Hong Kong golden girl Sarah Lee hits out at ‘lazy’ teammates as they struggle through early rounds at Asian Indoors where she takes sprint title

Lee handed India’s Deborah Herold a comprehensive defeat over two rounds of the women’s sprint to pick up her first gold medal of the games at the state-of-the-art velodrome in the capital of Ashgabat.

But, after seeing Vivian Ma Wing-yu miss out on a place on the podium alongside her in the sprint and Law Tsz-chun squeeze into the quarter-finals of the men’s sprint via the repechage, Lee stressed the need for her teammates to show greater application if they want to progress on the international stage.

“I have watched every sprinter in my team,” she said. “They really have to put more effort in training and in every training they have to try their best.

“When they come here they can see the distance between themselves and the other countries. The boys are coming here and they’re struggling to go past the quarter-finals.

“They need to watch more videos to learn more from the race, not just playing around or being lazy,” she said.