'Well, this is just great. All this bicycling is just taking him farther and farther away.'
'First it was Thailand, then Qinghai, and now it's Europe. Who knows, maybe he'll have to go all the way to America next.'
'Those are all places with completely different time zones.'
Of course, what Liang Xiaomei was really concerned about was this:
How would her son manage, riding his bike in foreign lands where he didn't even speak the language?
...
Dewey, who was waiting at the finish line, immediately saw the update that Huang Chong was trailing Lutsenko by three seconds.
As someone watching the race in person, he was obviously far more nervous than Huang Chong's family was back home in front of their TV.
As time passed, he watched most of the riders who had started earlier cross the finish arch one after another, which only made him more anxious to see Huang Chong's final time.
