The men's event proceeded quickly. After all, the number of participants in the Olympics is limited.
It's not like the Tour de France, where every entrant—over a hundred of them—all have to compete.
The men's ITT at the Olympics only had 34 participation slots in total.
And as it turned out, two riders withdrew: Plapp from Australia and Søren Wærenskjold from Norway.
So the entire event was smoothly concluded in just over two hours.
The women's ITT competition followed immediately after. The entire course route, including the distance and so on, was exactly the same as the men's, also requiring a ride over 32.4km of purely flat roads.
Tang Xin, as the sole representative for the China Team, started in a relatively early position based on the ranking from the registration forms.
At Coach Han's invitation, Huang Chong watched the race from the support vehicle, where he was also responsible for communicating with Tang Xin via radio.
