The 1969 Amstel Gold Race was the fourth edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 18, 1969 in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg. The race stretched 259 kilometres, with the start in Helmond and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total number of 132 competitors, and 36 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)
“Ye say they all have passed away,
That noble race and brave;
That their light canoes have vanished
From off the crested wave;
That, mid the forests where they roamed,
There rings no hunters’ shout;
But their name is on your waters,
Ye may not wash it out.”
—Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791–1865)