Bora Team, the only UCI WorldTour team registered in Germany.
Its full name was Bora-Hansgrohe, taken from the names of its two sponsor brands.
The former was a German kitchen appliance manufacturer, while the latter was a German bathroom fixture manufacturer.
As a reborn man, although all the information Huang Chong had learned about UCI WorldTour teams in his previous life had come from the internet, he had his own plans and reasoning for favoring Bora Team.
First, he knew that starting from the 2024 season, Bora Team's core leader would be Primož Roglič, brought over from Jumbo–Visma Team.
Chinese fans generally called Roglič "Brother Rog," because he was gentle and refined, the dependable big brother of the road cycling world.
The Slovenian rider's strength needed no introduction. He was one of the very best star riders among UCI WorldTour cyclists.
Originally a skier, he later switched to road cycling. He was a late bloomer, yet still became an elite road cyclist with extraordinary achievements.
By now, he had won multiple Vuelta a España overall titles, as well as this year's Giro d'Italia overall title.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, he had also won gold in the road cycling ITT event.
It could be said that the only title missing from Roglič's road cycling career was the Tour de France overall championship.
Huang Chong naturally respected Roglič as well, but he knew very clearly that the latter's best chance to win the Tour de France had actually been the 2020 Tour de France.
That year, Pogačar had only just emerged and was competing in the Tour de France for the first time.
After the first nineteen stages, Roglič was first in the overall standings and held a fifty-seven-second lead over second-place Pogačar.
Unexpectedly, in the final S20 stage—the ITT—he