The 1975 Amstel Gold Race was the tenth edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday March 29, 1975 in the Dutch provinces of Limburg. The race stretched 238 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total number of 138 competitors, and 35 cyclists actually finishing the race.
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Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or race:
“He took the gold from them, formed it in a mold, and cast an image of a calf; and they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!””
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:4.
“Ah, little road, brown as my race is brown,
Your trodden beauty like our trodden pride,
Dust of the dust, they must not bruise you down.
Rise to one brimming golden, spilling cry!”
—Helene Johnson (b. 1907)