Hong Kong cycling in ‘transition’ but will step up, say legends Wong Kam-po, Leung Chun-wing
Fellow Asian Games gold medallist Leung Chun-wing, who is now a coach at HKSI, backs city’s cyclists to step up at next year’s National Games
Hong Kong cycling is in a transition period and building up for a “slow breakthrough”, two of the city’s best athletes to ever mount a bike have said.
Three-time Asian Games gold medallist Wong Kam-po said Hong Kong cycling was at a turning point as some of the city’s best moved away from competing and into coaching.
“It’s a turning point now, and I hope they can make a breakthrough,” Wong said. “I think, at this stage, we need to slowly break through. The results [in the past] have been very good, but it is a stage of transformation.”
Another former Asian Games gold medallist, Leung Chun-wing, who joined the Hong Kong Sports Institute as an assistant coach when he retired after the 2023 Asian Games, backed the cyclists to step up at next year’s National Games.
Hong Kong sent only one cyclist to the Paris Olympics in 23-year-old Ceci Lee Sze-wing.
Lee described her Olympic debut in the omnium event as an “intense and unhappy” affair as she finished 20th out of 22 riders before admitting she “didn’t know what I was doing out there”.
