After a flying reconnaissance visit to Japan, where they dodged deer and navigated treacherous, rain-sodden descents, the daredevil cycling pair of Chloe Leung Wing-yee and Vincent Lau Wan-yau have equipped themselves with the smarts to launch Hong Kong\u2019s Asian Games campaign in grand style next week.<\/p>\n
If it is a bugbear of Herve Dagorne\u2019s that each delegation is allowed only one rider in the individual time trial races that get the Games cycling programme under way next Sunday, then in Leung and Lau, who claimed time trial bronze in Hangzhou in 2023, the head coach believes he has the perfect duo for a glory bid.<\/p>\n
A bronze medallist in the discipline in 2018, and fourth three years ago, Leung has impressively rebounded from the gut punch of being controversially overlooked for the Paris Olympics two years ago; delivering a succession of notable performances that included a pair of fine rides in last year\u2019s UCI Road World Championships.<\/p>\n
An archetypal mountain goat, she claimed Asian Road Cycling Championships time trial silver earlier this year on a flat route in Saudi Arabia that was entirely unconducive to her climbing and technical strengths. But for a self-confessed mental wobble when she realised she was ahead on the road, Leung would have won.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt required no skill,\u201d said Dagorne, who is rubbing his hands together over a course in Nagoya that is \u201cin the middle of nowhere, with super narrow roads\u201d. \u201cThere are lots of leaves, moose running around and it\u2019s very slippery,\u201d Dagorne added.<\/p>\n
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