Quick! I need help on an editorial with a Hemmingway quote

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…for you literary types: Ernest Hemmingway often wrote about his affinity for bicycle racing. In one book or short story he wrote something about prize money “being arranged” in a bicycle race and that the racers were lazy and decided the outcome before the race so as to make it easy on themselves. He wrote something to the effect of them determining the outcome before the race and that the prizes “could be arranged…”.

Do any of you Hemmingway fans remember where he wrote this?

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I did a quick google and liked this quote (its not the one you want, though)

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” ~Ernest Hemingway

So true

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He was probably bought out by the French, and it was then published in l’Equipe…it was a first step to dent Armstrong (Neil of course) credibility
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Start by spelling his name with one “m”. Hemingway.

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Perhaps in the story referenced here:

Hemingway’s love of cycling, especially of the six-day races, is remembered in “The End of an Avocation,” the vignette in A Moveable Feast where following bicycle races replaces gambling on horse races. In the vignette, Hemingway laments never having captured in prose the essence of cycling: “I have started many stories about bicycle racing but have never written one that is as good as the races are both on the indoor and outdoor tracks 10 and on the roads” (MF 64).

Google “hemingway bicycle”…note there’s only one M in Hemingway.

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Its in “The Son Also Rises” start at page 234.

Styrrell

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yep that is right…‘Sun Also Rises’…

ah Hemingway…

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Thank you Shaun…

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I’m something of a fan. I recall reading a short story years ago - my memory is vague on this, by him titled “The Final Sprint”.
It was about a multi-day bike race. I just looked through my collection but I can’t find it now and am questioning my recollection on the matter.

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Hello,

Hemmingway mention bicycle races in quite a few articles. He mentions track racing in “A Moveable Feast” fairly extensively.

Styrrell