{"id":214020,"date":"2025-10-15T01:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:08:08","slug":"symbolic-national-games-cycling-race-to-span-macao-guangdong-and-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/214020\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Symbolic\u2019 National Games cycling race to span Macao, Guangdong and Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s National Games will be the first to see its men\u2019s road cycling event traverse three jurisdictions, Hong Kong\u2019s Standard newspaper reports<\/a>. The event will be the only one in the Games to incorporate all three hosts: Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong Province.<\/p>\n

At a recent press conference, the 231.8-kilometre race was described as \u201ca symbol of integration among the three regions\u201d by Huang Zhenqiu, the vice mayor of the Zhuhai Municipal Government and vice chairman of the National Games Zhuhai Executive Committee.<\/p>\n

The cycling event is scheduled for 8 November, starting at the Zhuhai Museum. Its 104 competitors will cycle 55.8 kilometres in Hong Kong, 13.5 kilometres in Macao, 117.7 kilometres in Zhuhai and 44.8 kilometres in Hengqin via a route incorporating the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.<\/p>\n

[See more: How to buy tickets for the 15th National Games events being held in Macao<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Measures will be in place to enable the cyclists to cross six boundary checkpoints during the race at speeds of up to 40 kilometres per hour. A successful race rehearsal was held last month to test out the route, Huang said.<\/p>\n

The 15th National Games will take place from 9 to 21 November, with Macao hosting five competitions \u2013 including women\u2019s volleyball, table tennis, karate, and 3\u00d73 basketball. The SAR will also host two badminton events for the National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the National Special Olympics, which will be held from 8 to 15 December. <\/p>\n

Tickets are available via the Games\u2019 website<\/a> and the WeChat account \u201cNational Games Special Olympics Macao Division.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year\u2019s National Games will be the first to see its men\u2019s road cycling event traverse three jurisdictions,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-214020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}