While Coach Han was strategizing with Huang Chong for the ITT, the head coach of the Kazakhstan National Team was giving his own star rider, Lutsenko, a briefing on the Chinese cyclist:
"Alexey, that Chinese rider, Huang Chong, is the one who snatched victory from Yevgeniy right at the finish line in the Asian Championships back in June.
His race schedule is the same as yours this time. The China Team has him down for two events as well.
You need to be careful. His performance this year has been absolutely formidable.
I just found out that back in July, while you were at the Tour de France, he won the general classification of a UCI Pro Level stage race: the Tour of Qinghai Lake.
He's around the same age as Yevgeniy, only six months his junior, but his overall strength is certainly no less than Yevgeniy's.
I suspect that after the Asian Games, the China National Team will also send him to the final World Tour race in China: the Tour of Guangxi.
