After the Tour de France ended, the Red Bull Bora Team held a grand celebration banquet in Paris that night before returning to their headquarters in Germany.
Although they failed to win the overall championship in this year's Tour de France and only placed fifth in the team standings, they had still raked it in, thanks to Huang Chong personally winning nearly 300,000 euros in prize money and over two thousand UCI points.
You could say that with Huang Chong's breakout performance this year, the team's strength already gave them a clear edge over Vismar.
As for Quick Step, the Ineos Grenadiers Team, and others, there was simply no comparison.
Of course, because they had performed so well in the Tour de France—on top of their outstanding results in the spring classics, all thanks to Huang Chong—the team's most urgent task now was figuring out how to keep him. He had become their Core Commander, the absolute guarantee of the team's success.
