I practiced in the United States

Pete came up to me with a marker and wanted an autograph very excitedly. ♦♦  ♞♦

But Patrice just glanced at him lightly and ignored him.

If he had seen fans coming to him asking for autographs some time ago, he might have happily signed them.

But ever since he was beaten by Li Ang, he has understood that for a professional athlete, the most important thing is his own strength and the results he can achieve. Everything else is empty and has no use except a waste of energy.

No matter how much you create your personality and favor your fans, it will not be more effective than winning a championship in the end.

Pete was stunned on the spot with some embarrassment, but this is normal, and no one stipulates that if a fan wants an autograph, he must sign it.

He just went up just to try his luck.

But when he turned around and came back, he suddenly found that Patrice had stopped where he had just walked.

"The coach asked you to get ready to go. You will need to register later."

He kept his voice as soft as possible and said to Li Ang.

Although Patrice always looked arrogant in front of others, he really didn't dare to show off when it came to Li Ang.

Competitive sports is the king's way, and it is also equivalent to status.

Li Ang nodded and said with a smile:

"These friends of mine seem to be fans of You, how about you sign autographs for them?"

Patrice suddenly heard that Li Ang's friend was still a fan of his, and he felt a little happy. This at least meant that in their hearts, he was no worse than Li Ang. Now he would be happy to ask him to sign his autograph.

"By the way, there's also the person behind you."

Li Ang pointed at Pete who was following behind.

There was no way, the only signature pen was still in his hand.

At this time, Peter was already stupid. He greeted him happily, and others ignored him. Now Li Ang just said a few words lightly, and Patrice even signed an autograph for him with a smile on his face.

Such a change can only mean one thing, that is, what Li Ang said before is true.

"It's broken, my signed clothes!"

Peter's heart skipped a beat. He went back and tried washing the dress, but he couldn't completely remove the signature on it, so he gave the dress to his mother to use as a rag, not knowing if it was still there.

If Li Ang is really the record-breaking genius, then with his talent and future development, he will definitely surpass Patrice.

Little Eric scoffed when he said last time that the signature on the frame could double the value of the car, but now it seems that it is not an exaggeration at all.

Therefore, even if Patrice signs his name on the clothes now, he is far from the joy he felt just now, and is even a little heartbroken.

Of course, no matter how thick-skinned he is, he is too embarrassed to ask Li Ang to sign his autograph now.

"Okay, you continue chatting, I'll go over first."

Li Ang waved to them and followed Patrice back to the big team.

Only then did Peter realize that the clothes exposed under Li Ang's coat seemed to be the uniform of their team, but it was a pity that he only noticed it now.

Eric saw Peter who was in a daze and joked:

"How's it going? There's no loss in this trip, right? I got Li Ang's autograph for you last time, and I got Patrice's autograph this time. Your friends in the club will be jealous of you."

The more he heard Eric say this, the more uncomfortable Peter felt.

"Hey, why did that tourist get into the motorcade?"

"Are you stupid? He is a professional driver. Didn't you see Patrice next to him? I specifically called him back."

"A Chinese professional driver? Or from an intercontinental professional team."

After Li Ang returned to the team, more and more people noticed the only Chinese player in the intercontinental professional team.

Everyone cast curious glances at him.

"This is the first time I've seen a Chinese player in an intercontinental professional team. I don't know how good he is?"

"If you ask me, these Chinese Americans are not good at this sport at all. If you don't believe it, you can look at the contestants in the Tour de France. How many of them can you see with yellow skin?"

"Shh, please keep your voice down, you can't say this kind of thing outside."

Although everyone knows some things, no one dares to publicly express such discriminatory remarks, otherwise it will not be fun to be entangled by those people.

"But he is really handsome! He looks just like those celebrities!"

"It doesn't seem to matter whether you have the strength or not. Just the looks and figure alone are enough to beat them."

"I can't see any blemishes on his face. If it were him, there seems to be nothing unacceptable to Chinese Americans."

"With a figure like that and a professional cyclist, you might not be able to get out of bed, my dear."

Obviously, Li Ang's appearance not only attracted those who specially watched the game, but also made many beautiful women unable to leave his place.

But soon, these spectators discovered that Li Ang's status in the team seemed to be quite unusual. Not only was he standing in the middle of the team, but the team manager kept coming up to talk to him in a pleasant manner.

With such treatment, there is only one possibility, and that is that this Chinese player is likely to be the strength of the team.

Soon, the audience on the other side burst into cheers, and everyone's attention was drawn to it. Only then did they realize that two World Tour professional teams had entered the venue.

These are the top eighteen teams in the world that can get a fixed quota for the Tour de France.

As strong as the United States is, it still does not have a World Tour professional team.

A professional rider who can enter the World Tour team can be regarded as climbing to the top of his career. Going up, he will pursue the results of the three major tours, namely the Tour of France, the Tour of Italy and the Tour of Spain.

In their eyes, they will basically only focus on the teams of the same level as them, of course, there will be exceptions.

For example, now, two riders from these two World Tour professional teams suddenly left the team and walked towards Li Ang's position.

When the Hulk team saw these two coming, their faces were also extremely excited.

These people are the goals they have been practicing hard and eager to achieve or even surpass.

But they didn't expect that these two top players seemed to be rushing to Li Ang.

"I am looking forward to your performance. With your strength, you will not stop here. Maybe the next time we meet will be in the Tour de France."

The person who spoke was Jorgensen from the Movistar team, who was also an American.

However, Li Ang was not familiar with him and just greeted him politely.

Seemingly seeing Li Ang's doubts, Jorgensen also explained:

"Gaviria and I have also challenged the third training track, but we were still a little short of breaking the two-hour mark. I didn't expect you to improve the record so much in one fell swoop. You are really young and formidable."

Although they didn't know whether this result was exaggerated, even if there was some, it would not be too different. After all, he was a player who could be classified as the same level as them.

Because Jorgensen was an American, they were familiar with him. Gaviria next to him was also a big shot. He was the winner of the first World Tour Tour of Guangxi Sprint King.

Now that they heard that these two top drivers had also challenged this track, they finally understood that the record of one hour, 56 minutes and 28 seconds set by Li Ang seemed to be more terrifying than they imagined.

The only thing to be thankful for was that such a player was not their opponent, but their teammate.

In this situation of unity against the outside world, the stronger the teammates, the happier they would be.

Only when the pie was divided later would the competition within the team begin.

Soon, the pre-race opening ceremony began, and Li Ang subconsciously looked at the rostrum, hoping to find a familiar figure.

But unfortunately, there was no one. The level of this Tour of California was quite high, and even the deputy governor of California was present. The others were at the mayor level and the director of the sports bureau level. It was difficult for Sheela to sit on the rostrum with her relationship.

Li Ang was naturally too lazy to listen to their long-winded nonsense, so he closed his eyes and focused his mind on practicing internal skills.

At his current state, he no longer needs to take those special postures to practice some internal skills. With the help of "internal energy", he can practice in any posture as long as he remains still.

Until the opening ceremony was about to end, Li Ang suddenly noticed a dark purple figure walking up to the rostrum.

He looked up and saw that the woman in a dark purple dress was none other than Xila.

She walked to the center of the rostrum and whispered a few words to the middle-aged man in his 50s sitting next to the deputy governor, and then the two of them looked at him in unison.

"Hey, the beauty on the stage seems to be looking at me!"

Patrice proudly puffed up his chest at once, and not only him, but the others in the motorcade also looked up.

The woman in a dark purple dress on the stage was indeed the best among young women, but they could hardly have any improper thoughts. Just looking at her close relationship with the man next to the deputy governor, they could not afford to marry her.

Patrice felt that he was shameless enough, but he didn't expect that there was someone more shameless than him. Li Ang, who was sitting next to him, actually waved in the direction of the stage, as if she really knew him.

Who knew that after Li Ang waved, the woman on the stage also waved in their direction.

"No, do you really know her?"

Patrice's jealousy was almost beyond words.

He got the beautiful Moira in the team, and now there is a more extreme one, which does not conform to his perception of Chinese people at all.

"Any problem?"

Li Ang asked back.

"No problem, I just express my admiration."

Li Ang actually didn't expect that Xila would actually come over. Although she didn't sit directly on the podium, it was obvious that the person who just looked at him with her was most likely her father.

But judging from his micro-expressions, it seems that his attitude towards him is not very good.

Li Ang didn't bother to care. With the attribute panel, he did have the confidence to ignore other people's opinions.

In the last period before the game started, the coach was still emphasizing tactics to them.

"On the first day of the race, we will focus on being cautious and improve our cooperation. At the same time, we will mainly observe the performance of other teams in this race, especially our biggest opponent, the Solo team."

"From the second day of the race, we will officially start to exert our strength. Everyone will focus on Li Ang and try their best to ensure that he can break through the main force."

"There is no need to talk about the individual time trial later. Li Ang can just play freely. In addition, everyone should pay attention."

Soon, the time came to the stage where the race officially started.

There are a total of 17 teams in the race, with a total of more than 80 people participating.

As the starting gun sounded, everyone quickly rushed out of the track. The teams at the front were naturally several World Tour-level teams, and after them, Li Ang's team and the Solo team were on par.

In the first half, almost all the drivers hugged each other as a whole, and everyone was extremely close. Under this arrangement, more drivers will also enjoy the advantage of reduced wind resistance.

This is also the biggest difference between professional and amateur races. In amateur races, not long after the race starts, everyone will be divided into small groups one by one.

Li Ang did not over-exaggerate himself, and his performance was comparable to what he had shown in the team.

Even so, he still thought it was a bit too fast, and he almost broke out of the big group several times.

It was not until halfway through the race that the World Tour riders exerted their strength, and finally some of the ordinary intercontinental team riders could not keep up with the big group, and the whole group was stretched into a long strip.

Even if the wind resistance was smaller behind, they were under great pressure, because the strength of the World Tour-level riders was a level lower than theirs.

When two-thirds of the race was over, only Li Ang, the captain, and Patrice could keep up with the big group, and the other two players in the team had begun to fall behind.

What was surprising was that all five people in the Solo team actually kept up with the pace of the big group, which made the captain feel nervous.

If it weren't for Li Ang's joining this year, their team's overall strength would seem to be lagging behind the Solo team.

"Come on, you two, I'll go to the front to play."

Li Ang left a word and started to accelerate. This speed was really boring for him.

The captain also advised:

"Don't consume too much energy. After all, it's only the first stage. If you perform too well, our team may be targeted later."

Li Ang made an OK gesture and rushed to the front row.

"Oh, we can see that this new Chinese rider seems to have started to exert his strength. He actually rushed to the front row of the team and wanted to break through. We have to sigh at his courage."

The host also followed the explanation at the right time.

There were also many people trying to break through in front, but they were all World Tour riders. Li Ang is currently the first rider from the intercontinental professional team to try to rush to the front.

"It seems that this rider does have some strength. Until now, he still has such abundant physical strength."

"I don't think this is a good decision. After all, this is only the first day of the competition. He is also very excited because he is a newcomer, but it is not good for the subsequent competition."

"I think so too. A player from the intercontinental professional team rushed to the front of a group of World Tour riders. This is undoubtedly a provocation to them. When they show their true strength, I don't know how many of these intercontinental professional team riders can keep up."

Sure enough, when Li Ang rushed to the front, several riders behind him also began to exert their strength. In this chase, the average speed of the group increased by at least two to three kilometers per hour.

At this time, the people of the Solo team also began to fall behind slowly. Only their team captain and another newly joined talented rider could keep up.

The captain of Li Ang's team also brightened his eyes. In this way, the players who fell behind had the opportunity to surpass these players who fell behind.

Gaviria, who had won the title of sprint king, gradually became solemn.

He had just led the team to catch up with Li Ang who wanted to break through several times, but every time they tried to catch up, Li Ang seemed to be able to burst out at a higher speed.

So far, he has almost exerted 90% of his strength, but Li Ang next to him still seems to be calm and composed.

He felt that he had already thought highly of this newcomer, but now it seems that it is not enough.

It was not until everyone started to sprint at the finish line that he realized that Li Ang did not seem to have exerted all his strength.

Originally, no one would have tried so hard on the first day, but because of Li Ang's presence, everyone exerted their 100% strength.

If a driver from the intercontinental professional team got the first place on the first day of the race, then where would the face of these World Tour drivers be?

But unfortunately, no matter how fast they were, Li Ang would always be a little faster than them. In the end, Li Ang won the first place with a slight advantage.

But even this small lead was enough to make the audience cheer.

It was extremely rare for a Continental professional team rider to win first place ahead of a group of World Tour team riders in this level of competition.

This also made a small number of people who knew the inside story finally confirm that the rumor that had been spread was true, and their team really had joined a rare talent.

Leon's first place result made Pete even more tormented. He wanted to go back and save the sweatshirt that was used as a rag.

Soon, the team's total score came out.

It was a bit regrettable that even though Leon won the first place, their team's comprehensive score was still slightly behind the Solo team.