Kazakhstan's strategy was indeed just as Coach Han had predicted.
Or rather, their national team's strategy had always been transparent to the outside world.
Since they possessed the best talent in all of Asia, with their National Team members competing on the World Tour year-round, wasn't participating in an Asian race just a complete curb-stomp?
It was a well-known fact that the number of cyclists from the rest of Asia combined who could make it onto a World Tour Team was likely fewer than from Kazakhstan alone—a pitifully small number.
This was enough to illustrate the real gap between the various Asian nations and Europe in the sport of road cycling.
And their country was the only one whose road cycling level could go head-to-head with the European powerhouses.
That was why their strategy could be so simple and direct: use the raw strength of their own cyclists to wear down all their Asian rivals with World Tour-level speeds during the first half of the race.
