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The UCI Track Cycling World Cup is a multi-race tournament held over a track cycling season - usually between October and February. Each series is divided into several rounds, each held in a different country. The six-meeting series begins in Paris and concludes in Hong Kong.
- Leung has sore head and shows a crack inside her helmet, but says no serious injuries after incident during Madison
- Olympic hopeful Lee posts a personal best in the women’s elimination race
Tracks Nations Cup organisers say they were under no pressure to deliver specific revenue or attendance figures, despite government granting the event ‘M’ Mark status.
Olympic hopeful struggles under weight of her own expectation during Sunday’s Nations Cup omnium race, says she was ‘thinking about all the people who wanted us to have good results’.
The Track Nations Cup attracted only a smattering of paying punters to Hong Kong Velodrome on Friday, but stayaways missed top-class racing.
Cycling head coach Herve Dagorne is confident Lee will manage the ‘stress’ of racing in a home Nations Cup, in which crucial Olympic qualification points are up for grabs.
Acting Hong Kong head coach Herve Dagorne is anticipating a ‘special event’ when his riders go for glory at a home UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup meeting in March.
‘Athletes in North Korea may not have enough equipment but they are determined to succeed,’ Wong Kam-po says as he insists his city’s riders are well supported.
The Hong Kong 2023 Cyclothon will feature different race lengths for professionals, amateurs and family fun.
UCI says ban, which will come into effect on Monday, necessary to ‘ensure equal opportunities’.
Hong Kong’s Ceci Lee Sze-wing adds an omnium silver to her scratch race bronze in Malaysia on Monday.
Hongkonger vows to learn from ‘mistakes’ she made in the scratch race, after she took bronze to follow medals for compatriots Yang Qianyu and Leung Chun-wing in Malaysia.
Rumours have swirled for months about the 36-year-old cyclist’s future, and she finally admitted the time had come to stop during a speech at her graduation at Baptist University.
Lee Sze-wing claims second ominum title at Hong Kong International Track Cup and is expected to compete in both road and track cycling in Hangzhou.
Decision by British Cycling to ban transgender athletes from elite female races meets with universal support at Hong Kong International Track Cup.
Veteran tips Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom to ‘take up my legacy’ after winning sprint and keirin on return to Hong Kong Velodrome, where he won World Championships gold in 2017.
Lee dominates women’s omnium winning all 4 of the Olympic programme’s events to claim gold.
International Track Cup will see Hong Kong’s Yeung Cho-yiu chasing success in absence of veteran Sarah Lee, and is part of qualifying for this year’s track World Championships.
Chairman of city’s Cycling Association highlights danger city’s team won’t qualify for the 2024 Games after disappointing displays in first two legs of Nations Cup.
UCI ranking points up for grabs at May’s Hong Kong Cup as Cycling Association acts to ensure city’s athletes will not be ruled out of inaugural World Championships showpiece.
Hong Kong will welcome back the track cycling event in March 2024 for the first international meet at its Tseung Kwan O velodrome in three years.
The 21-year-old targets success at next month’s UCI Nations Cup after winning gold, silver and bronze at China Track National Championships.
Rising star Lee Sze-wing one of 5 city athletes whose bicycles went missing on trip from Hong Kong to Colombia, leaving her to borrow teammate’s bike for UCI Nations Cup races in Colombia.
Double Olympic medal-winning track cyclist part of 11-strong Hong Kong squad in Colombia, but is ‘nervous’ after 10-month lay-off from competition.
Double Olympic bronze medallist still with Hong Kong team after celebrating 35th birthday, but Hangzhou plans on hold until ‘there is a clearer idea of new dates’.
‘[Mental health is] not about being strong, or weak, in the head. It’s an illness,’ says Mark Cavendish, who has been nominated for Laureus World Sports’ comeback of the year award.
Singapore’s Chelsie Tan has joined Team BikeExchange-Jayco, which is based in the Girona region of northern Spain, while Malaysia’s Siti Nur Alia Monsor has been selected to join new development squad WorldTour Canyon-SRAM.
‘Most of the time we’re not actually in it for the medals,’ says a philosophical Sarah Lee Wai-sze, who won gold and silver at the UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup in Hong Kong last weekend.
UCI head Gilles Peruzzi praises ‘well-oiled’ Hong Kong model as organising committee chairman Simon Leung Chi-wa reflects on event’s high expenses and government-backed ‘Tokyo rehearsal’.
Hong Kong’s Sarah Lee Wai-sze said she ‘felt quite nervous’ after returning from 14 months without competition after being pipped by Japan’s Yuka Kobayashi.
