For a professional Road Cyclist, whether on a low-level Intercontinental Team or a top-tier World Tour Team, the pressure on a team leader is always enormous.
Admittedly, a team leader earns the highest salary, enjoys the attention and media exposure that comes with great expectations, and has the entire team at their service—
But when the team finds itself in the most difficult situation, when all the domestiques are helpless, the team leader must step up and solve the problem with their own individual ability.
Currently, the pressure on Huang Chong at the Red Bull Bora Team was certainly less intense than that on Vingegaard and Pogačar.
Because he was only one of the team's two co-leaders.
However, he was well aware that the pressure on him at the Tour of Spain was much greater than what he'd faced at the Tour de France.
The reason being, when the team set its roster for the Vuelta a España, the primary goal was for him to win the general classification.
