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Chapter 209 Tour de France (5) Final

When Li Ang directly opened up a no-man's land of nearly one thousand meters, the audience present finally realized that this dark horse could not be judged by common sense at all.

Before that, another genius emerged, that was Tadej Pogačar.

He made his debut for the Emirates Team UAE at the 2019 Tour Down Under, finishing 13th.

In the same year, he won the Tour of California and became the youngest champion in a World Tour stage race.

The following year, Tadej Pogačar, born in 98, participated in the Tour de France for the first time and won the 2020 Tour de France overall championship.

He thus became the youngest Tour de France champion since 1904, the first rider to win the yellow jersey, the polka dot jersey and the white jersey in the same Tour de France, and the first rider to win the overall title in his Tour de France debut since 1983.

In this stage of the race, Leon has left Tadej Pogačar far behind.

Judging from the current trend, Li Ang's experience is extremely similar to his, or even more prominent. After all, Li Ang is younger, and he just made his debut this year, and his first performance was already his peak.

Judging from his hard power, Li Ang seems to want to win all four honorary jerseys at the same time, but this is almost an impossible task.

It's mainly about the conflict between climbing and sprinting.

If Li Ang tries his best to win the polka dot jersey today, his condition tomorrow will definitely be worse than those professional sprinters who are paddling today and saving all their energy for tomorrow's flat stage.

So even Tadei Pogacar failed to win the green jersey and only achieved the achievement of winning three jerseys.

As for Li Ang, judging from his performance in today's mountain race, he has made a choice, but this is already remarkable. At least he had briefly won the green jersey in the first stage yesterday.

Halfway through the race, Li Ang was like a robot that never got tired. Having consumed so much energy in the previous races, he was still able to maintain the same climbing speed as at the beginning when facing an uphill section of the same slope.

What is even more commendable is that the other drivers of the Max team, who had never been noticed before, showed no signs of falling behind and always maintained their position firmly in the first group.

You know, even in the World Tour team, many members have been forced to fall behind.

In particular, one of the black team members and their captain were competing with the captains of those top teams and were not inferior to them at all.

If yesterday before the finish line there were still many top players who had hopes of catching up with Li Ang, then today, all they felt was despair.

Jonas Wenger, the defending champion of the Tour de France in 22 and 23, was quite confused at this time. He didn't understand why the spectators on both sides of the road had already burst into loud cheers before he even saw the finish line.

At first he thought it was the spectators cheering for him. After all, there were only two or three kilometers to the finish line. He had finally broken out of the large group under the cover of his teammates and had now started the sprint.

But he soon discovered that this was not the case, because although everyone was cheering, their eyes and attention were not on him.

He suddenly thought of a figure, a figure that had almost been forgotten by him because it had not appeared in his sight for a long time.

Jonas Wenger finally heard clearly that everyone was cheering because a runner ahead had already reached the finish line.

Thinking back to when I was in the big group just now, I showed off all kinds of skills and burst out my speed, but in the end, I just fought for second place.

The momentum that Jonas Wenger had just generated suddenly dissipated a lot.

At the end of the second day's competition, Li Ang won the stage championship again, but this time, he won four honorary jerseys. Although it was only temporary, it was an achievement that countless players dared not imagine.

As for himself, he also successfully gained 1.5 [Limit Breaking Points].

It doesn't seem like much, but you have to know that this is just one day's harvest, and the entire Tour de France lasts more than twenty days. If you add them all up, he can get a total of more than 30 [Limit Breaking Points]. In terms of quantity alone, this even exceeds what he got from the lavender crystal.

And in today's team total score, the Max team jumped directly from the bottom 50% on the previous day to sixth place. If it weren't for the drag of the first day's results, they could have easily been in the top three based on the second day's results alone.

If the first day's stage champion was still a matter of chance and luck, then today's champion almost completely demonstrated Li Ang's strength to the fullest.

I don't know how many team members, coaches and managers were watching the video of Li Ang's game all night to study why he is so strong.

Li Ang's name also successfully became a hot search on major portals.

Many cycling bloggers have posted videos, trying to take advantage of Li Ang's popularity.

Many people even boldly predicted that as long as there are no unexpected events in the remaining races, Li Ang is very likely to win the overall championship of this Tour de France.

The surge in popularity has even resulted in Li Ang's new sports account gaining more than 50,000 followers in the past two days.

The employees under him who are professional in operating the accounts have become numb. All of them can be considered veterans of Internet surfing, but they have never seen anyone like him who opens an account and becomes popular after opening it. The key point is that this account has only posted one video.

However, when they think about the achievements their boss has made, they feel relieved. Either breaking historical records or winning championships, these are things that others may not be able to accomplish in their entire lifetime, but for him, they come one after another as if it were free.

With such achievements, he actually doesn't need their operation at all. Even if he doesn't post a single video on his account, he can still gain a large number of fans.

The role they can play is just icing on the cake.

Likewise, the tremendous progress of the Max team has also attracted the attention of many professionals.

Outsiders who don't know the level of their team might think that they didn't perform to their full potential on the first day and that they are better at climbing.

But the coach and manager of the Max team are aware of the level of their players. The improvement of one person's strength may be an accident, but it is difficult to explain if the strength of everyone in the team has improved.

But when they asked, they all got the same answer, that is, spiritual power. It was Li Ang's championship that infected them, and therefore they all burst out with more of their potential.

Although this statement was quite ridiculous, at least Orsad confirmed one thing, that is, no one used any banned substances. This was enough. As for the method, he did not go into details. As long as the final result was good, the process was not that important.

After all, everyone has achieved such excellent results, and it is not just Li Ang who is in the limelight. As the team manager, he also feels unprecedented treatment in front of his peers.

Orsad could probably guess that everyone's rapid progress might have something to do with Leon. After all, he himself was the most unreasonable existence.

However, he did not ask Li Ang individually, but only praised and thanked him for his excellent performance.

Orsad is also very clear that Li Ang's current strength has nothing to do with him. It is even a question whether he can continue to stay in the team after the Tour de France.

As for Max's teammates, after today's race, they have long admired Li Ang's unprecedented methods. It can be said that after today's race, Li Ang's status in their hearts has completely surpassed that of the team's coach and manager.

Not to mention letting them win without doing anything, now we also have to help them improve their own grades. This is like being a father to them even more than a biological father.

On the morning of the third day, when Li Ang rode his bike to the starting point, he finally experienced the treatment of the top players that he had envied at the beginning.

Wherever he rode, he became the focus of the spectators on both sides of the road. His popularity was even not inferior to those of the previous champions. This made Le Ang feel like he was not participating in a competition, but in a parade.

The third day's competition was still the mountain stage. While everyone was paying attention to whether his condition had declined, Li Ang still rode like he did yesterday, with a performance comparable to that of a no-man's land.

He even rode at an astonishing 123 kilometers per hour on a long downhill slope in the race, breaking the highest downhill speed in the history of the Tour de France.

Who can stand this? I just finished a day of mountain racing, and not only did my condition not decline on the second day, I also broke a historical record.

Likewise, the Max team performed quite well, with the team result jumping to fifth place.

If they can maintain this result until the end of the race, they will be able to win the team award of the Tour de France. Although the prize money is not much, it is also a huge honor.

In the following days of the race, the audience looked forward to seeing Li Ang's limits again and again, and heard the news that he won the stage championship again and again.

This made many people go from expecting a certain player to have a brilliant performance to expecting Li Ang to make a mistake in a certain stage.

By now the competition had already changed its flavor. Li Ang seemed to be in a completely different dimension from the other drivers, and his competitors had become the drivers with the best performance in history, or the historical records.

When the race was more than three quarters over, everyone's expectations changed again, because they were about to witness history, witnessing an unprecedented history of one person winning all the stage championships and taking all the honor jerseys.

As the competition progressed, Li Ang's popularity on the Internet not only did not decline, but it became higher and higher as the end of the competition got closer. The real climax of popularity will probably have to wait until the last day, when the final results are released, which will completely push him to the top.

Time quickly came to the last day of the competition. Today's stage is an individual time trial, starting from the Principality of Monaco and ending in Nice, a total of 34 kilometers.

This day's competition was also the most watched day. Many viewers who had not watched the previous competitions because they were too long showed up on the day when the final results were decided. Therefore, today's ratings more than doubled compared to the previous ones.

At Li Ang's high school, the principal organized all the teachers and students to come to the auditorium to watch Li Ang's last day of competition.

He didn't know the news originally, but Li Ang's news had already spread beyond the circle. With so many single-day championships in a row, the popularity of this matter was no longer limited to the cycling circle.

All major official media outlets are reporting on this incident, especially the American media, because this is the second time that an American athlete has achieved such outstanding results in the Tour de France since Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France title 20 years ago.

Not to mention, Lance Armstrong was found to have taken banned substances in 2012, which resulted in all his achievements being revoked.

Therefore, Li Ang is now undoubtedly the number one cyclist in the United States, and is on the verge of surpassing the number one in history.

The last day of the competition turned into a one-man show for Li Ang.

Many athletes rode their time under 36 minutes. Jonas Wenger, the defending champion of the previous two sessions, performed exceptionally well, with a terrifying time of 26 minutes 42 seconds, with an average speed of 55.9 kilometers per hour.

This broke the fastest race speed of 55.152 kilometers per hour set by Chris Bodner, but he was not excited at all because Li Ang had not yet appeared.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Li Ang burst into action almost as soon as he started, increasing his speed to 60 kilometers per hour.

This also allowed all the audience to see clearly what kind of energy he could unleash without any interference.

"Ward! He must have been a track cyclist before? Did you notice his thigh muscles? It's unbelievable."

"Just from the starting point, he has surpassed everyone who has set out so far."

"I suspect his legs are powered by fuel. Seriously, the organizing committee should check whether there is gasoline in his diet."

"Let's focus on Li Ang. His speed control is truly amazing! We can see that he can actually maintain his speed at 0.5 kilometers per hour, with a fluctuation of no more than . I have every reason to suspect that he has not yet fully exerted his strength."

"We have already passed 20 kilometers. Let's see how long Li Ang takes."

"Oh my god! It's 20 minutes and 37 seconds. His average speed is almost 60 kilometers per hour!"

(End of this chapter)