Kazakhstan's tactics were indeed just as Coach Han had predicted.
Or rather, their national tactics had always been open and transparent to the outside world.
Since they possessed the very best strength in all of Asia, and their national team riders basically competed in the UCI WorldTour year-round, participating in Asian races was nothing more than a pure dimensionality-reduction strike.
As everyone knew, the total number of Asian riders who could make it onto UCI WorldTour teams might not even equal Kazakhstan's alone. There were simply very few of them.
That alone was enough to show the true gap between Asian nations and Europe in road cycling.
Yet their country's road cycling level was the only one capable of directly matching Europe's cycling powers.
So their tactics could be this simple and straightforward: in the first half of the race, rely on the sheer strength of their own riders and UCI WorldTour-level speed to wear down every Asian opponent first.
Then, when the hardest climb arrived, launch a fierce attack. No opponent would be able to follow, allowing them to break away successfully.
That was how they had won the previous two Asian Games as well. They had long developed an ingrained habit of winning that way.
The only thing none of Kazakhstan's participants had expected was that China would suddenly produce a rookie rider this year, and from the moment he appeared, he placed enormous pressure on them.
Not only had he forcibly snatched away one of the two Olympic Games qualification spots they had assumed they could easily sweep at the Asian Championships, but at the Asian Games held at the end of the year, he had even beaten their strongest rider in the ITT event—
One had to know that there were only two gold medals in