Originally Posted by
luxroadie
Have you ever sat with neighbors who think the only way their kids can escape small farm town European life is to listen to that snake charmer?
Believe what Bill Strickland, ESPN and Lance tell you. The world doesn't work like that. The pressure on these kids doesn't work like America.
Nonsense.
Europe is not the third world. Whatever the pressures on aspiring professonal cyclists are they are no different whether they come from the U.S., Europe or Australia.
In fact with third level education either heavily subsidised or free in most European states the chances of upward and outward mobility are probably greater here than in the U.S.