{"id":67371,"date":"2025-08-14T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67371\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:19:07","slug":"hong-kong-cyclings-vincent-lau-ready-to-be-national-games-leader-after-coach-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67371\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cycling\u2019s Vincent Lau ready to be National Games leader after coach demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As someone who performs the grunt work for his professional team, Vincent Lau Wan-yau has needed a seismic mindset shift to become the spearhead of Hong Kong\u2019s National Games road cycling glory bid.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lau, a 2022 Asian Games medallist and Paris 2024 Olympian, is a domestique for Roojai Insurance, the Thai team he joined last year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI transport bidons [water bottles] to my teammates [from team car], help control the peloton, and spend time at the front to do lead outs and take the wind,\u201d Lau said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s giving me more experience. We have to make the race; be aggressive and attentive. With Hong Kong, we\u2019re not so [prominent] in races.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After Lau recently relinquished his Hong Kong time trial title to Chu Tsun-wai, head coach Herve Dagorne said: \u201cI don\u2019t see the anger in him, sometimes, I want to see more willing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vincent Lau (left) celebrates after finishing second in a recent Brisbane road race. Photo: CAHK\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/08\/14\/626b7c1d-e3ff-495a-9181-846286d8046b_5c737ac7.jpg\" title=\"Vincent Lau (left) celebrates after finishing second in a recent Brisbane road race. Photo: CAHK\"\/>Vincent Lau (left) celebrates after finishing second in a recent Brisbane road race. Photo: CAHK<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The characteristically reserved Lau said Dagorne \u201cwants me to race more aggressively and, sometimes, be more vocal\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As someone who performs the grunt work for his professional team, Vincent Lau Wan-yau has needed a seismic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[53572,64,63,651,53575,784,53579,10340,53576,53573,36448,10018,2591,46,53577,85,53574,37814,53578],"class_list":{"0":"post-67371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-asian-games","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-brisbane","12":"tag-chu-tsun-wai","13":"tag-cycling","14":"tag-herve-dagorne","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-hong-kong-team","17":"tag-macau","18":"tag-national-games","19":"tag-olympics","20":"tag-paris","21":"tag-perth","22":"tag-roojai-insurance","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-victor-lau-wan-hei","25":"tag-vincent-lau-wan-yau","26":"tag-zuhai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67371","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=67371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}