Andrew Wright has told Hong Kong’s triathletes that “the pressure is on” to deliver at this weekend’s Asia Championships in Istanbul.
The city squad are assembling in the Turkish city after around six weeks scattered at various training bases, with Oscar Coggins and Robin Elg last to arrive on Thursday from their altitude camp in France.
Wright described his athletes’ overseas training blocks as “a breath of fresh air”, but said results were typically bad “between days four and eight after altitude, so you either go in early or very late”.
“Our guys usually live and train together, and being in close proximity to the same people all year round is really hard,” he added. “They all seem like different people now, but the pressure’s on. You have to step up and show everybody this is the right way to do things.
“If we don’t deliver results, it’d be easy to say none of that stuff worked.”
Jason Ng Tai-long prepared for Saturday’s men’s race in Flagstaff, Arizona, while Wong Tsz-to, who has already secured National Games qualification, trained in the mainland province of Yunnan.