{"id":897262,"date":"2026-09-19T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897262\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T03:00:10","slug":"hong-kong-cycling-star-chloe-leung-ready-for-race-of-truth-in-bid-for-asian-games-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897262\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cycling star Chloe Leung ready for race of truth in bid for Asian Games gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After all the meticulous preparation, the talking and the injury frights, Chloe Leung Wing-yee is ready for the clock to start ticking on her race of truth in the remote hills of Shinshiro City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The little finger on her right hand that Leung broke following a racing crash in Italy in July has been a nuisance, but she has reconciled with the fact that it is just one more challenge, besides the slopes and corners that characterise a deeply technical course, to overcome in her pursuit of Asian Games individual time trial (ITT) gold.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Still taped to its neighbouring digit, the offending finger is likely to be more of a pain, both literally and metaphorically, when Leung competes on the track in the Madison, where riders use their hand to sling their teammate back into the race.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI haven\u2019t done much track training because of this,\u201d Leung said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After all the meticulous preparation, the talking and the injury frights, Chloe Leung Wing-yee is ready for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[53572,241979,64,63,37817,784,12942,10340,941,11900,938,465958,235539,85,3725,138293,465959,37814],"class_list":["post-897262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-asian-games","tag-asian-track-championships","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chloe-leung-wing-yee","tag-cycling","tag-girona","tag-hong-kong","tag-japan","tag-madison","tag-montreal","tag-shinshiro-city","tag-shizuoka","tag-sports","tag-thailand","tag-uci-track-world-championships","tag-uci-womens-world-tour","tag-vincent-lau-wan-yau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897262","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=897262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}