After returning to Germany with the championship from Hungary, Huang Chong was not assigned any races by the team for quite a long time.
Aside from attending team training every day, he was effectively "unemployed" at home, watching the Giro d'Italia with Chen Junyi.
For Huang Chong, this was undoubtedly excellent time to rest. Moreover, he vaguely sensed that when he raced again, the team would entrust him with major responsibilities.
The reason was that during team training, Aldag had already instructed the logistical support group to have him train alongside the main lineup.
The focus of their daily key training sessions was still to serve as lead-out support for the team's core leader, Primož Roglič.
He had been with Bora Team for several months now. Although he and Primož Roglič had trained together during full-team sessions long ago,
strictly speaking, those had merely been collective team training sessions, with every member of the entire squad training together.
He had barely even had the chance to speak with Primož Roglič.
Although a cycling team looked like a small group with only a few dozen people, once one was actually inside it, one realized that even such a small organization had an extremely distinct hierarchy.
For a newcomer like Huang Chong, trying to get close to Primož Roglič right away was completely impossible.
With someone else earning several million euros a year, Huang Chong simply was not qualified to get anywhere near him.
But things were clearly different now. Not only did he need to train alongside Primož Roglič, Vlasov, Hindley, and others were training with them as well, bringing the group to only seven or eight people.
This sort of daily team routine—training in a group alone with the team leader, eating together, and traveling together—undoubtedly sent Huang Chong a