Bicycle Racing
Floyd Landis, of Farmersville won the 2006 Tour de France. The sanctioning body alleges that Landis had abnormal hormone ratios in his system, and engaged in prohibited doping, and intends to strip him of his title. Landis denies engaging in doping and is legally challenging the action.
Pennsylvania hosts the Pro Cycling Tour "Commerce Bank Triple Crown of Cycling" bicycle races each June, with the Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic, the Reading Classic, and the The Philadelphia International Championship Bike Race. The PCT is sanctioned by USA Cycling, the national governing body for cycling in the U.S.
Pennsylvania also hosts the Univest Grand Prix professional bicycle race each year in September, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, the worldwide governing body for cycling. The road race starts and finishes in Souderton, while the criterium is located in Doylestown.
The Lehigh Valley Velodrome annually hosts a USA Cycling Elite Nationals qualifying event.
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Famous quotes containing the words bicycle and/or racing:
“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)