After a protracted period of being stalked by injury and illness, Bailee Brown is “100 per cent” fit for an assault on Asian Games glory this month, but teammate Robin Elg is training alone as he grits his teeth through a stubborn shin complaint to race in Japan.A mixed relay bronze medallist in 2018 and 2023, Brown required four surgeries on a badly broken finger following a trail running fall in December 2024. Months earlier, she suffered from an E coli infection and norovirus, while more recently Brown was laid low by a bone stress problem.“She’s showing no signs of having any issues and is back on a full run programme,” Andrew Wright, the Hong Kong head coach, said.“As these guys get older, they’re able to [mentally] cope better with setbacks. Everyone at a high level is dealing with something, you just don’t always hear about it.”The situation for Elg is far more complicated. Following the National Games last November, when he was part of Hong Kong’s silver medal mixed-relay team, Elg was diagnosed with a stress problem in a fibula.“We’ve not been able to shift it, no matter what tactic we’ve tried, or which intervention we’ve used,” Wright said. “This thing is just persistently there.”