{"id":276677,"date":"2026-02-06T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/276677\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:08:11","slug":"hong-kong-squad-warned-that-asia-triathlon-cup-races-are-as-serious-as-they-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/276677\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong squad warned that Asia Triathlon Cup races are \u2018as serious as they come\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Asia Triathlon Cup races might inhabit the lowest rung of the competitive ladder, but Andrew Wright has told his Hong Kong squad that Saturday\u2019s event in Malaysia is \u201cas serious as they come\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Oscar Coggins and Bailee Brown will lead the city\u2019s charge in Putrajaya, as the pair begin working towards an Asian Games in September that could shape their 2028 Olympic hopes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wright\u2019s athletes will have a sterner test at next month\u2019s World Cup leg on Hainan Island, but the head coach said: \u201cAny race where you\u2019re using taxpayers\u2019 money to fund the team to go, you have to put in 100 per cent effort and take it seriously.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe\u2019re at the end of a training block and have done no race-specific training, but I need to see people stepping up, being professional, delivering maximum effort and showing they can compete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last year\u2019s laser-eyed focus on the National Games came at the cost of world ranking points.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Robin Elg could miss a squad camp in Yunnan as he manages a bone stress reaction. Photo: Eugene Lee\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/5d0975d5-9bcf-42f7-8387-c2caf1b3a791_af0edc5d.jpg\" title=\"Robin Elg could miss a squad camp in Yunnan as he manages a bone stress reaction. Photo: Eugene Lee\"\/>Robin Elg could miss a squad camp in Yunnan as he manages a bone stress reaction. Photo: Eugene Lee<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Coggins, for example, is currently dwelling in a No 141 position that does not reflect the ability of an athlete who has made significant strides since finishing 33rd in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asia Triathlon Cup races might inhabit the lowest rung of the competitive ladder, but Andrew Wright has told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[142883,86429,972,142881,142885,142882,77142,3448,110649,85,46,142886,12437,54488,12512,142884,105,86176],"class_list":["post-276677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-andrew-wright","tag-asian-games","tag-australia","tag-bailee-brown","tag-cade-wright","tag-charlotte-hall","tag-edinburgh","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-sports-institute","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jason-ng-tai-long","tag-malaysia","tag-national-games","tag-netherlands","tag-oscar-coggins","tag-sports","tag-yunnan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}