That was the message on a bumpersticker in the 70's.
The other was Bicycle Racers Have Longer Cranks
Anyway, there's a thread, now very diluted and offf-Topic, going 'round the hpv list to which I subscribe, about how no cyclists nor skiers made the top 100 athletes of the 20th Century.
They thought Eddy should have made it.
I forgot the source of the story
Larry Black