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Yea, but Big Doopie is considering Olympics in the sport from the pro perspective in the past. And he's right in that it was not a race, unlike the Worlds, of pros on national teams, for which the cycling Worlds coopted the Olympics rainbow colors. The Cold War distorted things in the 80s, however, within the US-Soviet rivalry for the involved countries in cycling-hockey-basketball, when only amateurs competed. At that time, as Big Doopie indicated, the Olympic RR on the Continent was meaningless to pro cycling in comparison to the WCRR. Now things are totally different, however, the WCRR has a different historical legacy for the sport.
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