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Victoria Park at Causeway Bay (above) is the Colony's largest and most popular recreation area. Covering 3 acres of land reclaimed from a former typhoon shelter, it has faciliies for a wide variety of sports and its swimming pool is built to Olympic standards. More than 346,000 people over half of them childre-use the pool every year and a similar one is to be built in Kowloon. Football (right), the Colony's most popular sport, seems to gain ever more followers each season and Fecomes keener. Each year a number competition between Colony teams
of overseas teams visit Hong Kong play against local sides. Basketball (left) has also become popular since the war and most public parks have courts which are usually heavily booked.