"Oh my goodness!!"
"Look at this Chinese rider's speed on the descent—our national hero, Bettiol, the 2019 Tour of Flanders champion, looks like an amateur in front of him!!"
"Their lines through the downhill corners are completely different. This Chinese rider is unbelievably smooth!!"
"It's simply unimaginable. I'm certain Bora Team came to recon this course with their riders yesterday, but look at this Chinese rider—his performance in every corner makes him seem like a local born and raised in Rivara or Courgne—"
"Oh, mate, what do you mean by that?"
"Because this Chinese rider clearly knows this Italian country road from Milan to Turin better than Bettiol does—"
When the two hosts of Italy's road cycling channel saw the local rider get dropped by Huang Chong on the steep slope during the live broadcast, they had felt nothing but anguish and reluctance.
But after cresting the summit, Huang Chong directly pushed his speed close to 90 km/h on the forest road descent at Prascorsano. Before every corner, he had already selected his line in advance, cutting in from the outside toward the apex with the precision of a scalpel on an operating table, then gliding through the entire bend with a light, flowing lean. The speed and smoothness brought by that elite bike handling left them with nothing but admiration!
Such mastery over the terrain was exactly as they had said—unless someone had been born and raised between those two towns.
Only by traveling this mountain road every day for work, livelihood, or simply getting around could one develop such a profound memory of this complicated, winding route.
Yet Huang Chong was clearly Chinese, and he had only set foot on Italian soil for the first time yesterday. He had been familiar with this road for one day at