balance between sport and study through flexible course arrangement, facilitating their pursuit of dual career pathways.