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I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it’s not going to be satisfying - Greg LeMond

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Is the Sky Falling in Pro Cycling?

As a stubborn and perhaps foolish fan of pro cycling, I’m not ready to throw my bike off a mountainside and take up a daffy habit for weirdos, like running. No: I believe my beautiful but forever-tormented sport simply needs to reboot with better branding—and a new, transparent slogan.

Pro cycling: It’s always *!@#!%!! something!

You know, convert cycling’s chronic weakness into an asset…its sinister cloud into a silver lining…its albatross into a beguiling, Spandexed swan, eating a scone at a table inside your local coffee shop, loudly talking about functional threshold power and wind tunnels with a bunch of other Spandexed swans.

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