Chapter 16 Prestige of Macao
Nine months after the Guangxi Beihai Ring Road Race, Zhang Yuan officially returned to the team to report. The original members of the T18 bicycle return to their base in peace.
The entire staff and riders of the "Best Bike Shop" have started to improve nutrition, fitness and endurance based on sports dietitian Leo's nutritious menu and exercise plan. Of course, after-school yoga classes and psychological counseling will help all staff drivers to feel their efforts and dedication in a new stage and feeling.
Therefore, Zhang Yuan at this stage is in such a fast state. At the same time, physical fitness, spirit, endurance and psychological quality are in an optimal state, which cannot be described with pen and ink, but it is real, from the data shown after training, it shows different qualities and effects.
But the person with such the best performance is not Zhang Yuan but George, everyone can't think of it!
Of course, Zhang Yuan had a big breakthrough, but the best change effect broke out in George. From the inside out, he has shown skills and stamina that can rival Sam, Man and Zhang Yuan, which has made boss Huang Qiang more confident in the future competition.
Finally, the day of Zhang Yuan's comeback came to the first race after ten months of injury, the 150km Tour of Macau Cycling Race.
Because Zhang Yuan has the experience of winning a championship, and the place where he crossed the line to win the championship is Macau, the entire domestic cycling sports community believes that it is the best moment for Zhang Yuan to start again and win the championship.
However, in fact, from Huang Qiang and his wife to Leo, to Sam, George, and Aman (team members), no one denies Zhang Yuan's championship-level strength. Because, after the recovery plan after the injury, especially under Leo's planning, Zhang Yuan's physical and mental performance and state are unprecedentedly good, at least Huang Qiang's family thinks so, his good brother and good opponent Huang Futao, and they feel the same as the feeling of the emperor's return and will come out strongly.
Macau, in the Grand Plaza of The Venetian Hotel on the Cotai Strip in Taipa, more than 1,200 of the best bicycles, the best cyclists, are ready to go. In addition to CCTV and Guangdong television, local media reporters from Macau, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, the United States, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany also gathered here to shoot and report on their national teams.
Today is December 22, 2012, the day of the winter solstice, the sky is fine, the temperature is around 12 to 16 degrees, the wind speed is between 4 and 6, the humidity is between 50 and 55%, a good weather that can definitely set a new record, a group of long-trained, energetic cyclists from all over the world, are fighting for this Tour of Australia road cycling race.
A gunshot sounded, and the T18 match began
(15 minutes ago 15, then 15 minutes later T21 & F Professional Match, 15 minutes later for the Women's Division)
At the beginning, the 80-meter-wide track was indeed exciting, but after 200 meters, it was only 30 meters on the normal track, if the French Mediterranean Monte Carlo was the biggest and most difficult challenge for the drivers, the narrow and difficult gap of the Macau Island Circuit was definitely comparable to the Monte Carlo in France, and the three sea-crossing bridges were used as the competition venue. Therefore, both TV and live audiences can watch the drivers compete from a three-dimensional perspective.
Mountaineering and the pursuit of hairpin bends are Zhang Yuan's best race sections. This section of the road, Guia Bay Hill Road, is also two months later, and the drivers will not be able to achieve good results if they lack a little skill and physical fitness.
In the first 20 kilometers of the 18th race, the leader was Belgium's Peter von, and about 1 meter later, the Dutch driver Mark Murphy. Davis, followed by Zhang Yuan, fourth by Huang Futao, and then by Japanese driver Masashi Saito, all five of them were within 10 meters of each other, competing with each other.
The sixth driver to be left behind was SC Johnson of the United States. Stone, at least 50 meters away, aren't the American drivers always at the top? However, it was a surprise that for the first time, the audience found out that there were no American drivers in the leader.
A few meters behind SC Johnson Stone is the second group of drivers, about 60 people, and more than 100 meters later, there are the remaining 200 or so T18 team drivers competing.
We only focus on the top five drivers, the whole country, are staring at the third place, the most popular talented driver, also known as the wonder boy Zhang Yuan and Hong Kong's Huang Fu Tao, the two of them one after the other, sometimes Huang Fu Tao will be a little earlier, but a moment that Zhang Yuan is back in front, the two of them and the first two drivers, Belgium and the Netherlands, is a little bit of 1 and a half to 2 meters away.
The smart Huang Qiang knew that Zhang Yuan and Huang Futao, the European riders who were waiting for the sprint in front, consumed a lot of energy due to the breaking wind, and the two of them took turns to be the striker to save effort, which is the biggest difference between the talented drivers who cooperate seamlessly and the ordinary talented drivers.
Sure enough, after 30 kilometers, Dutch rider Mark . Davis did overtake Belgian driver Peter von, and soon, Huang Futao also overtook Von Peter. Peter and Zhang Yuan also followed Huang Futao, and chased after Feng in a few seconds. Peter. Japan's Masashi Saito, who ranked fifth, believed that he would not miss this opportunity, and sure enough, he also overtook Feng Peter.
On the downhill section of the Taipa Bridge No. 1, the riders at that time were ranked as follows:
The first place, Mark of the Netherlands. Davis
The second place is Huang Futao from Hong Kong, China
third place, Zhang Yuan, Guangdong, China
fourth place, Masashi Saito of Japan
Fifth, Belgium von Peter ... It's a dramatic 15 seconds...
Back on the Cotai Strip in Taipa, the wide avenue is a place where the strength of the feet is more than the skill, and the clever Huang Fu Tao closely follows Mark. Behind Davis, let Davis break through the airflow. And he, Huang Fu Tao sat on the flat road sprint and effortless stage, and waited for the end of the flat road, and then went up the uphill mountain road of Taipa Island, it was the moment when Huang Fu Tao took his place and became the leader and the emperor.
The story script is executed like Huang Futao's plan, and it is completed step by step... However, when many people on the side of the road were shouting the name of Huang Futao, a genius, at the moment when he was about to go up the slope at the end of the flat road, Zhang Yuan suddenly broke through the two people in front of him at an unimaginable high speed, and was the first to rush up the slope.
Because, going up the slope is Zhang Yuan's strength, he is the dangerous action of increasing the speed and immediately turning the slope when going up the slope, and speeding up at the critical moment to win the first place in Shunjian, this move is really too brave... Here's what the TV commentator reported...
The remaining 30 kilometers of the race have become meaningless for 99% of the participants, because Zhang Yuan is half a meter behind Huang Futao, and Huang Futao is 20 meters after Mark. Davis, almost side by side, but only half a wheel slower is Masashi Saito.
Looking at the other contestants, in theory, basically every contestant has a chance to catch up with the top four, but in reality, your position must be measured by strength, just like the Belgian von von. Peter, his leader in the first 30 kilometers of the race, but von F. Peter, I'm sorry, the eyes of the public can't see you anymore, you... You should compete with the second-round drivers!
Back in the top four drama battles, Huang Futao and Zhang Yuan, two good friends, are also good opponents, and they are competing for the first place.
The section of the hillside is Zhang Yuan's strong point, the distance between the two has opened up a little, about 1 and a half meters away, back to Shek Pai Wan Road, and back to the Cotai Avenue in Taipa, Zhang Yuan and Huang Futao's car distance is already about 3 meters.
The straight road rushed for a moment, and it was Huang Futao's turn to perform, until the No. 3 Macao-Tai Bridge, the two of them once again tied for the first place, depending on the situation, Huang Futao was farther than Zhang, so a few centimeters in front, on the bridge, off the bridge, through Sai Wan Lake into the riverside new street.
After the operation and recuperation, Zhang Yuan showed that he was not inferior to Huang Futao's ability to sprint on the flat road, and the original 10 months of rest and rehabilitation of the wounded did not affect Zhang Yuan's results.
On the contrary, with the cooperation of yoga teachers and nutritionists, Zhang Yuan's physical endurance and explosive power were fully unleashed in this Macau competition, which is the real Zhang Yuan. 16-year-old Zhang Yuan made his comeback for the first time and won the T18 championship of the Macau Cycling Road Race.
At the top of the podium, Zhang Yuan was wearing a yellow shirt and holding a large bottle of French champagne in his left hand. The second place is Huang Futao, he has been laughing heartily, because he has really met the biggest opponent in his life, so he has a goal.
The third is the two, Mark. Davis and Masashi Saito crossed the finish line together.
The four of them are celebrating each other, sharing hard-won joy and public blessings, perhaps, today's photo of the four people on the podium, is the most important bicycle race in the world from now until 10 years from now, these four people are in the bag, four people compete for three places, I don't know if it is funny or cruel, maybe, this is the real world