Originally Posted by
ElJamoquio
You may be surprised to hear this, your dukiness, but Belgians have put an inordinate amount of their population into professional cycling. In fact, one of the better cyclists of all time was Belgian.
You took humor and slaughtered it. My response was to the guy who said that they basically just now got the Spanish population out and cycling; he apparently failed to realize or understand that the Spanish, just like the Belgians, have an incredibly rich and old tradition in cycling. And yes, I realize that Merckx, among others, was Belgian.