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Few sports, aside from crown green bowling perhaps, can boast the number of participants in their mid-thirties who can remain competitive against athletes half their age.

No fewer than seven riders in the current pro peloton will be turning 39 by the end of the 2010 season, meaning that they were all born in 1971.

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