In Competition: Bicycle Races and Sponsored Teams
During the 1986 and 1992 Olympic Games, Batavus was official supplier of the Dutch Cycling Union (KNWU). Monique Knol won a bronze medal during the 1992 Olympics on a Batavus. Leontien van Moorsel won the Tour Feminin twice, riding Batavus bicycles.
In 2008, Batavus was a co-sponsor of P3Transfer-Batavus. Bobbie Traksel rode a Batavus to victory in the 2008 Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen.
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Famous quotes containing the words bicycle, races, sponsored and/or teams:
“Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy—common clay, if you like—eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can’t imagine dead. And then there are the others—the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.”
—Jean Anouilh (1910–1987)
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—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)