Runners complain of overcrowding after closure of sports grounds ahead of Hong Kong Marathon

With the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon little more than a week away, local runners are struggling to find space to train at the city’s few remaining open public tracks. The problems started after two government sports grounds in East Kowloon were closed. Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground was the first one to go last June for track resurfacing work, which is expected to finish in March. And this month, Kowloon Bay Sports Ground closed for renovation for nine months. Kowloon Bay Sports Ground...