{"id":613382,"date":"2026-04-19T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:03:22","slug":"hong-kong-cycling-coach-lauds-teams-uci-track-world-cup-showing-despite-fruitless-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/613382\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cycling coach lauds team\u2019s UCI Track World Cup showing despite fruitless day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong head coach Herve Dagorne praised the performance of the city\u2019s riders despite finishing Saturday empty-handed at the UCI Track World Cup.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Across four events at the Hong Kong Velodrome, Ceci Lee Sze-wing and Chloe Leung Wing-yee competed in the women\u2019s Madison but failed to secure a second medal for the team.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Meanwhile, To Cheuk-hei delivered a strong performance in the men\u2019s Keirin, finishing fifth in the final to record a best-ever result for a Hong Kong rider in the event.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dagorne said there had been \u201cgood moments\u201d, and the Frenchman was particularly pleased with the 26-year-old To qualifying for the final.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201c[It was] at this level of performance with, I would say, all the best riders of the world. It\u2019s a real, real, real performance,\u201d Dagorne said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He noted that To passed the \u201cfastest man in the world\u201d, European champion Matt Richardson, in the semi-final. \u201cSo this is a very positive moment of the day. This is the highlight,\u201d the coach added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong head coach Herve Dagorne praised the performance of the city\u2019s riders despite finishing Saturday empty-handed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[70322,49,48,93515,93516,635,3456,637,114016,93519,15674,230877,11517,114019,230878,99987,82,230879,108917],"class_list":{"0":"post-613382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-asian-championships","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-ceci-lee-sze-wing","12":"tag-chloe-leung-wing-yee","13":"tag-cycling","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-france","16":"tag-harrie-lavreysen","17":"tag-herve-dagorne","18":"tag-hong-kong","19":"tag-keirin","20":"tag-madison","21":"tag-matthew-richardson","22":"tag-mens-omnium","23":"tag-sarah-lee-wai-sze","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-to-cheuk-hei","26":"tag-uci-track-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613382","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=613382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}