Originally Posted by jrmohan

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There are a lot of hispanic riders from both South America, Central America, and Spain, like Euskatel Euskadi which is essentialy the Basque National team, a region of Spain. The reason there aren't a lot of Asian or African riders on the pro level is that their Pro Continetal teams don't get a lot of European exposure to be picked up by European ProTour teams. Also most of Asia and Africa is too poor to have a large pool of budding high quality cyclists. Although there are several asian pro tour cyclists, they aren't on tour teams, I don't believe. I would like to see more diverstiy, but don't in the coming future because of extreme poverty in Asia and Africa, although, lot's of Hispanic riders, GO CONTADOR!