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A guide map to the inside line on U.S. road racing, complete with this year’s players, picks and pans on the North American scene. Basically we’ve got the season all wrapped up, if racing weren’t so damn unpredictable.

Think of it as the Triple Crown training ground of cycling, where the thrill of the race is commensurate with the amount of the wager. Once selected, a choice few students live, train and study at Japan’s Keirin School in hopes of becoming a paid professional.

For a quarter century, France has tried to cultivate a Tour de France winner but only managed to produce a few sour grapes. Homegrown prodigy Remy Di Gregorio may be the vintage for which the French have been pining.

In the language of classic sitcom reruns, John Fahey, the new president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, might be considered the kinder, gentler Andy Taylor to his one-bullet, Barney Fife-like predecessor Dick Pound.

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