On July 2, the second stage of the Tour de France is about to begin.
Zhang Guan's racing car is still provided by the Belgian Lotto team. The Lotto team even sent Zhang Guan a technician to debug and maintain Zhang Guan's bicycle. For the Belgian lottery, which has more than 50 logistics support personnel, the loss of one or two technical staff has no impact, but for Zhang Guan, it solves an urgent need. After all, the technical support team sent by the Domestic Cycling Association is still on the way. In just one day, it was difficult for Zhang Guan to recruit suitable candidates.
Although a professional kilometer bicycle is worth a lot of money, the Lotto team can still afford it. Being able to let Zhang Guan ride on his own team's car is worth the money. A team like Team Lotto, which is good at building a fan economy, will certainly not miss this opportunity to increase its presence. Team Lotto's official website mall is even planning to have a Chinese version.
Businessmen have a keen sense of smell, and domestic e-commerce companies have to be one step ahead. When they learned that Zhang Guan was riding a Lotto team's car, they had already started to contact the Belgian Lotto team to prepare a "Zhang Guan same model" in For sale on e-commerce platforms, those copycat stores are also beginning to gear up, preparing to make some copycats of the same style to make a lot of money.
As for the competition uniforms, Zhang Guan did not continue to pass on the lottery uniforms. He already had hundreds of millions of dollars in sponsorship contracts, including the world's largest sports brand. The brand's French headquarters rushed to make a set for Zhang Guan overnight. The racing suit was delivered to Zhang Guan.
The racing uniform is of course yellow, symbolizing the yellow leader's jersey that ranks first in the overall score. Only Zhang Guan is eligible to wear it in the race.
According to the rules of the Tour de France, players who own the leader's jersey must wear the leader's jersey to participate in the competition. Players who own multiple jerseys must choose the highest-level jersey among them. The other jerseys will be worn by the second-place finisher.
Although Zhang Guan won four championship jerseys in yesterday's race, he could only wear one of them in the competition. The green jersey, spotted jersey and white jersey will be worn to rank second in sprint points and second in climbing points respectively. and the second-best rookie player. However, the owners of the green jersey, spotted jersey and white jersey still belong to Zhang Guan, and others just play and wear them.
The second stage of the race is a team time trial. This is the only stage in the entire Tour de France that is a team time trial. The total length of the race is only 23 kilometers. For professional racers, it only takes about 25 minutes to complete the race.
The rules of the competition are also different from yesterday. Yesterday, everyone started together, but in the team time trial, the team started as a unit. The nine participating drivers of each team started together, and the starting interval of each team was 7 minutes.
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Cadel Evans looked at the spotted shirt on his body and felt quite uncomfortable.
According to the regulations, the first-placed Zhang Guan naturally had to wear the yellow jersey for the race, and at the same time he had to give up the green jersey, spotted jersey and white jersey. The second-placed Gilbert was also the second and third-placed sprinter. Second in the hill climb points, he will replace Zhang Guanchuan's green jersey.
As for the spotted jersey, the third place in climbing points will continue to be awarded, and Evans happened to be the third place, so he picked up this spotted jersey.
Although the red and white spotted jersey is a bit ugly, it is still a unique leader's jersey, but Evans feels that this spotted jersey is extremely awkward to wear.
Not far away, Gilbert, wearing a green jersey, was taking selfies with his cell phone.
"Hey, your green jersey looks good. The Belgian Lotto also got you a white helmet. Now you look like a Knight of the Round Table!" A rider walked up with a smile.
"This is not my green jersey, this is Zhang Guan's. He got all four jerseys yesterday. One person can't wear so many. I was also lucky and picked up one from the sprint champion. Green jersey! To be honest, my sprinting ability is still far from that of the green jersey!" Gilbert said with a smile. He and Zhang Guan had been temporary teammates for a day, and they had a relatively harmonious relationship with each other, so Zhang Guan was mentioned in the conversation.
However, Evans next to him had a bruised face after hearing this remark.
"No wonder I feel that this red and white spotted shirt is very awkward. It's because of Zhang Guan. This shirt originally belonged to Zhang Guan!" Evans became more and more depressed at this time. He wanted to take off the shirt quickly. He came down and threw it on the ground, and Gilbert's words stung Evans' nerves even more.
"This spotted jersey fell on me because Zhang Guan had too many jerseys to wear. No! It should have been because neither Zhang Guan nor Gilbert could wear it. Then who am I? ?Why do you feel like a rag picker!"
Thinking of this, Evans's heart was filled with panic. The day before yesterday, he had greatly belittled Zhang Guan, and a day later, he wanted to pick up Zhang Guan's rags and wear them on himself!
What made Evans even more depressed was that some of the riders around him came up to congratulate Evans on putting on the spotted jersey, which made Evans even more embarrassed.
"Have you congratulated others for picking up rags?" Evans lowered his head, wishing he could cover his face so that no one could recognize him.
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In the TV station's studio, Schnauer sat with the commentator as a guest.
Schinauer is a Frenchman who won the Tour de France in 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1982, so he is also a four-time winner of the Tour de France.
"In yesterday's race, Zhang Guan won the championship and won four jerseys. After the race, we got the news that Zhang Guan actually participated in the Tour de France as a guest. To be honest, When I first heard the news, I thought it was an April Fool’s Day joke!” the commentator said with a smile.
"It's really embarrassing that the participating drivers lost to the guests. I think all participating drivers will find their place today!" Schnauer continued: "And today is a team time trial, Zhang Guan's body Yellow Cedar will definitely change hands.”
The camera focused on Schinauer and heard him continue: "In the team time trial, the riders of each team start together, so teammates can lead each other's rides to save energy for the leader. And Zhang Guan only has one Man, without the help of his teammates, he will definitely fall behind other drivers in time.”
"So how far behind do you think you will be?" the commentator asked.
"In one minute, I expect Zhang Guan to be one minute behind other drivers." Schnauer said.
"You will be one minute behind at 23 kilometers!" the commentator said in amazement.
"This is the gap between the team and the individual, which is insurmountable in the Tour de France." Schinauer paused and then said: "However, the team time trial does not have sprint points and climbing points, so Zhang Guan can rely on Yesterday’s points still keep the green jersey and the red and white spotted jersey, but Huangshan definitely no longer belongs to Zhang Guan!”
Shinauer said firmly, and the commentator nodded in agreement.
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The second stage starts in Lesal.
"Fortunately, the team time trial is only 23 kilometers." Zhang Guan took a deep breath: "I will try to complete the 23 kilometers within 25 minutes. With my current ability, I can barely do it by riding at full strength for 25 minutes!"
He looked around and saw that every driver was eager to try.
"It's not that easy to take the yellow jersey from me!"
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Thank you for your support. I originally thought that the top two would be very satisfying, but I didn’t expect to be ranked first in the category. There are still six hours left in 2016. I have to ask for a monthly pass to pass the test. If you persist until the end, you will win! Now pass the test and work hard to code, see you in the next update!
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