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Artificially Beefing Up Elite Fields: Why?
Both mountain biking and the Verge series have taken steps to allow (read force) lower category riders to race as pro and elites respectively. Mountain bike categories changed this year, which effectively combined the former semi pro category with the pro category. Squirtgunshow (1, 2, 3) has done a great job of pointing out the various follies in the new scheme, so I won’t belabor the point.
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