{"id":280984,"date":"2025-11-13T04:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280984\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:05:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:05:03","slug":"national-games-day-4-hong-kong-cyclists-in-pursuit-of-gold-fan-storms-into-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/280984\/","title":{"rendered":"National Games, day 4: Hong Kong cyclists in pursuit of gold, Fan storms into semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s journalism by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.scmp.com\/\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">subscribing<\/a>. Get faster notifications on the latest updates by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/scmp.onelink.me\/3586748601\/5z3qbkxi\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">downloading our app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There\u2019s a very Olympic feeling building at the moment, which is comforting and strange both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Siobhan Haughey getting ready for a gold medal swim, Hong Kong\u2019s fencers preparing to start their own bids for glory, and the city\u2019s cyclists back in action on the track.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau, see Tokyo in 2021, Hangzhou in 2023 or Paris last year. The National Games might not be global, but they have that feeling about them all the same.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At least we know how to handle what comes next, which is the anticipation, the excitement and then the reaction. It\u2019s day four in the Greater Bay Area, so follow us for all the action as it happens.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More from our coverage:<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reporting by Paul McNamara, Tom Bell, Jiang Chuqin, Ada Li, Wynna Wong, Josh Ball, and Mike Chan in Shenzhen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[1724,64,63,99,512,784,164,10340,1625,44,1721,28765,588,85,105,2489,1720],"class_list":["post-280984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-cycling","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280984","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=280984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}