After the race, when Huang Chong returned to the team bus, the entire staff of the Red Bull Bora Team naturally greeted him with a warm round of applause.
The person standing at the front of the crowd to welcome him was none other than the team's CEO: Ralph Denke.
For a rookie in his first year on the World Tour to win the general classification Yellow Jersey for the team so early on—and never take it off since—to be honest, it felt like a dream to Denke.
After all, the Red Bull Bora Team had originally planned to challenge for the Tour de France by bringing in Primož Roglič.
But as the race had progressed, he gradually came to a blunt realization: the team's Core Commander, Roglič, not only had no hope of winning the title, but even a top-three finish in the general classification would be a tough ask.
