In order to ensure the safety of the runners, the Organizing Committee agreed with the referee, the team leaders decided to shorten the individual opening route from 7.8 km to 6 km.
13 teams with 78 runners started in a row with each team having 1 runner with a time gap of 1 minute between the one who just started and the next.
There are no significant surprises because the runners who are highly appreciated for their individual playing ability in real-time such as Desriac Loic (Bike Life Dong Nai), Mai Nguyen Hung (Anh Van My Association of Ho Chi Minh City), Nguyen Thanh Tam (Gao hat Ngoc Thien An Giang), Huynh Thanh Tung (Military Region 7) all show their abilities.
With a time of 7 minutes and 18 seconds, Desriac Loic surpassed Sarda Javier (7 minutes 29 seconds 68) and Mai Nguyen Hung (7 minutes 33 seconds 50), winning and being honored to wear the first yellow shirt of this year's tournament.
Tomorrow (March 30), the opening ceremony and the 40 km ski stage will take place in Lang Son ( live on HTV Sports).
A new feature of this year's tournament is that the Organizing Committee will test doping for athletes participating in the tournament. This is the first time in the history of the Ho Chi Minh City Television Cycling Cup (HTV) that doping testing has been done on athletes to avoid fraud in competition.
Test samples of athletes will be sent abroad for testing. If they are found to be positive for doping, athletes will be subject to strict penalties in the spirit of the World Anti-Doping Committee.
