Not many people will know anything else about the Tour de France other than the yellow jersey representing the Tour de France. For example, the time runner will be given a yellow jersey, and the best runner will be given a green jersey (pink jersey is used in China). The best rider in the mountain race will receive a polka-dot jersey, sometimes known as the king of the mountain.

Zhang Yuan, he thinks of the red and white polka jersey, but he thinks more about the yellow jersey. Next year, he will officially turn 18 and be able to represent RUSH and EAGLE in the Tour de France, is this a dream? Is it true? Zhang Yuan was looking at the wall of the conference room, a huge poster of the seven-time Tour de France King Armstrong. "Jin Chong", since its opening, this poster has been hanging in the exhibition room of the strongest bicycle shop.

Over the past few days, Yingyang's experts have come to Heping to conduct various tests and physical tests for the riders of "Rush Rush", because they are sending eight drivers to participate in the race this time, Sam, George, Ah Man and Zhang Yuan are bound to be selected, and four more escorts will be added. Those who want to race with the main drivers must have sufficient fitness, experience and obedience.

Therefore, led by Mr. Yang, the chief project leader of Yingyang, and cooperated with Leo, a sports nutritionist, and the Huang couple of "Jinchong", the most suitable other four escort riders were selected in the most fair way from the vast group of "Jinchong" riders and fan groups. Therefore, the competition within the car club is the inevitable screening method.

As the race is open to all guests, drivers, staff and fans of the best single car over the age of 16. So, they gathered all the riders together and came to this 80-kilometer Heping Zone Ring City race first. With the support of the municipal government, on the morning of June 18, 2012, the 80km Elite Race in the Peace Zone began.

Sam, George, Ah Man and Zhang Yuan did not participate in the race, and they teamed up with the veteran Angkor Jr. to analyze and select potential drivers. Therefore, the staff in charge of the selection will definitely have no less workload than the contestants, because they have to select the best drivers to be Sam's escort.

By the way, the Tour de France has special requirements for the participating teams: like other road races, the Tour de France is a team-based competition between the best runners.

When selecting a team's players, the head coach clearly defines the details of each team's division of labor, including:

1. Each team will have a leader who is likely to get the best result, Zhang Yuan is the first choice for "Rush", Sam is the second choice, Ah Man is the second choice, George is the captain of the service escort, and the rest are the team members who combine service (Domestique) and escort.

These service riders are generally riders who are not likely to take an important stage or full course position, and the main force for the results is the lead rider, and the escort is to serve the lead rider, such as water or food from the service car. Most of the time, they open the way for the rider and protect the rear.

In the Tour de France, groups of drivers tend to be close to each other when cruising, forming a peloton, with each escort consciously alternating between the lead striker and the ace driver (the most promising driver and team often control everything in the group through the captain (usually the number one ace driver is the captain).

When the captain (the ace driver of the team) decides to attack, he will suddenly accelerate and break away from the group. When the opponent does not want to be distanced by the hostile convoy, he will send an escort to use his physical strength to accelerate and drive the whole convoy to keep up (chase), or the secondary leader will take the lead horse and paste the opponent's ace card (that is, the attacker), and at the end of the journey, the front duty is exhausted, and then the ace leader will rush out of the camp for the final spur.

Therefore, "Rush" is not like the average team, the average team only has one ace driver, but "Rush" is the three ace cards, plus an all-round George, as the total reserve of the three, such a driver lineup, that opponent is not afraid?

Let's take a look at the "Zhenyang" to which Huang Futao belongs.

Since Boss Cai knew that his sponsor Eagle Yang was going to enter Europe, they put all their bets on the formation of the Tour de France. While both "Jinchong" and "Zhenyang" are deliberately cultivated drivers for the next 10 years, Boss Cai knows that "Zhenyang" has lost nearly half of the championship trophies in recent years, and most of them have been snatched away by the best team "Jinchong".

Frankly speaking, although Boss Cai is very familiar with Leo and Huang Qiang, in the past two years, in many large-scale competitions, "Zhenyang" can only be ranked second. Therefore, Boss Cai also wants to use the Tour de France to press the king status of "Jinchong".

In the summer vacation of early July next year, sponsors from Hong Kong, the United States, Taiwan and Japan each gave a seven-digit Hong Kong dollar sponsorship fee to Boss Cai. Therefore, on the evening of July 2, 2012, at Hong Kong International Airport, a group of more than 30 riders and staff of the "Zhenyang" Bicycle Company (including Suzy, the daughter of Boss Cai), went to Paris, France to watch the Tour de France.

In fact, Huang Futao, including Huang Futao, had already gone to France in mid-June (after the Kyushu Championship) for the purpose of participating in the Tour de France. Since they did not qualify for "Zhen Yang", they competed under the name of a cycling team in Taipei, and the team name was "Ziqiang".

Huang Futao, Meng Jiawei, Xu Kaifeng and Qiu Jianrong all appeared in the team as escorts, and they had to learn to be an excellent protector first, and the person who was protected was now the real king of Taiwan's cycling world - the first international professional rider of the "Ziqiang" Cycling Club, surnamed Zheng and named Jielun.

Age: 23 years old, height 183 cm, weight 69 kg.

Since the age of 12, Cheng has been the only cycling champion in Taiwan to not only be the champion, but also the youngest overall champion in each age group. With 12 years of experience in winning championships, he has a nickname called Bicycle King in Taiwan. Therefore, the cycling club to which he belongs has brought Jeren Zheng into the Tour de France five years ago.

This year, he competed for the first time as the captain of the "Self-improvement" team, and in the first three Tour de France, Jeren Cheng was qualified as an escort to protect their main force, Japanese rider Jun Matsumoto. Last year, in 2012, he qualified as a deputy to Matsumoto, and the final result was even better than Matsumoto's.

Coincidentally, after last year's Tour de France, the Japanese sports brand (Big Rhinoceros) took the initiative to cooperate with the "Kawaguchi" bicycle dwarf club in Yamanashi Prefecture to assist the "Kawaguchi" led by the Japanese king Masashi Saito to participate in the Tour de France.

They first brought in the most experienced Japanese rider of the Tour de France, Jun Matsumoto Ki was the leader of this year's (2012) "Kawaguchi", the 33-year-old Jun Matsumoto knew that his career as a driver was also coming to an end, the boss of "Kawaguchi" promised that after the completion of this year's Tour de France, Jun Matsumoto would give him the position of trainee coach and driver (a very senior and respected profession in Japan, with a good salary), and he would be directly responsible for leading the Saito Masaki brothers, Mitsui and Honjo four. Take part in the Tour de France this year and for years to come.

This year, the little king Masashi Saito will be the escort of Jun Matsumoto as the start of the Tour de France.

In the strongest bicycle shop in Heping County, Huang Qiang is very aware of his friend Cai Sheng's actions, and he also supports Zhenyang's decision. Because, Huang Qiang wants to win the best opponent, only the stronger the opponent, the happier he feels when he wins.

For the Tour de France in 2013 next year, Huang Qiang, as the first team to participate next year, how could he expect to get any championship and a jersey. Huang Qiang conceived that it would take at least three to five years for JIN RUSH to turn his son, Zhang Yuan and Ah Man into a Golden Triangle driver team.

It will be at least five years before they make a harvest on the Ring Law Tournament. In the Tour de France, the competitors are the strongest drivers and the most skilled teams. Frankly speaking, five years later, "Jin Chong" can win a top three place, which is already the biggest news in the Chinese cycling industry.

Huang Qiang did not underestimate the ability of his son and his apprentice, but he understood the history and difficulty of this competition. No one had ever won the first race (except in the first race), and his "rush" was not necessarily the first in the history of cycling to break through the impossible.

But in the next few days, in the conference room of the strongest bicycle shop, there are people from Taiwan's Yingyang, Beijing's Logo Airlines, Huang's Garment Group from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and Dongguan's Fuyuan Footwear Co., Ltd. Discussing next year's sponsorship cooperation and the designated sports brand spokesperson for the Tour de France, he also quoted a sentence from his wife Lin Lili: If you eat salted fish, you must be thirsty!

You have to get the support of sponsors and pay money into your pocket, you have to hand in the best results, and when you are no longer the emperor, you don't have the luxury of expecting someone to pay for your performance, good business society. The most ridiculous thing is that when the sponsors and Huang Qiang and his wife, when all parties are fooling me, everyone still has to be under the lens of the media, making a smile and cooperating.

Everyone is acting, the problem is, I, Huang Qiang, am not a magician, and at the meeting in three days, I can promise the sponsors that I can do it, but what will happen to the results of next year's Tour de France? If we promise but can't do it, our integrity will go bankrupt!

I understand that we are not going to be able to win any of the Tour de France awards next year, and that promise is simply not enough. Thankfully, the two of us are responsible for these troubles, and as long as the children practice according to their progress, they can improve their physical fitness and endurance in a planned way, and then improve their performance in the Tour de France.

Three days later, at 8 o'clock in the morning, Huang Qiang and his wife, Xiao Angkor and others were already preparing the meeting venue. At half past nine in the morning, the meeting began. But around 9 o'clock in the morning, the project leaders of the sponsors have arrived one after another.

In the large conference room of the strongest bicycle shop, before the meeting started, everyone was drinking coffee with water cups or chatting with familiar people, as if there was no pressure, but...