Cultivating through increasing my stats in America Chapter 337 - 210: You’re Better than a Cheater = You Cheate

The week following the race, Li Ang was incredibly busy, even busier than during the competition itself.

So annoyingly, those busy days were either spent collecting awards, giving interviews, or figuring out how to handle the influx of people trying to give him money.

It’s no exaggeration to say that, during this period, the money he spent on legal advice alone had already reached six figures.

But this was not an area where he could afford to cut corners; one misstep could not only an no earnings but could potentially result in a large debt.

Although Li Ang himself was fully capable of spending so ti to gain the expertise of a top lawyer, there was no need to do so. Things that could be bought with money should not take up one’s ti.

If it weren’t for the fact that it was difficult to find a reliable and competent agent on short notice, Li Ang would have preferred to delegate these responsibilities entirely.

After expending so much effort and paying such substantial legal fees, his benefits were that he now had over ten million US Dollars in his bank account, and that wasn’t even all his inco; more would continue to be disbursed in the future.

Li Ang could now truly call himself a "millionaire," and most impressively, he still possessed a continuous and growing earning capacity.

During this ti, everyone was eagerly awaiting another piece of news—the results of Li Ang’s doping tests.

While most people knowledgeable in the field understood that drugs could perhaps enhance performance significantly in the short term, maintaining such impressive athletic performances over twenty plus days would be impossible due to drugs.

If there really were such a drug, Li Ang wouldn’t need to participate in races; by patenting this drug alone, he could beco a billionaire.

However, most of the public lacked this awareness. So believed Li Ang was a genius, while many others were convinced he must have used a large amount of prohibited substances.

Such a scenario would more likely be achievable with so new type of electronic device.

Before this incident, people had indeed attempted to add concealed motors to bicycles, with the first case erging in 2016.

However, it’s quite suspicious that since that one case was discovered, after more than 40,000 bicycles were checked using the magnetic induction tablets provided by the International Cycling Union (UCI), no issues had been found afterward.

Many professionals also believed that the UCI’s subsequent inspections resembled more of a formality, and whether more advanced motors had been invented and used was unknown to anyone.

As a result, although the majority of online opinion supported and praised Li Ang, there were still many skeptics.

Moreover, a few sports bloggers, whether for clout or genuinely doubting Li Ang’s achievents, ticulously analyzed his race videos and concluded that his performance was definitely abnormal.

Such a dramatic improvent and athletic display, especially compared to the Europeans who had long dominated cycling, and even more so compared to the best previous results from Asian cyclists, were absurd. It was reminiscent of the Arican athlete Lance Armstrong who once dominated with seven consecutive victories and was later proven to have used banned substances.

Thus, they boldly speculated that without cheating, such results would be impossible unless Li Ang was not human.

Of course, they had no concrete evidence; their only basis was the implausibility of the logic and so deep-rooted biases.

This line of reasoning also faced significant backlash from many Asian cyclists and cycling enthusiasts, who accused them of racial discrimination, but ironically this helped Li Ang gain a considerable number of Asian fans.

In Arica, there was even less to say; Li Ang, as an Arican cyclist, faced doubts, and the previous incident involving Lance Armstrong was dragged into the discussion, leading Arican cycling communities to launch into a verbal battle online with their European counterparts.

This wave of discussion thrust Li Ang back into a new peak of popularity, driving his managent team ecstatic; they were gaining impressive results almost effortlessly.

Given Li Ang’s exaggeratedly outstanding performance, breaking nurous records, indeed, many people had applied to the International Cycling Union to rigorously test all competitors for banned substances and the bikes used in the races.

The International Cycling Union initially stressed that its magnetic induction tablets were entirely accurate in detecting anomalies in the bikes and were reluctant to carry out more in-depth checks, but the overwhelming number of petitions this ti, coupled with unprecedented public interest, forced their hand; denying further checks would make them appear guilty.

Thus, in the presence of notaries, besides routine doping tests, they had to conduct X-ray scans of the bicycles used by the racers again.

Consequently, many were waiting for the final test results before choosing sides definitively.

Li Ang, of course, couldn’t care less about these matters, nor did he even pay attention; as for his bike, it was just the most common, mass-produced type.