Dutch Olympic rider Tom Veeler survived the seventh and the longest day of the 2008 Tour de Qinghai Lake to claim his first stage victory yesterday.
The 23-year-old contributed his first professional victory to the team's tactics, the teamwork and a little bit luck.
Veeler was impressed with the long stage. "It was pretty fast. There were a lot of attacks; then, my legs were a little sleepy because the whole day we rode at the same speed. It was quite hard, a lot of up and down," he said.