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A Periodic Table of Professional Cycling

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Do not let your eyes deceive you—this is indeed a periodic chart laying out over 100 of the world's top cycling events by prestige, type, geographic location, and UCI rank. You can even buy it.

But what I'd really like to do here is refine and improve. It's a friggin' huge chart and I'm a) saddled with many toxic opinions (note the ProTour designation for the ToC) and b) a poor copy editor to begin with. So, as cool as I think you'll all find this, I'd really like to hear what you don't like.

I don't know of a more knowledgeable audience than here at the Café, so I feel like this is probably the correct forum. Certainly it'll be nice to have a few voices from continents where these races are actually run. Anything is fair game—choice of abbreviation, race name, chart position, etc.

A commenter at Cyclocosm has already found one quibble (PV vs VoC) and that led me to discover typo #1—Pays Vasco's first edition was run in 1924, not 1911. So already, the 2011 version will be an improvement.