The 1981 Amstel Gold Race was the 16th edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 2, 1981 in the Dutch province of Limburg. The race stretched 237 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total number of 160 competitors, and 60 cyclists actually finishing the race.
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“An inch of gold can not buy an inch of time.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another ... if a man is a scientist, like me, he’ll always say “Publish and be damned.””
—Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)