Steve's excited voice continued on the live broadcast, but at this moment, Huang Chong was so exhausted he could barely keep his bike steady.
Only he knew how he had managed to win this stage.
It was a victory born entirely from cheesy tactics, one he had painstakingly eked out.
If Vingegaard hadn't dragged him along in a frantic chase of Pogačar for the entire stretch after Mary Mountain—
Or if his team leader, Roglič, hadn't been holding things down from behind after Pertu Pass, forcing Vingegaard and Pogačar to burn themselves out leading the pace—
—he never would have had the chance to conserve that last bit of energy for the final 150-meter sprint.
And most importantly, the race committee responsible for designing the stage route had performed a stroke of genius at the 3km-to-go mark.
