{"id":796675,"date":"2026-07-13T02:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796675\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:50:09","slug":"hong-kong-cycling-coachs-anger-over-crazy-scheduling-rules-for-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796675\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cycling coach\u2019s anger over \u2018crazy\u2019 scheduling, rules for Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Herve Dagorne has been left \u201cfrustrated\u201d over a series of changes for the cycling events at this year\u2019s Asian Games in Japan.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Organisers have reduced teams\u2019 road race quotas from four riders to three, and allowed only one athlete from each delegation to compete in the individual time trial events.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They have also compromised their own road competitions by scheduling them at the same time as the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Positioning the track programme after the road races, a reversal of the order in Hangzhou three years ago, has also left track cyclists fewer than two weeks to recover for the UCI Track World Championships in Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chloe Leung, here competing in last year\u2019s National Games, is eyeing Asian Games time trial glory. Photo: Karma Lo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d8a400d5-bab6-4260-9969-fc14fbccb19b_e2077168.jpg\" title=\"Chloe Leung, here competing in last year\u2019s National Games, is eyeing Asian Games time trial glory. Photo: Karma Lo\"\/>Chloe Leung, here competing in last year\u2019s National Games, is eyeing Asian Games time trial glory. Photo: Karma Lo<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Currently in Italy, where he has a six-strong Hong Kong squad poised to compete in a pair of prestigious six-day events, head coach Dagorne said: \u201cI would love to know their reasoning, it\u2019s very disappointing because [their decisions] are not helping the development of Asian cycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Herve Dagorne has been left \u201cfrustrated\u201d over a series of changes for the cycling events at this year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[374365,53572,64,63,231909,37818,374367,37817,784,374368,12942,53579,10340,941,938,374366,4933,85,57489],"class_list":["post-796675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-asian-cycling-confederation","tag-asian-games","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benjamin-thomas","tag-ceci-lee-sze-wing","tag-cheung-king-wai","tag-chloe-leung-wing-yee","tag-cycling","tag-fiorenzuola","tag-girona","tag-herve-dagorne","tag-hong-kong","tag-japan","tag-montreal","tag-pordenone","tag-shanghai","tag-sports","tag-uci-road-world-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796675","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=796675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}