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How The Race Was Won – Amstel Gold 2013

Posted on 15 April 20134 July 2021 by cosmo

Did a course tweak just work out? Certainly the race-winning move employed the aggression and pluck that had been missing from the (successful) attacks in previous editions. And the cast of characters battling at the front brought some new names and new faces to the fore.

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Also, I could have spent all day riffing on the technical errors in the race video production—bad or absent time checks, cameras missing important attacks, and a 5 minute gap in the production feed covered sloppily by 60fps replays—which, honestly, were of such irrelevant things that I wondered a if the producers had ever seen a bike race before.

But I didn’t do that—the race was too good to short-change.

thoughts on “How The Race Was Won – Amstel Gold 2013”

  1. cgb says:
    15 April 2013 at 5:41 pm

    This is very accurate

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  2. Jeffrey Swainhart says:
    15 April 2013 at 7:25 pm

    Your race commentary is beyond awesome. Always worth a second look. Thanks.

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  3. Kirk Preston says:
    16 April 2013 at 12:12 pm

    Great job as always.

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  4. rainbow says:
    17 April 2013 at 5:06 am

    Its about time Lance(now that he is some what cashed up) bought Paul a genuine Sam Maloof rocking chair in red cherry wood hand signed by the master, circa 1999. This will allow Mr Kimmage to relax in his dotage and reflect on his glory days, past, and future…..

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a headshot of Cosmo Catalano

Best known for his How The Race Was Won® video series, Cosmo Catalano began blogging about pro cycling from a bike shop in 2005. Between then and now, he's designed cycling infographics, built cycling web apps, and supplied cycling content to print and broadcast media, all in the name of backing up his near-endless criticism with proof that it can be done better. He complains about cycling on Twitter at @Cyclocosm.

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