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Yim Wai Ho is a goalkeeper with the Hong Kong, China men's water polo team. In 2023 he was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the men's water polo event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, where the territory sent a squad of thirteen players. Water polo is a team sport played in a pool, with seven players a side including a goalkeeper who guards the goal and directs the defence across four periods, combining swimming, passing and fitness. At the Asian Games the men's tournament opens with group matches before the knockout rounds; Hong Kong's run took them to the quarter-finals, where they met hosts China, who won 23-3, and a Xinhua photographer recorded Yim defending his goal as the team's goalkeeper, one of the more noticed moments for Hong Kong water polo at the Games. Water polo is a minority sport in Hong Kong with few standard competition venues, and its athletes compete largely on an amateur basis in local pool leagues and international invitationals, so representing the territory at an Asian Games is no small achievement. Yim has for years helped sustain the men's team alongside teammates such as Fung Kong Chun and Ku Yat Wa, and is one of the figures keeping Hong Kong's water polo challenge alive on the Asian stage.