Chapter 11: The Legion of the Emperor Maker
The "Jinchong" cycling team, the No. 1 cycling team in Guangdong, finally has to prove that its Group F, T21, T18 and T15 are the emperors of the province and even the country. Another big race is coming, and the most anticipated big competition of the sponsors is finally going to be staged, and if you win the championship, you can win the YIKI battle in terms of momentum, and it is here that the Seven Cities Bicycle Road Race in the Greater Pearl River Delta is held.
Departure point: Hong Kong International Airport Convention and Exhibition Car Park, Finish: Old Church on Coloane Island, Macau, 4 days and 3 nights race, 660 kilometers long.
Day 1: Hong Kong Lantau Airport Expo Pavilion starts, passing through Tsing Ma Bridge, entering the Western Passage Bridge, going to Merlin Pass to Guanlan Golf Course,
Day 2: Guanlan to Dongguan Songshan Lake, then from Songshan Lake to Guancheng, Shangzengcheng, and then to Guangzhou Yuexiu Mountain Sports Ground,
Day 3: Yuexiu Mountain to Huadu, then south to Shamian, along the river road to Pazhou, into Nansha, to Panyu City Bridge,
Day 4: Shiqiao to Zhongshan Shiqi, then to Tsui Heng Village, Zhuhai Kyushu Port to Zhuhai Lover's Road, then into Gongbei Pass, through the Ruins of St. Paul's, the old Taipa Bridge, the hotel area, and finally to the end point - Macau Coloane Church as the end point.
The four-day race totals 660 kilometres and is a tough race for the youngsters.
In the Pearl River Delta region in mid-April, it is sunny and cloudy and rainy, and occasionally the cold wind from the north invades, which also makes people have unbearable cold. However, the weather in the Guangdong-Pearl River Delta before and after the Qingming Festival is elusive. Therefore, the team needs to prepare more maintenance tools and efficiency exercises.
As early as the beginning of March, the team had already come to Hong Kong for a site inspection and trial and doubtful training, and the next day in Shenzhen and Guangzhou for the same type of training, and by the third day of frequent training, the team members began to show fatigue and war weariness.
So, when they were able to rest, the players were very excited. Mrs. Huang secretly glanced at her husband, and then said: If we are in such a state, can we get the top three?
Huang Qiang immediately shook his head and said: Hmph! If you play in the current state, don't say the top three, you can't even do the bottom three. So, the best way to do this is to give them plenty of rest and then give them courage. Mrs. Huang also supports her husband's choice, but she must complete the investigation and analysis of each track before she can go home to rest.
That night, Mrs. Huang held a meeting with the team members in the hotel and announced that the training was over and we would rest for 10 days. Everyone applauded when they heard that there was a 10-day break. Zhang Yuan was thinking that he could finally rest, and he could choose to go home to farm and take care of his younger siblings, as well as strengthen his physical fitness and training on the flat road.
Zhang Yuan has been praised by the local media and everyone in the city as the most representative of peace and the winner of the game.
For a junior high school student who is just 14 years old, the pressure he feels is not to lose.
Therefore, the 10-day rest can be constructive, giving him a chance to relax and rest, or he can try to show his strengths as much as possible because of the pressure, creating a strange phenomenon that he is not aware of without knowing that he is physically and mentally exhausted. Perhaps, Zhang Yuan is a person who is unwilling to stay in a small mountain town with beautiful mountains and rivers for the rest of his life, his bicycle is set off to the world, and he can travel with him, and he is also a world figure, the so-called companions include both friends and competitors.
In the world in Zhang Yuan's eyes, none of the companions in the competition are enemies, but none of them are not competitors.
Static Zhang Yuan, who likes to read maps and study topography and astronomy, can have his own ideas to save effort on the same mountain road, even if such a method will be regarded as child's play and unprofessional by cyclists in advanced countries, he doesn't care, or even worse criticism? Because, he was born to be the king of cycling.
THE KING RETURN, THE MOVIE "SUB-RING KING" EPISODE 3 "THE RETURN OF THE KING", EXACTLY... That's me, Zhang Yuan likes this movie, this is the self-confidence of winning an international competition, from a Hakka poor family from an inconspicuous mountain city.
The 10-day break passed at once, and a group of members of all levels of the "Jinchong" cycling team, together with representatives of the support team and cheerleading team, gathered in the large conference room of "Che Dou" (the original conference room has been remodeled and expanded in size and equipment).
Huang Qiang spoke first: This race (Pearl River Delta Seven Cities Bicycle Competition) has a lot of flat roads and very few sections (less than 15%) of the mountainous slopes.
So, this time the test is long-distance endurance and final sprint explosiveness, and your physical fitness is definitely not inferior to the best riders in the "Cheer Up", but the concentration and on-the-spot reaction of the race, including Sam, are basically at two levels compared to Huang Futao.
Therefore, from today onwards, everyone will have to watch video recordings every day, including the Tour de France, Jeju, Sikoku, Singapore and Malaysia (Singapore to Kuala Lumpur), Taiwan Roundabout, etc., I will explain to you all the things that you have ignored in the past, and at the same time, I ask you to take notes, we are not computers, it is impossible to remember everything.
Now it's my wife's turn to say, and Mrs. Huang said as soon as she opened her mouth: Don't think that Agile will be a company that will support us forever, we only signed a one-year contract. If we were like last summer, no one looked down on us at all, and Agile would have left us at their agile pace.
Thankfully, we have bounced back from the end of the year and have never been discouraged in the face of failure. Moreover, the stronger and stronger psychological quality shows our true strength, which is our advantage.
To put it simply: "Don't be surprised when things change; Step by step", it will make us achieve experience, step by step to the first place in Guangdong, and even where there are Chinese and Chinese, everyone knows that the riders selected by the "strongest bicycle shop" are first-class players. (From the Pro players in Group F to T15, everyone suddenly felt proud and confident). yes, that's what I want people to look at...
If there are still people who can raise their hands because they don't have faith, we can't work with you anymore... Is there such a person? For a moment, there was no one in the conference room. Because, no one wants to make their own difference under the pressure of the masses.
What's more, they are all seasoned masters, and they will only do their best when they meet the strongest competitors.
This time, our opponents are all the top figures in the country, and they have two common goals, namely: to win the "strongest" first; Win again "Cheer Up". This is the common aspiration of the 100 strongest teams in China, as long as we win our "strongest", we can challenge the emperor "Zhenyang".
However, Zhang Yuan, the T15 champion of the Hainan Island International Championship last time, was able to check this big bargain because of a collision accident between 1 to 7 players. Therefore, our competitors are not like the general media, they absolutely know and understand the inside situation, and you will not pay much attention to Zhang Yuan.
They think that if it weren't for Huang Futao's teammates making mistakes, they would have had a chance to win the international championship for Zhang Yuan, a stupid boy, if he wasn't so lucky, how could he win the championship? If you want Zhang Yuan to win the international championship, tell him not to dream for the rest of his life.... Yunyun
Mrs. Huang deliberately said Zhang Yuan's problem, hoping that he could correct his own problems and correct the concept that he was the inevitable champion.
Zhang Yuan must understand that his status in "Jin Chong" is like this, with the youngest qualifications, the youngest age, and the weakest experience.
The last time he won the T15 championship, it was a stroke of luck. Seriously, Zhang Yuan came to "Jin Chong" at the beginning, he was just an ordinary driver, and to improve a little, he was just a strong competitor, he was not a real emperor. Without luck, Zhang Yuan may just be an emperor maker, and not a emperor maker in the main position. In Rush, as long as your overall score is not in the top four of the T15 best, your position will be taken by any better contender.
Our T15 goal this time, at least one championship, everyone is thinking, team championship or individual championship, there must be one; However, ZHENYANG, led by Huang Futao, has always been the king, unrivaled team and individual champion driver.
The 'bang' came from Huang Qiang's palm, why are you in a daze? Don't think that with the support of sponsors, it is fluttering, now is the real society, you have no excuses, you must have good results, otherwise the sponsors will withdraw immediately, and we will be beaten back to the prototype, are you willing?
"No", "NO", "NEVER", "I don't", "I don't want to lose", "I want to wear this suit all the time",
Different people have different ways of reacting... Huang Qiang nodded and said: There is only one way to cherish the beauty in front of you, what is it? Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and they all stood up together and said: Down with 'Zhenyang', down with 'Zhenyang'.
Wu Xiaoge is the representative of everyone, he said directly: to dominate the country, you must first defeat "Zhenyang", and then compete with Taiwan's champion "Dongwei"; If we want to dominate East Asia, we need to defeat the three major Japanese teams and the two Korean teams. In this Pearl River Delta Seven Cities Cycling Race, these five strong teams from Japan and South Korea have sent their B and C teams to compete with us. Taiwan's "Dongwei" did not come, they participated in the Bicycle Desert World Race in Qatar, and they were aiming for the Olympic gold medal.
Wu Xiaoge's words made everyone excited and frightened. In the past, racing may have been limited to age or progression, so when you meet a foreign driver, you just think of them as if they were racing together, but each of them scored their own points. But now it's different, we're going to do it with them!
Suddenly, they seemed to be brought into a new realm of competition by the words of Huang Qiang and his wife.
There is a saying in Guangdong: "It's not a raptor, but it's not a river", although the five major teams of Japan and South Korea all send second-class players to try. It seems that they are going to test the standard of our riders, and will we lose? Everyone was excited when they heard the word "Japan and Korea". Therefore, the noise and clamor also came out, and everyone's mood was also high...
Mrs. Huang said: We began to discuss the strategy and logistics support of each group, and each group first discussed in groups, and the cheerleaders and logistics teams worked together....
On Wednesday, 22 April 2009, more than 4,000 road cyclists of all ages, including more than 600 women, gathered in a large car park in front of the Hong Kong Airport Expo.
Zhang Yuan's team was resting in a remote corner, quietly looking at the nearby contestants, only him, who had always wanted to see someone, so his eyes kept looking around at his Yiren to appear...
Xu Xiaoyan's face is not very good today, probably because Zhang Yuan is looking for her. He Xiaohua has always been with Xu Xiaoyan and occasionally makes her happy, but Xu Xiaoyan just can't be happy, and she can't even smile.
Liao Caixia is also looking for a look, who is the woman who made Xu Xiaoyan jealous and made Zhang Yuan lose her soul? What ability fan can die Zhang Yuan.
The pink race number bib, the eye-catching white jersey of "Zhenyang", the 4 girl cycling team, and a particularly outstanding beautiful girl appeared not far in front of Liao Caixia's eyes. Her height and figure will not be worse than Caixia, and her appearance is also beautiful, but it is not Xiaoyan's white and pure, but she has a heroic appearance and sunny complexion, no wonder Zhang Nerd (Zhang Yuan's other nickname) always misses this little vixen! It's true! (Cute vixen appears).
Huang Futao was resting in a corner not far from her, reading a magazine, and the cover was actually Zhang Yuan... It was an interview record of the last two issues of Hong Kong's most popular sports magazine, "Victory", in early March, and it can be seen that Huang Futao read the article with great interest, without jealousy and complaining, which is the demeanor and bearing of the emperor.
Zhang Yuan can't catch up with Huang Futao at this point, but they are individual and independent people, and there is no need to follow him and have the same personality and mood.
With 10 minutes to go before the race, the teams and drivers are on standby, some are wiping their sweat, some are working on pedals or adjusting their helmets, etc...
Zhang Yuan is the pair of dead fish eyes that symbolize 'a pair' of dead fish, always staring at the "Zhenyang" beautiful girl, except for her, Zhang Yuan didn't see anything. What's her name? Since I met her on the first day in the peaceful Dongdi Road Saipan, it has been no less than 10 times, and I have never known what her last name is? What is the relationship with Huang Futao? Also, does she have a boyfriend, and if so, is it Huang Futao? It shouldn't be, it's better not to... At that moment, Zhang Yuan didn't know that he was going to have a competition.
Sam glanced at the nerd and decided to say the next sentence: If you win the individual championship in T15 this competition, I will tell you everything about that beautiful girl, even if you don't have a second share, you can do it yourself.
In a blink of an eye, Zhang Yuan regained his composure, and he knew that the antidote to his simple thinking disease was on Sam (Zhang Yuan is really stupid, just look for Huang Futao and ask a few words, everything will be clear, you can also ask Huang Qiang and his wife to inquire)
Zhang Yuan is an infatuated stupid pig, haha! This is He Xiaohua saying bad things about him in the past six months, this nerd love is as stupid as a pig. This sentence was not said behind his back, but the store of the strongest bicycle shop directly teased his joke.
The electronic clock shows that the race starts in the last 10 seconds, and all the drivers are ready to start, and the men's group is divided into four classes, T21, T18 and T15, each group starts 30 minutes apart, and the women's group is also divided into four groups, because the women participating in the competition are smaller, they can start the race at the same time.
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The time of the T15 match came, and the Chinese representatives of the two teams of "Zhenyang" and "Jinchong" were at the top. Of course, they were accompanied by representatives of the U.S. state team Utah, the French road national team B team and the Italian city of Turin.
After that, "Niyori" Bicycle Co., Ltd. in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, "Akihito" Bicycle Co., Ltd. in Yamazaki Prefecture and "Shimizu" Bicycle Co., Ltd. in Shizuoka Prefecture are side by side, and "Chenhan No. 1" Bicycle Co., Ltd. in Axe Mountain, South Korea and "Water Sustainability" Bicycle Co., Ltd. in Incheon, and the rest of the seed team is ranked in the third row or later according to the seed ranking.
In the last 3,2,1, the officiant pulled the flute from the command platform, and the athletes rushed out of the starting point like flowing water...
Leaving the Hong Kong International Airport and entering Lantau Island, because it is a highway, it is a sweetness for the American team, which is both tall and heavy, so it leads the front first, and then goes to the Italian team, Hong Kong's "Zhen Yang" ranks third, and the French team is fourth with a few meters ahead of "Jin Chong". Basically, the pre-match TV broadcast, the analyst's initial analysis, must be that the United States team and the Italian team are ahead, and there is no suspense.
After crossing the Tsing Ma Bridge and the Kap Shui Mun Bridge, enter the Tuen Mun Highway and then go to the western passage to Shenzhen, which is the best place for American, Italian and French drivers to speed up. Limited by size and physical fitness, running in a straight line on the highway is not at all the strength of the Chinese.
Zhang Yuan thought: When we arrive at Songshan Lake, you will know that we are "strong", but I must chase their time, otherwise we are too far behind, and a section of Songshan Lake cannot be chased back in time.
Crossing the Western Passage Bridge and entering the downtown area of Shenzhen, people along the road are calling the same sentence, "Jin Chong come on", the whole team T15 doesn't know, Jin Chong cheerleading, early in the morning in Shenzhen crazy recruitment, many girls like T18's Ah Xing and Zhu Zai, T21 group of stupid leopards also have a lot of fans.
Of course, T15 captain Sam is even more of a heartthrob, and sometimes, his voice is bigger than Zhang Yuan, but fortunately, Zhang Yuan's appearance in a daze has always been a favorite of girl fans. Therefore, the voice of cheering for Zhang Yuan will not be smaller than Sam, and the support rate of Ah Man and George will be much smaller.
Shenzhen is also accessible via the main road, so the top five riders did not change until Merlin closed a section of the slope. The Americans, the French and the Italians, who had already walked more than 80 kilometers from the Hong Kong airport, took advantage of the time to give them enough time and distance to beat off their opponents from other countries, including Africans, Japan and South Koreans.
However, the drivers of the United States, Italy and France did not really get rid of the two teams of "Zhenyang" and "Jinchong" led by Huang Futao and Sam.
Therefore, the first five teams are evenly matched, the last five teams are pulled away by more than 100 meters, and then 30-50 meters behind, there are other seed team riders.
Entering the Minzhi and Longhua areas, because the roads are not very smooth, and the athletes have run more than 100 kilometers, the physical fitness of cyclists has begun to show signs of slowing down, and some even slow down to recover their strength, because the uphill road in Shangmeilin Pass is really unbearable.
The Jinchong T15 drivers who have received special training are at the highest level in terms of physical fitness and condition, and they are definitely not inferior to the emperor "Zhenyang", and from the eyes and mentality of Huang Futao and his brothers and teammates, they all regard "Jinchong" as the best imaginary enemy.
After entering Guanlan, there is a narrower section, and for the American, Italian and French drivers, the narrow and bumpy city road is annoying, and the drivers are driving slowly for fear of accidents, as long as they maintain at least 20 seconds of advantage over the Chinese teams. The beautiful green grass golf course surrounds the finish line of the first day, the best Guanlan golf course in China and its ultra-luxury hotel, and the U.S. team reached the finish line of the first day of the game.
At the end of the first day of the competition, the U.S. team was the first in both the team system and the individual race, and a group of 4 of them were the first to cross the line, and in the individual race: the first was 3.3 seconds faster than the second (all American) drivers; As for the team event: the United States is 10.3 seconds faster than Italy.
American rider Kelvin F. McDonald finished first in the individual race of the day, and tomorrow, Kelvin will be able to race in the yellow jersey given away by the organizers. Kelvin, who has a calm and steady appearance, only then did he show the true temperament of a teenager, and it turned out that he was not yet 15 years old.
The best sprint of the day was from... It turned out to be Hong Kong's Wong Fu Tao, the best sprint time is 4.781 seconds per 100m, what is this number? Do leopards run?
Therefore, Huang Futao will be able to wear the camouflage pink suit of the fastest sprint runner tomorrow, and the "Zhenyang" to which the beautiful girl belongs, finally stands out and ranks eighth in the women's group, Zhang Yuan is looking at the list displayed by the LCD screen on the electronic bulletin board, Maggie Wang, Julia Zhang, Ruby Cen and Suzy Cai, which one is a beautiful girl?
"I've never met such a guy with developed limbs and a love idiot, haha!" , from He Xiaohua's voice...
Readers, let's stop looking at this idiot... Back to the topic - what happens after the first day of the Seven Cities Bike Race in the Pearl River Delta.
The other seed teams were hospitalized by the Guanlan Golf Course Affiliate Hotel, with buffets, spas, separate private rooms and doorman security. Let all participants get the best rest in the best environment and stay in the best condition for the next three days of competition.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, as the head of the representatives of Guangdong Province and won the high expectations of the whole country, the hotel arranged for them to stay in the presidential suite-style Beken, and all the team members lived in luxuriously decorated houses, where they did not have to go out, and the cheerleaders and logistics team members who entered this Beken also had to go through heavy security checks before entering. It turned out that the meeting was underway... Now it's T15's turn for today's post-game review...
Huang Qiang said first: Your performance today is very good, especially Ah Man, you are our flat road sprint king, you are ranked 6th in T15, 0.37 seconds behind Huangfu Tao, 0.093 seconds faster than you usual, as long as you stick close to Sam when going uphill, the physical strength you save can make you become the sprint king on the third day.
George, your average is also about 2.8% higher than usual, which is a big improvement, but your concentration is particularly poor in the three bridges, I know, except for bicycles, you love photography the most, but you have to concentrate to keep up with Zhang Yuan.
As for Zhang Yuan, please don't be too obsessed with a certain girl when you look at it, okay? (Causing everyone to laugh wildly, only Xu Xiaoyan was silent for a moment, and then showed a little smile) Your level today is very high, but there is no breakthrough, you have to learn from Ah Man. I think if you put a picture of a girl in front of your hat, you can dominate the world, and everyone laughs...
Finally, Sam, as the team leader, I have nothing to say, but you concentrate on your brothers, and you yourself have a bit of a problem adjusting the uphill and downhill slopes, so that your Highest Speed Frequency (HSF, the best average) is 13th, and the difference between you and Huang Futao is 0.98 seconds, which is unacceptable, you have to be within 0.5 seconds of Huang Futao in terms of HSF.
In the end, Zhang Yuan's downhill moment is the weakest, and it is also the only situation where he may be overtaken by his opponent and deliberately hit, so everyone should pay attention. The three of you need to remember that you have to use all your protective abilities to protect this infatuated species, which is also the "nerd champion" of our cycling team, understand? This is our business responsibility and the most important goal for us to grow in the future.
You must know that it wasn't that I treated Zhang Yuan very favorably, who told him to pick up an international champion last time and create the emperor, but the three of you are more important, because you are the most important emperor-maker.