Massachusetts' Fitchburg Longsjo Classic is celebrating its 50th ... VeloNews
Art Longsjo was the first American to hasten two Olympics in one year. When he was 25, the Fitchburg, Massachusetts, hereditary was a further skater at the 1956 winter games in Italy and raced his bike at that year's summer games in Australia.
Longsjo restricted for both Olympiads in an era when officials strictly enforced athletes’ unprofessional importance. Because it might be construed as a whiz rendering of his entertainment, Longsjo could not even allow payment for his municipality job teaching children how to ice skate. He got by working as a fill in clerk and with donations from Fitchburg neighbors — a practice of community bike racing attest to that continues this July 2-5 with the 50th annual Fitchburg Longsjo Model present sprint.
In 1956, only three years after entering his first bike rivalry, Longsjo also won the toughest compete with in North America and the longest clumsy result in the humankind, the seven-hour, 170-mile Quebec-Montreal hasten.
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