{"id":93332,"date":"2025-08-24T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93332\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:33:08","slug":"hong-kong-chosen-to-host-cycling-world-cups-in-boost-for-young-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/93332\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong chosen to host cycling World Cups, in boost for young talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Herve Dagorne has toasted the opportunity to thrust some of Hong Kong\u2019s brightest young talents into world-class competition after the city was chosen to host track cycling World Cup legs in 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The UCI World Cup is returning next year, after five years of operating as the UCI Track Nations Cup. This year\u2019s edition was especially unsatisfactory, after teams learned late that it would be contested over a single leg in Turkey, in March.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s head coach Dagorne said that the global cycling governing body, the UCI, had originally planned to take 2026\u2019s second leg to Cairo, but the Egyptian capital failed to meet the hosting requirements.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The event will now take place at Hong Kong Velodrome in Tseung Kwan O from April 17 to 19 and will be sandwiched between the legs held in Australia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ma Yik-fei, 18, is among the young Hong Kong riders who could race in next year\u2019s World Cup. Photo: CAHKC\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5a016d46-64cb-4a69-916e-f0ff620609b6_7d5042dd.jpg\" title=\"Ma Yik-fei, 18, is among the young Hong Kong riders who could race in next year\u2019s World Cup. Photo: CAHKC\"\/>Ma Yik-fei, 18, is among the young Hong Kong riders who could race in next year\u2019s World Cup. Photo: CAHKC<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In 2027, when the World Cup competition will provide qualifying points for the following year\u2019s Olympics, Hong Kong will again be the host of the series\u2019 second stop. The opening leg will take place in Canada, and the series will later wrap up in mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Herve Dagorne has toasted the opportunity to thrust some of Hong Kong\u2019s brightest young talents into world-class competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[2840,19608,49,54702,48,95,635,54700,54697,15674,54696,54695,54694,54693,3845,54701,54699,16061,4963,14404,82,54698,15646],"class_list":["post-93332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-australia","tag-brisbane","tag-ca","tag-cairo","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-cycling","tag-dagorne","tag-egyptian","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-event","tag-hong-kong-host","tag-hong-kong-sport","tag-hong-kong-talent","tag-malaysia","tag-national-games","tag-nilai","tag-olympic-games","tag-olympics","tag-perth","tag-sports","tag-tseung-kwan-o","tag-uci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93332","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=93332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}