"Oh my God, Brother Bao got overtaken right before the finish line—"
"Holy crap! I thought the riders were sent off at three-minute intervals, right? Doesn't that mean that guy's finish time is at least three minutes faster than Brother Bao's?"
"My overall time put me in third, and I was over twenty seconds slower than Brother Bao. This guy's probably three and a half minutes ahead of me!"
...
Over with the Hangcheng Team, coach Liu Jialiang was filled with a mix of emotions after watching the Men's Group A ITT race.
It wasn't that his riders had performed poorly. Far from it.
Aside from the runaway leader, Huang Chong, his team had swept second, third, and fourth place.
But to say they had performed well was a stretch, because the gold medalist's time had absolutely crushed his riders—
From second place all the way down to twentieth, the time gaps between each rider were measured in seconds.
