After finishing his Olympic Games events, Huang Chong stayed in Paris for several more days.
During that time, he mainly gave championship interviews to major domestic media outlets.
His victory in the Olympic road cycling event had made him an unprecedented record-breaker. At the same time, representing his country, he had taken an unprecedentedly huge step toward international standards in the event. Such an achievement was simply too shocking and too important for China.
Reporters from CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, as well as other sports platforms such as Tencent Sports, Migu Sports, Zhibo8, Biketo, Hupu, and nearly every other mainstream outlet, had all conducted dedicated personal interviews with him over the past few days.
As a result, by the time he had finished all his interviews and returned with Chen Junyi to the team headquarters in Germany, several days had already passed since the race ended.
Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe was equally thrilled that he had represented his homeland and won Olympic gold.
After all, having a world champion as the team's leading rider could only benefit its publicity.
So when Huang Chong returned to the team, Ralph Denk, Rolf Aldag, the entire staff, and even executives from Red Bull and Specialized were waiting for him at headquarters.
The team had even specially prepared flowers, confetti cannons, a celebration banquet, and more, giving him an exceptionally grand and respectable welcome.
"Huang, congratulations on winning the gold medal in the Olympic road race. And congratulations to your country as well, for making such an enormous breakthrough in an international competition."
Denk, with his little mustache, was the first to step forward and embrace Huang Chong. Then he teasingly asked with a smile, "You must count as a national hero in your country now, right?"
Huang Chong smiled at his boss's question.