Karen is talkative (though a little inarticulate), confident and unabashed. She likes to make friends and so she has many friends. Her families are all proud of her.

In 2004, Karen won a gold medal for Snowshoeing Competition held at Butterfly Beach. After that, she was further invited to take part in the snowshoeing training 1 or 2 days every week at Butterfly Beach or the Beach Volleyball Court, Choi Hung Road or Sha Tin Jubilee Stadium or the Venue of Special Olympics Hong Kong.

In 2005, Karen was luckily selected as a representative to attend Special Olympics World Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. She was only 8 years old at that time and was the youngest athlete in the competition.

Now Karen still attends the activities organized by Special Olympics Hong Kong or by her school often. She has exclaimed to learn skating since she came back from Japan. With the help of her school, she smoothly participated in the junior skating training. In February, 2008, she was awarded a gold medal and a silver medal at the 32nd Special Olympics Skating Competition. And so she was selected into the training team. On the recently issued athlete list for 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games, Karen becomes one of the speed skating athletes. We are all very happy. Compared with the journey to Japan, it's a challenge for Karen this time to go so far away from home. However, she is believed to cope with it very well.

 

Karen Tam in Speed Skating Competition

 

Karen Tam with her teammates

 

Karen Tam in Nagano, Japan