Hong Kong’s triathletes given ultimatum as clock ticks to National Games
None of city’s squad achieve selection for November’s Games at Chengdu World Cup

Head coach Andrew Wright has warned Hong Kong’s male triathletes that they have six months to make significant running improvements or risk waving goodbye to National Games glory.
None of the city’s men or women met the Games selection criteria at Saturday’s Chengdu World Triathlon Cup, where Jason Ng Tai-long’s 26th place was the best of it for Hong Kong.
Wright said he would investigate why Oscar Coggins was off-colour, after the Tokyo Olympian recorded a heart-rate 30 beats per minute lower than in his two previous races, and “blew to pieces” on the running leg before a 40th-place finish.
Robin Elg, who was hoping to receive his passport in time to compete in November’s Games, finished 28th, six seconds slower than Ng’s time of one hour, 41 minutes and 35 seconds.

“Robin was our stand-out performer,” Wright said. “He ran a big personal best after coming back from a stress fracture. He’d have probably been top-20 if the race hadn’t come together on the bike, which was a big disadvantage for him, because he’s a swim-biker.”