The 1971 Amstel Gold Race (held Sunday March 28, 1971) was the sixth edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race". It was held in the Dutch provinces of Limburg.
The race stretched 233 kilometres, starting in Heerlen and finishing in Meerssen. There were a total number of 123 competitors, and 47 cyclists actually finished 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)
“This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)