Originally Posted by
ri_us
You are kidding, right? If not, you should really do some research on places like South Africa and Botswana which have decent GDP growth and per capita numbers. Of course they're less wealthy than the US, UK and areas of the EU. But saying that the makes them poor is like saying all cat. 2s suck because they're slower than the riders in the Pro Tour. I won't even touch the danger of making such a generalization out of an entire continent.
No, I'm not kidding. They're both wayyyy down the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...%29_per_capita
Approximately one in three Batswana has HIV, giving Botswana the second highest HIV infection rate in the world after Swaziland.
I seriously doubt cycling is high on their agenda and if it was that would be a problem too.