The 1966 Amstel Gold Race was the first edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 30, 1966 in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg. The race stretched 302 kilometres, with the start in Breda and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total number of 120 competitors, and 30 cyclists actually finishing the race.
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Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or race:
“Don different from those regal Dons!
With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
Who shout and bang and roar and brawl
The Absolute across the hall,”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)