{"id":269504,"date":"2025-11-08T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T07:44:10","slug":"national-games-hong-kongs-mens-cycling-medal-hopes-disappear-in-sprint-for-line-in-zhuhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/269504\/","title":{"rendered":"National Games: Hong Kong\u2019s men\u2019s cycling medal hopes disappear in sprint for line in Zhuhai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s hopes of a medal in the men\u2019s cycling road race disappeared in a sprint for the line in Zhuhai on Saturday, with Shandong\u2019s Liu Zhicheng taking gold.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Beijing\u2019s Xue Chaohua edged just ahead of Hu Haijie, from Yunnan, to take silver, while Hong Kong\u2019s top finisher after more than five hours was Chu Tsun-wai, who came home in 15th.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The city\u2019s next best two riders were Cheung Shi-ho in 21st and Yau Ping-cheung three places behind.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After a crash halted his podium charge in the men\u2019s time trial on Friday, Vincent Lau Wan-yau, who harboured hopes of winning the race, could only come in 83rd in a time of five hours, 18 minutes and three seconds, some 58 seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI am so sorry that I didn\u2019t bring a medal back home,\u201d Chu said. \u201cAt the final sprint, me and my teammates could have done it better, so there were some mistakes when we were fighting for positions, and the result was not such a good ranking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s hopes of a medal in the men\u2019s cycling road race disappeared in a sprint for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[93520,49,48,635,89331,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-269504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-2025-national-games","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-road-cycling","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}