[Congratulations, Host, on claiming your first UCI WorldTour title as a UCI WorldTour rider, and successfully earning 375 (300+40+25+10) UCI points. Converted into basic optimization points, your current total optimization point balance is: 385]
After Huang Chong crossed the line first, the system reward text lit up as usual.
He had no reason to hesitate. He immediately converted all his basic optimization points into 7 watts of power according to the ratio, bringing his FTP to 418 watts.
At that power level, his power-to-weight ratio had reached 6.43, basically enough to compete in the Tour de France and finish it successfully.
Although he was still far from being capable of winning it, he was naturally satisfied to have reached the level of world-class riders so quickly.
There might have been five or six hundred, perhaps even more, UCI WorldTour riders in total, but only 144 riders from the eighteen UCI WorldTour teams—eight per team—could compete in the Tour de France each year.
So merely joining a UCI WorldTour team only meant that one had just entered professional road cycling. The truly difficult hurdle was growing into one of the eight core riders on the team.
Bora Team had two long-established leaders this year in Primož Roglič and Hindley. Huang Chong knew full well that joining them at the Tour de France would be anything but easy.
He had to produce as many eye-catching results as possible in these less important early races before he could gradually enter Aldag's core lineup.
After he crossed the line, Lotto team's young rider Lennert Van Eetvelt soon came across right behind him.
He called Van Eetvelt a young rider because the other man was actually a year younger than him.
After Huang Chong had dropped him in the final 200