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Unemployment

Just as any professional activity, cycling is also affected by unemployment.
For example, in 1981 the number of professional riders was about 500.

* Spain, which had 115 pro in 1980 had no more than 86 in 1981. 24 were unemployed and 12 others were identified preferred retirement humiliation Francisco Galdos, Pedro Torres, Andres Oliva, Luis Casas, Francisco Giner, Julian Andiano Carlos Ocana, Angel Lopez del Alamo, Jesus Lopez Carril, Javier Elorriaga, Pedro Vilardeau and Sebastian Pozo has her converts in trainer-masseur for the group's Reynolds to stay in the race.

* Belgium had in 1981, 171 professional cyclists with contracts among the 10 Belgian groups formed.

* France, which had 22 new riders were also unemployed professionals: Busolini Patrick Gerard Mace, Jacques Michaud, Anthony Gutierrez and Marc Vasseur, Raymond and Van Tielcke Hernando; last 3, neo-pro had only season to speak French while Regulation imposed a two-year contract because they were hired by foreign teams.
Some fans preferred again, rather than being unemployed as Christian Muselet, Jean-Philippe Pipart, Christian Poirier, Philippe Durel. End of 1979, Serge Beucherie was in a similar case before a second chance by John Gribaldy tense, which allows these old pro to hope ...
Still others prefer to directly convert as Jean-Michel Guerinel ...

Universality

Road cycling has long been dominated by European countries. Among men, Greg LeMond was in 1983, the first non-European world champion. Between 1927 and 2009, only four editions of the worlds road cycling were won by runners from another continent than Europe, Greg LeMond editions of 1983 and 1989 and Lance Armstrong, the 1993 edition both U.S. and Australian Cadel Evans in 2009. Among women, between 1958 and 2007, two U.S. have imposed Audrey McElmury in 1969 and Beth Heiden in 1980, other events being won by Europe.

Even today Europe is the continent that dominated the discipline in terms of both teams that the riders. In 2008 over 18 teams in the ProTour calendar 17 have licenses in Europe, only the Columbia cycling apparel Team is licensed in the United States. At the end of the ProTour 2007, among the first 100 riders that the UCI rankings there are 5 Australians, three Americans and two Colombians, the 90 remaining Europeans (21 Spaniards, 19 Italians, Belgians, 9, 8 Germans, French 7, 7 Netherlands, 4 Russians, 3 Luxembourg, 2 English, 2 Slovenians, a Belarusian, 1 Danish, 1 Lithuanian, 1 Norwegian, 1 Switzerland, 1 Swedish and 1 1 Czech Ukrainian) .
Great names

In 2000, the book edited by the French sports daily L'Equipe, 100 champions to a Century of Sport [19], established a ranking of 100 athletes of the century in any sport, which include Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi, Jacques Anquetil Alfredo Binda and Bernard Hinault.

Cycling, no women included in this ranking.

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