The 1968 Amstel Gold Race was the third edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday September 21, 1968 in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg. The race stretched 245 kilometres, with the start in Helmond and the finish in Elsloo. There were a total number of 152 competitors, and 34 cyclists actually finishing the race.
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Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or race:
“If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 9:11.