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

Before this, there was also a genius who emerged, that is Tadej Pogačar.

He completed his debut with the Emirates Airlines team in the 2019 Tour Down Under and won 13th place.

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

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

He thus became the youngest Tour de France champion since 1904, and became the first player to win the yellow jersey, polka dot jersey, white jersey, and three jerseys in one at the same Tour de France. He was also the first player to win the overall championship in his Tour de France debut since 1983.

In this stage of the competition, Li Ang had left Tadej Pogačar far behind.

According to the current trend, Li Ang's experience is very similar to his, and even more outstanding. After all, Li Ang is younger and just debuted this year. His debut is also the peak.

From the perspective of hard power, Li Ang seems to want to get all four honorary jerseys at the same time, but this is almost an impossible task.

The main reason is the conflict between climbing and sprinting.

If Li Ang tries his best to get the polka dot jersey today, his condition tomorrow will definitely not be as good as those professional sprinters who are paddling today and save all their energy for tomorrow's flat stage.

So even Tadej Pogačar failed to get the green jersey and only completed the achievement of three jerseys.

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

Halfway through the race, Li Ang is like a robot that never knows fatigue. After consuming so much energy in the previous race, he can still maintain the speed of climbing at the beginning when facing the uphill section with the same slope.

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

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

In particular, one of the black players and their captain are competing with the captains of the top teams, and their positions are not lost at all.

If it is said that before the finish line yesterday, there were still many top players who had the hope of catching up with Li Ang, then today, all of them felt despair.

Jonas Wenger, the defending champion of the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023, was quite confused at this time. He didn't understand why the spectators on both sides of the road had already burst into violent cheers before he saw the finish line.

At first, he thought it was the spectators who were cheering for him. After all, it was only two or three kilometers away from the finish line. He finally broke out of the big group under the cover of his teammates and has now started sprinting.

But he soon found that it 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 not appeared in his field of vision for too long and was almost forgotten by him.

Jonas Wenger finally heard clearly that the reason why everyone cheered was because there were already players in front who had reached the finish line.

Recalling that he had just been in the big group, showing off all kinds of operations and bursting his speed, the result was just to compete for the second place.

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

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

And for himself, he also successfully gained 1.5 [limit points].

It doesn't seem like much, but you have to know that this is just one day's gain, and the entire Tour de France lasts for more than 20 days. If all are accumulated, he can get more than 30 [limit-breaking points] in total. 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 rushed directly from the bottom 50% of the previous day to the sixth place. If it weren't for the drag of the first day's results, they could have entered the top three based on the results of the second day.

If the first day's stage champion still has a certain degree of chance and luck, then today's champion is almost completely showing Li Ang's strength.

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

Li Ang's name has also successfully been on the hot search of major portals.

Many cycling bloggers have posted videos to try to get a taste of Li Ang's popularity.

Many people even boldly predict that as long as there are no accidents in the subsequent schedule, Li Ang is very likely to win the overall championship of this Tour de France.

The surge in popularity has even allowed Li Ang's new sports account, which he opened not long ago, to gain more than 50,000 followers in the past two days.

His employees who are professional in operating accounts have become numb. They are all veterans of surfing the Internet, but they have never seen a few people like him who open an account and become popular. The key is that this account has only posted one video.

However, thinking about the achievements of their boss, they are relieved. It is either breaking historical records or winning championships. These things that others may not be able to accomplish in their lifetime, but for him, it is like free, one thing after another.

With such achievements, in fact, they don’t need their operators at all. Even if he doesn’t post a video on his account, he can still gain a large number of fans.

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

Similarly, the huge progress of the Max team has also attracted the attention of many professionals.

Those outsiders who don’t understand the level of their team may think that they did not play their full strength on the first day, and they are better at climbing.

But the coaches and managers of the Max team are aware of the level of their own players.

The improvement of one person’s strength may be accidental, but it is difficult to explain that the strength of all the people in the whole team has been improved.

But when they asked, they all got a unified answer, that is, spiritual power. It was Li Ang's victory that infected them, so they all burst out more of their potential.

Although this statement is quite nonsense, at least Orsad confirmed one thing, that is, no one used contraband, and this is enough. As for the method, he did not go to the bottom of it. As long as the final result is good, the process is not so important.

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

Orsad can probably guess that everyone's rapid progress may have something to do with Li Ang. After all, he himself is the most unreasonable existence.

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

Orsad is also quite clear that Li Ang can have today's strength, and it has nothing to do with him. After the Tour de France, whether he can continue to stay in the team is a question.

After today's race, the teammates of the Max team have long admired Li Ang's unheard-of methods. It can be said that after today's race, Li Ang's position in their hearts has completely surpassed the coach and manager of the team.

Let them win by doing nothing, and now they have to help them improve their performance. This is even more of a father than a father.

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

Wherever he rode, he was the focus of the audience on both sides of the road. The limelight was even not inferior to those of the previous champions. This made Li Ang feel that he was not participating in the competition, but in a parade.

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

He even rode a shocking 123 kilometers per hour in a long downhill on the course, breaking the highest downhill speed in the history of the Tour de France.

Who can stand this? Having just finished a day of mountain racing, not only did the second day's condition not decline, but also broke a historical record.

Similarly, the Max team performed quite well, and the team result jumped to fifth place.

If such a result can be maintained until the end of the race, they can win the team award of the Tour de France. Although the prize money is not much, it is also a very great honor.

In the following days of the race, the audience expected to see Li Ang's limit 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 bright performance to expecting Li Ang to make mistakes in a certain stage.

And now that the race has been going on, the taste of this race has long changed. Li Ang seems to be in a completely different dimension from other riders, and his competitors have become those riders with the best performance in history, or historical records.

When the race exceeded three-quarters, everyone's expectations changed again, because they were about to witness history, witnessing the unprecedented history of one person winning all the stage championships and sweeping all the honorary jerseys.

As the competition progressed, the popularity of Li Ang on the Internet did not decline, but as the day of the competition was getting closer, it became higher and higher. The real climax of popularity may have to wait until the last day, when the total results were released, which pushed him completely to the top.

Time quickly came to the last day of the competition. Today's stage was 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 did not watch the previous competitions because of the long time, also showed up on the day when the final results were decided. Therefore, today's ratings more than doubled compared to the previous ones.

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

Originally, he didn't know about this news, but the news about Li Ang had already broken the circle. He won 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 reported this matter, especially the American media, because this was the second time that an American athlete had achieved such a brilliant result in the Tour de France after Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times in a row 20 years ago.

Not to mention, Lance Armstrong was found to have taken banned drugs in 2012, and all his achievements were cancelled.

Therefore, Li Ang is now the first American cyclist, and he is on the verge of surpassing the first person in history.

The last day of the competition also became a show for Li Ang alone.

Many athletes rode their results within 40 minutes. Jonas Wenger, the defending champion of the previous two sessions, performed exceptionally well and rode a terrifying result of 36 minutes 26 seconds 42, with an average speed of 55.9 kilometers per hour.

This has broken 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 out almost as soon as he started, pulling his speed to 60 kilometers per hour.

This also allowed all the audience to see what kind of energy he could burst out without interference.

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

"Just from the start, he has surpassed everyone who has started so far."

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

"Let's focus on Li Ang. What an amazing speed control! We can see that he can maintain his speed at 60 kilometers per hour, with a fluctuation of no more than 0.5. I have every reason to suspect that he has not yet exerted his full strength."

"Now that 20 kilometers have passed, let's see how long Li Ang has taken."

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