Azim hopes to make SEA Games squad after silver medal finish in HK
PETALING JAYA: National track cyclist Abdul Azim Aliyas is staking a serious claim for a place in the SEA Games team after riding to a silver at the just concluded Hong Kong Cup.
Azim defeated experienced cyclist Naomi Kojima to clinch a silver in the final of the men's scratch race for Malaysia to keep alive his hope to compete in the biennial Games in Thailand in December.
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