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>The evidence thoroughly disproves this comment. I went through the men's results of the track world championships and took note of the various podium finishes for each country up to and including 1983 (CR cut-off limit). Since the team results on the UCI site (www.uci.ch) do not give the individual components of the team, I simply wrote down the country, whereas with the individual riders, I kept track of the number of different names in each discipline. So if one particular 'star' rider repeated, he is given the same value as somebody who had a podium finish once only. (I may have missed or noted a rider twice by mistake, but in general lines the results are the ones stated.) Just as noted in road race results, neither Britain, nor much less so the US, ever produced any appreciable number of World Champions or even podium finishers in the classic era of cycling (as determined by the CR cut-off limit of 1983)
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>I was able to find 3 British professional pursuit podium rider, 2 sprint podium riders and one team pursuit podium team. Among the Juniors, they had one points podium rider and one team sprint podium team. The USA was even less visible with one jr. team podium, Lemond's Jr. pursuit podium and 4 sprint podium finishers prior to WWI.
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