{"id":462188,"date":"2026-02-08T18:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:11:09","slug":"hong-kong-cyclists-not-proud-of-themselves-after-missed-medal-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462188\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cyclists \u2018not proud of themselves\u2019 after missed medal opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Head coach Herve Dagorne said his star pair of Ceci Lee Sze-wing and Chloe Leung Wing-yee were \u201cnot proud of themselves\u201d after the golden glow of Saturday gave way to dark disappointment on Sunday for Hong Kong\u2019s cyclists.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pivotal members of the six-strong team that clinched Asian Road Cycling Championships time trial mixed relay gold at the beginning of the weekend in Saudi Arabia, Lee and Leung had been fancied to add to the city squad\u2019s two-medal haul in the women\u2019s road race on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Caught napping by an early breakaway, however, they never recovered, as rival teams with riders in the leading pack neutered any Hong Kong attempts to make up ground.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lee finished 11th after completing the flat 109.2km (67.9-mile) course in two hours, 45 minutes and 50 seconds, 37.92 seconds slower than winner Zhang Hao, who clocked 2:45:12 to add gold to the time trial bronze she earned on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first Chinese winner since Tang Kerong in 2009, Zhang narrowly beat second-placed Nafosat Kozieva of Uzbekistan and South Korea\u2019s Shin Ji-eun, who claimed bronze.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coach Herve Dagorne (right) praised Ceci Lee (left) for not giving up the fight. Photo: Eugene Lee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ecd67b49-e36d-4f4a-ac94-ba1eaabf2ef0_301ec6dc.jpg\" title=\"Coach Herve Dagorne (right) praised Ceci Lee (left) for not giving up the fight. Photo: Eugene Lee\"\/>Coach Herve Dagorne (right) praised Ceci Lee (left) for not giving up the fight. Photo: Eugene Lee<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Leung and sister Boey Leung Bo-yee were 21st and 28th, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Herve Dagorne said his star pair of Ceci Lee Sze-wing and Chloe Leung Wing-yee were \u201cnot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[188873,93517,49,48,93515,188870,93516,635,93519,15674,99996,188871,188872,54701,13341,188869,82,2457,188874],"class_list":{"0":"post-462188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-asian-road-championships","9":"tag-boey-leung-bo-yee","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-ceci-lee-sze-wing","13":"tag-chloe-leung","14":"tag-chloe-leung-wing-yee","15":"tag-cycling","16":"tag-herve-dagorne","17":"tag-hong-kong","18":"tag-kwan-tsz-kwan","19":"tag-law-ching-kiu","20":"tag-nafosat-kozieva","21":"tag-national-games","22":"tag-saudi-arabia","23":"tag-shin-ji-eun","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-uzbekistan","26":"tag-zhang-hao"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462188","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=462188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}