Hong Kong cycling is currently trying to stave off the doomsday scenario of failing to qualify a track racer for the Olympic Games for the first time since 1996. The lone hope of ensuring the city’s presence for a seventh straight games is Ceci Lee Sze-wing, the 22-year-old, who claimed four of those Asian championships …
Lee rode conservatively in the closing race, however, settling in the peloton for long periods. As she lost position, head coach Herve Dagorne could be heard shouting: “You are sleeping”. “I was not thinking anything, then heard he was screaming at me, and thought, ‘I have to do a sprint’,” Lee said. Lee said she …
Olympic points remain up for grabs in the closing Nations Cup leg in Milton, Canada, next month. With Hong Kong’s Games hopes dwindling, however, Dagorne raised the prospect of Lee saving her legs for the omnium, where she currently occupies a qualifying position. Lee returns to action in Sunday’s omnium, and could focus her Olympic …
But of the 1,500 seats available, however, only around 25 per cent were occupied. Sales for Saturday were “not very good”, a source told the Post, with roughly 50 per cent of Sunday’s 3,000 tickets, across two sessions, still available. The Track Nations Cup, last staged behind closed doors in Hong Kong during the height …
Lee has confessed to being diminished by pressure in the past, but agreed with head coach Herve Dagorne, who said the 22-year-old rode unencumbered by outside expectations when she claimed four medals at the recent Asian championships. Lee, however, said her mind was not so clear, and “strategically, I was not good enough”, leading to …
Ceci Lee Sze-wing finished second behind Japanese flier Yumi Kajihara in the women’s elimination race to claim Hong Kong’s first medal of the Asian Track Cycling Championships in India. Olympic star Kajihara beat Lee to omnium gold at last year’s Asian Games, and the 22-year-old Hongkonger was unable to exact revenge for that result in …