Hearing Huang Chong's confident reply, the team director was at a loss for words.
If the cyclist assignments and overall race strategy hadn't been predetermined by Aldag, he would be seriously questioning his own qualifications as a team director.
Huang Chong's form was simply too good, and his individual ability was nothing like that of a rookie.
Assigning a GC Cyclist of this caliber to be a domestique was an absolute travesty!
So, after receiving Huang Chong's definitive answer, he decided he wouldn't follow Aldag's overly conservative and rigid plan.
Besides, Aldag had already given him permission to make tactical adjustments during the race based on the cyclists' real-time condition.
Since both Adrià and Zwiehoff had been dropped by their own support rider on the climb, it was only natural for him to back the cyclist in better form and let him keep going.
Otherwise, he, the team director, would look utterly incompetent and unable to adapt to the situation.
