There was a trace of anxiety on Prudhom's face, more than an hour had passed, and his car had driven more than fifty kilometers, and he still hadn't seen Zhang Guan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ahead you can already see the laggards, not because they were slow, but because they were in an accident on the way, which caused them to fall behind the big group.

Riding a 50-kilometer bike is very tiring, and I believe that the vast majority of people do not have the experience of riding a 50-kilometer bicycle in a row, let alone riding 50 kilometers in more than an hour. Prudhomme felt that Zhang Guan couldn't ride so far, after all, he was a guest, not a competitor, so he still had to work as hard as a rider all the way?

"I don't think it's really an accident! That's a big problem! Prudhomme picked up his phone and dialed the head of the tournament's security department.

"Mr. President, what instructions do you have?" The sound on the other side is a little noisy, it should be outdoors.

"We're in trouble!" Prudhomme spoke: "We have lost the crown! ”

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On the western coast of the Vendée department in France there is a place called Leibre Dolonne. It is 63 kilometres from the Guwa Causeway, the starting point of the Tour de France. It is also a place where the audience gathers.

The guests all got off the bus here and began to interact with the fans, and the reporters followed closely, but this time, there were already reporters looking for Zhang Guan.

Of the ten guests, nine of them have photos, but Zhang Guan has no photos, so of course reporters will look for him.

However, the reporter soon found out that Zhang Guan did not appear.

"Zhang Guan is not here!"

"What about Zhang Guanren? The other nine guests are here, why is there no Zhang Guan? ”

"Let's go, let's ask the organizers, where is Zhang Guan! Didn't you say that it was ten guests? Now that there is one less, we won't be able to deal with the editor-in-chief when we go back! ”

The three reporters discussed it and walked towards the tent of the Tour de France.

As soon as I walked to the door of the tent, I heard the person inside talking on the phone.

"We have all looked for it, but we didn't see Zhang Guan in Leible-Dolona, and we asked the people here, and they all said they didn't see Zhang Guan."

"Okay, let's send someone to the suburbs to inquire, a big living person, still wearing a racing suit, such a conspicuous dress, how can he say that he will lose it!"

The reporters outside the tent glanced at each other, and they all sensed that they had caught a big piece of news this time.

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Nearly two hours into the race and the 72-kilometre mark, some of the runners were already picking up to grab the sprint spot in the stage.

The Tour de France has a green jersey, second only to the Douglas cedar, and only the runner who wins the first sprint points is eligible to wear the green jersey, and there is also a significant prize money for the runner who wins the green jersey. So in order to compete for this honor, many players will compete for sprint points.

There are two ways to earn sprint points, one is to cross the finish line and the other is to cross the stage sprint point. The 15 people who cross the finish line or the sprint point of the stage first will receive different rush points according to their results.

For example, in the flat stage, the first runner to cross the finish line will receive 45 sprint points, while the hilly stage will only have 30 points, and the first sprint point in the alpine stage and individual time trial stage will only have 20 points, and the next 14 runners will decrease in turn.

The first player to cross the sprint point of the stage can get 20 points, the second place has 17 points, the third place has 15 points, and the fifteenth person who crosses the sprint point has only 1 point. The players who come after them don't have any points.

In the previous years of the Tour de France, the sprint points were only given to the top three, and the points were only 6 points, 4 points and 2 points, respectively, when the final sprint points of the flat stage were 35 points, so the 6 points of the sprint points were too little, almost could not affect the final overall situation, which also made many excellent riders not to fight the sprint point, but to retain physical strength in the final sprint, which led to the lack of spectacle of the race. So at that time, it was also common to get both a yellow fir and a green shirt.

So the Tour de France has reformed the points, and 20 points for a sprint point is enough for many sprint riders to fight, and it has become rare for drivers to get both cedar and green jerseys at the same time.

The sprint point of the race was at 87 km, and if the riders wanted to fight for this sprint point, they had to prepare for it almost 10 km in advance, so when the race entered more than 70 km, about 40 riders began to accelerate and prepare to fight for this sprint point.

Under normal circumstances, two of the 9 players in a team will go to the sprint points, and the team's special sprinters will definitely compete for the sprint points, and the main or deputy general will also choose to fight for the sprint points.

Kader Evans is one of them, and although the MBC Racing Team USA has a dedicated sprinter, he can't afford to give up a sprint point as the team's leader. After all, the top fifteen have sprint points, and even if you can't get the first place, it's good to win some points.

At 78 kilometers, the track is clearly divided into two groups, a sprint team of more than 40 people in front, and a large force of 145 people in the back.

At 80 km, the sprint team began to accelerate wildly, and the positions of each other were constantly changing.

Evans stared hard at the car, although in the team of more than 40 people, he was only in the middle of the table, but there were some professional sprinters in front of him, not to mention that there were still four kilometers left from the sprint point, and he still had a chance to rush to the top 15 and get the sprint points.

Evans is a very strong runner after all, and in the next kilometer, he overtook several people in a row, and he is about to enter the points zone.

At this moment, a figure came up from behind, alongside him.

Evans glanced out of the corner of his eye, the logo on the opponent's racing suit was quite familiar to him, the artistic letters "lotto" had accompanied Evans for many years, it was the logo of Evans' old club, the Belgian Lotto team.

"It's a lotto guy! It's really a narrow road! Is it Gilbert? Evans knows that his old team-mate Gilbert is also very good, and although he is not the favorite to win the championship, it is still possible to win the championship once or twice.

However, in the next second, when the other party came to him, Evans saw an unfamiliar face.

"Remember me? I'm Zhang Guan! It's really a narrow road! Zhang Guan turned his head and smiled at Evans.

Evans' mind went blank.

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Prudhomme's car slowed down as he was stopped by a large force.

"I've already caught up with the big army, why haven't I seen Zhang Guan's shadow yet?" Prudhomme became more anxious, and he dialed the security director again.

"No comment, no comment!" On the other end of the phone, the security supervisor shouted before the security supervisor pointed the microphone.

"Hello, Mr. President." The head of security greeted.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with you? Prudhomme asked, a little uneasy.

"There are some questions, those reporters don't know where to get the news, they came to ask me about Zhang Guan!" The head of security said helplessly.

With a "boom" in Prudhomme's mind, he could already imagine what the sports news was going to say tonight.

"How could I be so unlucky! The opening race of the Tour de France lost the guests! (To be continued.) )