The 2001 Amstel Gold Race was the 36th edition of the annual road bicycle race "Amstel Gold Race", held on Sunday April 28, 2001 in the Limburg province, The Netherlands. The race stretched 257 kilometres, with the start and finish in Maastricht. There were a total number of 190 competitors, with 37 of them actually finishing the race.
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Or one man who, for us, is greater than they.
On his gold horse striding, like a conjured beast,
Miraculous in its panache and swish?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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