The 1987 Amstel Gold Race was the 22nd edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 25, 1987 in the Dutch province of Limburg. The race stretched 242 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total number of 163 competitors, with 70 cyclists actually finishing the race.
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“The enquiring fields, courtesies
And tribulations of the air
Be still and give them peace:
The girl in the gold hair
With her young man in clover
In shadow of the day’s glare ...”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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