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- from the Foreword by Federico Buffa
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Coppi and Bartali, Coppi and Bartali. The historic duel par excellence. A challenge that, after World War II, it inflames the hearts of people. A rivalry that wrote the history of cycling, stronger or Gino Fausto? Italy, in search is divided as never before or in the future. And Today, after more than half a century, their myth is more alive than ever.
Bartali and Coppi: SO FAR, SO NEAR
After the Second World War in Italy is the time of reconstruction, the effort of recovery. The country, which still can not afford the car, "ride" up and not only in a metaphorical sense.
and cycling, sport "poor" and therefore accessible to all, to embody the climate of the time and to dream the Italians, who have more need than ever of our own heroes and "daily", to return to discuss sports, of typhus in the bathrobe.
sports heroes who come to the finish line and have destroyed the sad face and suffering of Coppi and Bartali that simple and robust. And, like many fans, have modest origins, and many siblings to feed.
For both samples, and consequently for their fans, the victory sports is the reappearance of the difficulty, given the talent but also to ensure an immense willpower. It runs off road in mud, in grueling stages, risking collapse and fall, bringing in body and mind the memory of war and imprisonment, Coppi, soldier and prisoner of the British in Tunisia, he contracted malaria and he, like to Bartali, a brother died in the running for a fall.
The two biggest Italian riders become so, together, the symbol of rebirth, the best ambassadors and the symbol of a nation in search of redemption.
RIVALS FOREVER
Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi: actors of an unrepeatable. In an individual sport and together as a team is cycling, the duel for excellence have lived, "invented" them. Two extraordinary champions. A duel, a rivalry that, beyond a thousand episodes narrated and written, photographed and passed on - as the famous exchange of the bottle (which is actually a glass bottle) immortalized on the Galibier in the Tour in 1952 by Carlo Martini, photographer Cinecittà scene led to the Gazzetta dello Sport by Joseph Ambrosini - represent the cycling of the heroic times.
Thanks to the timeless and eternal struggle between the champion, their healthy rivalry and sometimes built, millions of people are passionate about the sport of cycling. Thanks mannikin iron and Airone - both instinctive and lover of wine and good food first, as "scientific" in the preparation and the second power - that is always talk of cycling, to their companies and thousands of aspects of human that only the road can tell.
ENEMIES FOR SEVEN YEARS
Between 1935 and 1955, the names of Coppi and Bartali dominate the rolls of gold: 8 Giro d'Italy (3 for 5 for Gino and Fausto), with 39 stage wins (22 Coppi, Bartali 17), 4 Tour de France (two each), seven Milan-San Remo (4 Bartali, Coppi 3), plus other competitions for a total of 124 wins and 122 Ginettaccio dell'Airone. At
Beyond the Tour in 1940, won by the young couple on their captain, the true rivalry between the two begins when the war ended in 1946, and ends in 1953 when Gino is 39 years old and Fausto 34.
After the car accident which occurred in Cermenate that October 1953, while traveling to Lugano to play in the Grand Prix Vanini, Bartali ponders withdrawal. The races run in 1954 should therefore not be considered in the statistical comparison, because Coppi, in turn, is the victim of yet another injury that forced him to give up several races.
Among the most significant races in the epic duel that both passionate about the Italian sports and not only Italian, the Giro d'Italy and Switzerland 1947, the Tour of Tuscany in 1948, the Tour of Italy and the Tour de France in 1949 and many other races starting with the Milan-Sanremo in 1950. He was born there, the myth of the eternal: Gino at 36 wins for the fourth time the "Spring Classic". It is the oldest winner ever.
TOUR OF ITALY OF 1940, THE FIRST CLASH
In 1939, he assist Bartali at the best of his career, but the outbreak of World War II prevented him from running to the Tour of the confirmed re-saving in the World Cup to be held in Varese , the Tour had been beaten by Pierino Favalli, and so, after repeated her success at the Sanremo, at the start of the Giro in 1940, Ginettaccio is again the favorite. In the team
Cycles Legnano but the ds Eberhard Pavesi's alongside the promising Fausto Coppi, professional from the Giro del Piemonte year before. Surprisingly, it is to him that Captain Bartali, victim of a crash caused by a dog, you must give the go-ahead in the 11th stage, the Firenze-Modena. From that moment, in that the Tour of Italy, will be gregarious Coppi Bartali, as the war had been with Bartali in 1936. Just in the village
Abetone, Fausto tears Enrico Mollo wearing the pink jersey then up to Milan.
on the final podium of the race, already deserted by foreign runners, Mollo also rising, according to 2'40 ", Jordan and cooking third at 11'45 ". Bartali ninth closes at 46'09 "behind the winner. A Star Is Born. And with it the greatest rivalry in the history of cycling. For the fans, not just Italians, impossible not to take sides: either bartaliani or coppiani.
COLORS typhoid
The rivalry between the two samples is also one of its supporters: Gino for the "lizards" Cycles of Legnano (from olive-green uniforms), for Fausto's "eagles" of the Bianchi Lazio. And as he struggled the strength of the captains, he also dialectically battle to determine who were the followers of the strongest: the best "bartaliani" John Couriers, Mario Ricci and Virgilio Salimbeni, and the trio formed by Aldo Ronconi, Oreste Conte and Bruno Pasquini, which gave the manforte "coppiani" iron Andrea Carrea and Ettore Milano.
The challenge then lies in technical terms. It covers not only the sponsors, companies producing bicycles, because public opinion is divided on even the best choice of exchange relationships: the best Italian Campagnolo, patented in 1940, chosen by Bartali, or the more modern French Simplex, mounted on several occasions from Coppi? Again, the choices replied to Gino the Pious or sympathy for Fausto to the layman.
At that time, the rivalry between the two samples was also seen as a metaphor for the political and social divisions of the country. With the first elections of the newly created Italian republic, Coppi and Bartali become, sometimes their magrado, the symbol of the main political parties: the Christian Democrats for the Tuscany and Piedmont to the Italian Communist Party. A division of forced and instrumental, and even little relation to reality, since, for example, the two samples and their families had been received by the Pope together
BARTALI STORY
Gino Bartali was born July 18, 1914 in the House of parents, father and mother Giulia Torello Sizzi, at number 78 Via Chiantigiana, Ponte a Ema, Bagno a Ripoli now part of Florence.
third child after her sisters Anita and Natalie, Gino, which ended with the sixth grade, the school, is an apprentice mechanic in the small bike shop Casamonti Oscar, his neighbor, where he met some of the most successful riders of the time and a passion for cycling.
THE BEGINNINGS IN JERSEY SS EAGLE
With the mesh of the SS Eagle Ponte a Ema, from 1931 to 1934, Bartali part in 105 races and won 44: 11 by 33 by student and amateur. The first victory comes Oct. 5, 1931, the circuit Antella. Since 1932 his first great rival is the Prato Aldo Bini. On May 24, 1934 in Grosseto, is involved in a serious fall a few meters from the finish. At the hospital, because of difficulty breathing, it will be practiced a deviation of the nasal septum. In 1934 Tuscan amateur champion.
THE FIRST TO WIN PRO '
Bartali in 1935 in his debut with the team of professionals Ghelfi brothers in Turin, Frejus, headed by Joseph Martano Piedmont. Gino plays a leading role right from the Milan-San Remo, finished fourth and ran by "independent." The organizers of the award a special prize of 500 pounds but did not appease the polemical spirit. At the head after removing Learco Guerra, Gino, he said, had been disturbed to an interview with art on the run from the director of Gazzetta dello Sport, Emilio Colombo, was shot and then beaten in a sprint finish by Giuseppe Olmo, Learco War and Mario Cipriani. In the same year
Bartali won, among the various races, the Portocivitanova-stage in the Tour of Italy L'Aquila (finished in seventh place), the Criterium Nations in Turin, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Cup and the title Bernocchi Italian Championship, at the end of the nine tests, before and Bini Aldo Vasco Bergamaschi.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE CONTINUES
Gino's career, however, is likely to break with the death of 20 year old brother Julius, which occurred June 16, 1936, two days after the incident in San Donato in the downhill, towards Florence, during a competition of amateurs. The joy for the triumph of the Giro di Gino two weeks before had been wiped out. No longer with his brother to share his passion to race cycling Gino did not want to learn more.
Then, Eberhard Pavesi, his ds to wood, Ciaccheri, Peter Linari and other friends help him overcome the difficult time. Gino returned to racing but it is not in condition to the World Cup in Bern, at the Circuit de Bremgarten, is only seventh.
Bartali will resume after this season, winning the great Giro di Lombardia.
1936 AND 1937, THE DOUBLE PINK
early lead in the Giro last year, Bartali won the Tour of Italy in 1936. On the big climbs he won his first duel with Giuseppe Olmo (who won as many as 10 stages), second on the podium in Milan in 2'36 "behind the winner.
In 1937, now captain of wood and a number of Italian cycling, won his second Tour of Italy and is designated groped for winning the Tour de France, won only twice by an Italian, "The giant in 1924 and 1925.
Bartali attaches to the bottom of the Galibier and the stage is in the first Alpine stage of Grenoble where he is wearing the yellow jersey. But the next day, in the stage to Briançon, the fall in the icy river Colau the causes injuries to the ribs and a strong and bronchitis forced him to retire (which will then tell you, they will be imposed by the fascist, while two days later, he was in the first positions to help the neighboring company, also fighting for the yellow jersey).
IL PRIMO TOUR
Nel 1938, per ordine del governo Mussolini, Bartali salta il Giro d’Italia per preparare il Tour de France che vincerà alla grande con 2 vittorie di tappa, a Marsiglia e a Briançon, e restando in giallo dalla 14esima alla 21esima e ultima frazione. A Parigi, Gino arriva con 18’27” sul belga Félicien Vervaecke e 29’26” sul francese Victor Cosson.
L’IMMEDIATO DOPOGUERRA (1945-1947)
Ripresa la carriera nel 1945, Bartali, ormai 31 enne, viene ritenuto un corridore “finito”. Invece, nel 1946 vince il Giro d’Italia su Coppi, passato alla Bianchi, per soli 47”. Non potendo partecipare al Tour de France, precluso agli italiani per the defeat in war, Bartali wins hands the Tour of Switzerland, successfully repeated the following year. In 1947, also won his third Milano-Sanremo and lost a rematch in the Giro d'Italy, donated by couples with 1'43 "on Bartali, second and slowed down by mechanical failure.
TOUR 1948 and close to the Tour in 1948 TOGLIATTI
Gino comes after the troubled start to the season. Lingered from a fall, closes the eighth Giro, abandoned by Coppi in protest against the failure of disqualification Fiorenzo Magni, helped by rising irregular forces cost the Giro Ezio Cecchi.
Alone among the big names who can worthily represent Italy at the Tour (because couples do not Magni was not ready and felt "welcome" in France, for political reasons), Bartali was appointed captain. And as the leader of a "team of four money," so it was defined at the time, the Tuscan centers the greatest triumph of his career. Ten years after the first success in Supo yellow company never succeeded in other runners.
Gino gets 34-year old, entering into legend with the flight over the Alps with whom he won the Cannes-Briançon, with necks Tappone Allos, Vars and Izoard (where her memory is placed in a pillar), and recovers more than 20 ' disadvantage by Louison Bobet. The next day, he also won the Briançon to Aix-Bains, 263 km through the hills of the Galibier Lautaret and the Croix de fer, and wears the yellow jersey.
Gino's success will contribute, in Italy, to brighten the minds, much of which had been overheated by the attack victim Palmiro Togliatti, secretary at the time of PCI. Legend has it that they have been Alcide De Gasperi and Giulio Andreotti Bartali to ask him to call an epic that could ease tensions that could lead the country in serious trouble.
SCANDAL "WORLD" of Valkenburg
The 1948 season ended with the disastrous World of Valkenburg, the Netherlands, where Gino and Fausto, rather than cooperate for the success of blue, left behind aa monitor each other before retiring from the disappointment of the many immigrants Italians came from Belgium. Twenty years after the test Championships in Budapest, when Binda Girardengo and became the war and then retired, the Italian cycling faces another black page.
THE GOLDEN SUNSET (1949-1954)
1949, the year of the first historic Giro-Tour double Coppi, Bartali sees second at 23'47 "in the Giro and 10'55" in France, where, however, plays a role fundamental to the success of rival.
Bartali won in 1950 under the deluge his fourth Milan-San Remo and the Tour in the flood, without Fausto - Primolano that he had fractured his pelvis - and Magni in yellow shirt, order the withdrawal of both teams in Italian after being attacked sustained in racing on the Col d'Auspin.
Fourth Tour in 1951 and 1952, courses like "second" Coppi, Gino, now 38 year old, he won the Italian Championship, his last major title.
In 1953, after having won in 39 years the Tour of Tuscany, is involved in a car accident and is liable to gangrene, amputation of the right leg. After a few months, however, is at the start of the Milan-San Remo, cheered by the crowd.
Lanno later, in Citta di Castello, where during the war had spent several months of displaced persons, protected by local people, closes his career running in a circuit designed for the occasion.
THE
after the race in 1959 Bartali engages in his own team, with the aim of relaunching the declining Coppi. At year end, Fausto invites former rival and his new team-manager in the trip to Upper Volta, which then cost the life of the champion, but Bartali waiver before the new season because he wants to be with his wife Adriana and their children, Andrea, Luigi and Bianca.
In later years, left the cycling, but Florence does not stop to throw darts against the "evils" of his sport: doping, corruption and signings, he said, are too high. In 1991 he was co-host of the satirical TG Striscia la Notizia, which uses it as a catchphrase of his most famous phrases: "He has it all wrong, everything from redo. " Ginettaccio, as it was called allepoca to the polemical nature and volcanic, is off to a heart attack at his home in Florence, May 5, 2000.
COPPI STORY
Fausto Coppi Angelo was born in Castellana, in the province of Alessandria, Sept. 15, 1919 into a family of humble origins. He grew up in Novi Ligure, in the first Memorial Avenue, then on the road to Villa Carla Serravalle, little more than a teenage boy gets a job as a delicatessen. And on a rudimentary bicycle given to him by his uncle, a passion for cycling. In July 1937
dispute his first race, which leaves in half to a puncture. Military
in Tortona, a corporal of the third team of a platoon in a square in the company's orders Bin Fausto, Fausto during World War II was taken prisoner by the British in North Africa, to Cape Bon.
On May 17, 1943 interned at Bab el Megez and then transferred to the concentration camp of Blida, near Algiers.
Healed, perhaps not perfectly malaria, a conflict over Italy going back home by bike. On 22 November 1945, Sestri Ponente, wife Bruna Ciampolini, which will give the first child, Marina. Faustino Coppi of the second child, born from his relationship with Julia Occhini instead. The future "White Lady" is the nickname of the French journalist Pierre Chany, which calls it into an article on stage in Saint-Moritz in the Tour of Italy in 1954, where the then Mrs. Locatelli, wife of a doctor Fausto big fan, wearing a duffle coat clear.
Shortly after the first marriage, Coppi signed by a professional with the cycles Legnano, the first of a long list of teams who see it happen: Bianchi, Carp, Tricofilina (the latter two will match your name) and, at the end of 1959, with former rival Gino Bartali as sports director, the San Pellegrino.
the Tour of Italy in 1940, the first year in pro ', Coppi comes with 3'45 "ahead of Florence and Modena in the stage and takes flight to the pink jersey, which then take you to Milan.
long-distance rider and climber unmatched, Coppi had a great idea in a sprint finish. It also explains so many of its victories came at the end of very long solo breaks. One of the largest, that of 192 km in Cuneo-Pinerolo stage in the Tour of Italy, 1949 (11'52 "lead) to 170 km at the Giro del Veneto (with 8 'on the second) and that of 147 km Milano-Sanremo 1946 (won by 14 'room). Of the 110 biggest hits of
Campionissimo, 53 came for posting. A well-established habit, come to see him alone on the great achievements, which led Mario Ferretti, a singer of heroic cycling commentator, who coined the famous phrase: "A man alone in command, his Biancoceleste shirt is, his name Fausto Coppi.
first to win in the same season, the Giro and the Tour de France, a company focused in 1949 and 1952, Fausto has won 5 editions of the Giro (1940, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953) and as many tours of California (since 1946 to 1949 and 1954) as well as three Milan-Sanremo (1946, 1948, 1949), 2 Grand Prix of Nations (1946, 1947), the Paris-Roubaix (1950) and the Flèche Wallonne (1950) and on the World street (at Lugano '53). Invited
Dallam and colleague Raphael Geminiani for a cycling circuit with an attached hunting in Upper Volta, Coppi and French contract malaria. But while the French disease is diagnosed correctly and treated with quinine, Fausto hospital in Tortona died January 2, 1960. At only 41 years old, still active despite the results not comfort him already for a few seasons, the greatest runner disappears every time.
WERE ITALY
against Coppi Bartali, Coppi Bartali against. It was the rivalry of the cycling world, and one of the most memorable in sports history. Output in the Italian war-torn, businesses, and even the misfortune of Gino and Fausto have entered the collective imagination of the people. And then as now divide the country: bartaliani or coppiani. Impossible not to choose a side. And this is perhaps the most win valuable for two star players who have made history and unforgettable moments.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmal.com 
Coppi and Bartali, Coppi and Bartali. The historic duel par excellence. A challenge that, after World War II, it inflames the hearts of people. A rivalry that wrote the history of cycling, stronger or Gino Fausto? Italy, in search is divided as never before or in the future. And Today, after more than half a century, their myth is more alive than ever.
Bartali and Coppi: SO FAR, SO NEAR
After the Second World War in Italy is the time of reconstruction, the effort of recovery. The country, which still can not afford the car, "ride" up and not only in a metaphorical sense.
and cycling, sport "poor" and therefore accessible to all, to embody the climate of the time and to dream the Italians, who have more need than ever of our own heroes and "daily", to return to discuss sports, of typhus in the bathrobe.
sports heroes who come to the finish line and have destroyed the sad face and suffering of Coppi and Bartali that simple and robust. And, like many fans, have modest origins, and many siblings to feed.
For both samples, and consequently for their fans, the victory sports is the reappearance of the difficulty, given the talent but also to ensure an immense willpower. It runs off road in mud, in grueling stages, risking collapse and fall, bringing in body and mind the memory of war and imprisonment, Coppi, soldier and prisoner of the British in Tunisia, he contracted malaria and he, like to Bartali, a brother died in the running for a fall.
The two biggest Italian riders become so, together, the symbol of rebirth, the best ambassadors and the symbol of a nation in search of redemption.
RIVALS FOREVER
Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi: actors of an unrepeatable. In an individual sport and together as a team is cycling, the duel for excellence have lived, "invented" them. Two extraordinary champions. A duel, a rivalry that, beyond a thousand episodes narrated and written, photographed and passed on - as the famous exchange of the bottle (which is actually a glass bottle) immortalized on the Galibier in the Tour in 1952 by Carlo Martini, photographer Cinecittà scene led to the Gazzetta dello Sport by Joseph Ambrosini - represent the cycling of the heroic times.
Thanks to the timeless and eternal struggle between the champion, their healthy rivalry and sometimes built, millions of people are passionate about the sport of cycling. Thanks mannikin iron and Airone - both instinctive and lover of wine and good food first, as "scientific" in the preparation and the second power - that is always talk of cycling, to their companies and thousands of aspects of human that only the road can tell.
ENEMIES FOR SEVEN YEARS
Between 1935 and 1955, the names of Coppi and Bartali dominate the rolls of gold: 8 Giro d'Italy (3 for 5 for Gino and Fausto), with 39 stage wins (22 Coppi, Bartali 17), 4 Tour de France (two each), seven Milan-San Remo (4 Bartali, Coppi 3), plus other competitions for a total of 124 wins and 122 Ginettaccio dell'Airone. At
Beyond the Tour in 1940, won by the young couple on their captain, the true rivalry between the two begins when the war ended in 1946, and ends in 1953 when Gino is 39 years old and Fausto 34.
After the car accident which occurred in Cermenate that October 1953, while traveling to Lugano to play in the Grand Prix Vanini, Bartali ponders withdrawal. The races run in 1954 should therefore not be considered in the statistical comparison, because Coppi, in turn, is the victim of yet another injury that forced him to give up several races.
Among the most significant races in the epic duel that both passionate about the Italian sports and not only Italian, the Giro d'Italy and Switzerland 1947, the Tour of Tuscany in 1948, the Tour of Italy and the Tour de France in 1949 and many other races starting with the Milan-Sanremo in 1950. He was born there, the myth of the eternal: Gino at 36 wins for the fourth time the "Spring Classic". It is the oldest winner ever.
TOUR OF ITALY OF 1940, THE FIRST CLASH
In 1939, he assist Bartali at the best of his career, but the outbreak of World War II prevented him from running to the Tour of the confirmed re-saving in the World Cup to be held in Varese , the Tour had been beaten by Pierino Favalli, and so, after repeated her success at the Sanremo, at the start of the Giro in 1940, Ginettaccio is again the favorite. In the team
Cycles Legnano but the ds Eberhard Pavesi's alongside the promising Fausto Coppi, professional from the Giro del Piemonte year before. Surprisingly, it is to him that Captain Bartali, victim of a crash caused by a dog, you must give the go-ahead in the 11th stage, the Firenze-Modena. From that moment, in that the Tour of Italy, will be gregarious Coppi Bartali, as the war had been with Bartali in 1936. Just in the village
Abetone, Fausto tears Enrico Mollo wearing the pink jersey then up to Milan.
on the final podium of the race, already deserted by foreign runners, Mollo also rising, according to 2'40 ", Jordan and cooking third at 11'45 ". Bartali ninth closes at 46'09 "behind the winner. A Star Is Born. And with it the greatest rivalry in the history of cycling. For the fans, not just Italians, impossible not to take sides: either bartaliani or coppiani.
COLORS typhoid
The rivalry between the two samples is also one of its supporters: Gino for the "lizards" Cycles of Legnano (from olive-green uniforms), for Fausto's "eagles" of the Bianchi Lazio. And as he struggled the strength of the captains, he also dialectically battle to determine who were the followers of the strongest: the best "bartaliani" John Couriers, Mario Ricci and Virgilio Salimbeni, and the trio formed by Aldo Ronconi, Oreste Conte and Bruno Pasquini, which gave the manforte "coppiani" iron Andrea Carrea and Ettore Milano.
The challenge then lies in technical terms. It covers not only the sponsors, companies producing bicycles, because public opinion is divided on even the best choice of exchange relationships: the best Italian Campagnolo, patented in 1940, chosen by Bartali, or the more modern French Simplex, mounted on several occasions from Coppi? Again, the choices replied to Gino the Pious or sympathy for Fausto to the layman.
At that time, the rivalry between the two samples was also seen as a metaphor for the political and social divisions of the country. With the first elections of the newly created Italian republic, Coppi and Bartali become, sometimes their magrado, the symbol of the main political parties: the Christian Democrats for the Tuscany and Piedmont to the Italian Communist Party. A division of forced and instrumental, and even little relation to reality, since, for example, the two samples and their families had been received by the Pope together
BARTALI STORY
Gino Bartali was born July 18, 1914 in the House of parents, father and mother Giulia Torello Sizzi, at number 78 Via Chiantigiana, Ponte a Ema, Bagno a Ripoli now part of Florence.
third child after her sisters Anita and Natalie, Gino, which ended with the sixth grade, the school, is an apprentice mechanic in the small bike shop Casamonti Oscar, his neighbor, where he met some of the most successful riders of the time and a passion for cycling.
THE BEGINNINGS IN JERSEY SS EAGLE
With the mesh of the SS Eagle Ponte a Ema, from 1931 to 1934, Bartali part in 105 races and won 44: 11 by 33 by student and amateur. The first victory comes Oct. 5, 1931, the circuit Antella. Since 1932 his first great rival is the Prato Aldo Bini. On May 24, 1934 in Grosseto, is involved in a serious fall a few meters from the finish. At the hospital, because of difficulty breathing, it will be practiced a deviation of the nasal septum. In 1934 Tuscan amateur champion.
THE FIRST TO WIN PRO '
Bartali in 1935 in his debut with the team of professionals Ghelfi brothers in Turin, Frejus, headed by Joseph Martano Piedmont. Gino plays a leading role right from the Milan-San Remo, finished fourth and ran by "independent." The organizers of the award a special prize of 500 pounds but did not appease the polemical spirit. At the head after removing Learco Guerra, Gino, he said, had been disturbed to an interview with art on the run from the director of Gazzetta dello Sport, Emilio Colombo, was shot and then beaten in a sprint finish by Giuseppe Olmo, Learco War and Mario Cipriani. In the same year
Bartali won, among the various races, the Portocivitanova-stage in the Tour of Italy L'Aquila (finished in seventh place), the Criterium Nations in Turin, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Cup and the title Bernocchi Italian Championship, at the end of the nine tests, before and Bini Aldo Vasco Bergamaschi.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE CONTINUES
Gino's career, however, is likely to break with the death of 20 year old brother Julius, which occurred June 16, 1936, two days after the incident in San Donato in the downhill, towards Florence, during a competition of amateurs. The joy for the triumph of the Giro di Gino two weeks before had been wiped out. No longer with his brother to share his passion to race cycling Gino did not want to learn more.
Then, Eberhard Pavesi, his ds to wood, Ciaccheri, Peter Linari and other friends help him overcome the difficult time. Gino returned to racing but it is not in condition to the World Cup in Bern, at the Circuit de Bremgarten, is only seventh.
Bartali will resume after this season, winning the great Giro di Lombardia.
1936 AND 1937, THE DOUBLE PINK
early lead in the Giro last year, Bartali won the Tour of Italy in 1936. On the big climbs he won his first duel with Giuseppe Olmo (who won as many as 10 stages), second on the podium in Milan in 2'36 "behind the winner.
In 1937, now captain of wood and a number of Italian cycling, won his second Tour of Italy and is designated groped for winning the Tour de France, won only twice by an Italian, "The giant in 1924 and 1925.
Bartali attaches to the bottom of the Galibier and the stage is in the first Alpine stage of Grenoble where he is wearing the yellow jersey. But the next day, in the stage to Briançon, the fall in the icy river Colau the causes injuries to the ribs and a strong and bronchitis forced him to retire (which will then tell you, they will be imposed by the fascist, while two days later, he was in the first positions to help the neighboring company, also fighting for the yellow jersey).
IL PRIMO TOUR
Nel 1938, per ordine del governo Mussolini, Bartali salta il Giro d’Italia per preparare il Tour de France che vincerà alla grande con 2 vittorie di tappa, a Marsiglia e a Briançon, e restando in giallo dalla 14esima alla 21esima e ultima frazione. A Parigi, Gino arriva con 18’27” sul belga Félicien Vervaecke e 29’26” sul francese Victor Cosson.
L’IMMEDIATO DOPOGUERRA (1945-1947)
Ripresa la carriera nel 1945, Bartali, ormai 31 enne, viene ritenuto un corridore “finito”. Invece, nel 1946 vince il Giro d’Italia su Coppi, passato alla Bianchi, per soli 47”. Non potendo partecipare al Tour de France, precluso agli italiani per the defeat in war, Bartali wins hands the Tour of Switzerland, successfully repeated the following year. In 1947, also won his third Milano-Sanremo and lost a rematch in the Giro d'Italy, donated by couples with 1'43 "on Bartali, second and slowed down by mechanical failure.
TOUR 1948 and close to the Tour in 1948 TOGLIATTI
Gino comes after the troubled start to the season. Lingered from a fall, closes the eighth Giro, abandoned by Coppi in protest against the failure of disqualification Fiorenzo Magni, helped by rising irregular forces cost the Giro Ezio Cecchi.
Alone among the big names who can worthily represent Italy at the Tour (because couples do not Magni was not ready and felt "welcome" in France, for political reasons), Bartali was appointed captain. And as the leader of a "team of four money," so it was defined at the time, the Tuscan centers the greatest triumph of his career. Ten years after the first success in Supo yellow company never succeeded in other runners.
Gino gets 34-year old, entering into legend with the flight over the Alps with whom he won the Cannes-Briançon, with necks Tappone Allos, Vars and Izoard (where her memory is placed in a pillar), and recovers more than 20 ' disadvantage by Louison Bobet. The next day, he also won the Briançon to Aix-Bains, 263 km through the hills of the Galibier Lautaret and the Croix de fer, and wears the yellow jersey.
Gino's success will contribute, in Italy, to brighten the minds, much of which had been overheated by the attack victim Palmiro Togliatti, secretary at the time of PCI. Legend has it that they have been Alcide De Gasperi and Giulio Andreotti Bartali to ask him to call an epic that could ease tensions that could lead the country in serious trouble.
SCANDAL "WORLD" of Valkenburg
The 1948 season ended with the disastrous World of Valkenburg, the Netherlands, where Gino and Fausto, rather than cooperate for the success of blue, left behind aa monitor each other before retiring from the disappointment of the many immigrants Italians came from Belgium. Twenty years after the test Championships in Budapest, when Binda Girardengo and became the war and then retired, the Italian cycling faces another black page.
THE GOLDEN SUNSET (1949-1954)
1949, the year of the first historic Giro-Tour double Coppi, Bartali sees second at 23'47 "in the Giro and 10'55" in France, where, however, plays a role fundamental to the success of rival.
Bartali won in 1950 under the deluge his fourth Milan-San Remo and the Tour in the flood, without Fausto - Primolano that he had fractured his pelvis - and Magni in yellow shirt, order the withdrawal of both teams in Italian after being attacked sustained in racing on the Col d'Auspin.
Fourth Tour in 1951 and 1952, courses like "second" Coppi, Gino, now 38 year old, he won the Italian Championship, his last major title.
In 1953, after having won in 39 years the Tour of Tuscany, is involved in a car accident and is liable to gangrene, amputation of the right leg. After a few months, however, is at the start of the Milan-San Remo, cheered by the crowd.
Lanno later, in Citta di Castello, where during the war had spent several months of displaced persons, protected by local people, closes his career running in a circuit designed for the occasion.
THE
after the race in 1959 Bartali engages in his own team, with the aim of relaunching the declining Coppi. At year end, Fausto invites former rival and his new team-manager in the trip to Upper Volta, which then cost the life of the champion, but Bartali waiver before the new season because he wants to be with his wife Adriana and their children, Andrea, Luigi and Bianca.
In later years, left the cycling, but Florence does not stop to throw darts against the "evils" of his sport: doping, corruption and signings, he said, are too high. In 1991 he was co-host of the satirical TG Striscia la Notizia, which uses it as a catchphrase of his most famous phrases: "He has it all wrong, everything from redo. " Ginettaccio, as it was called allepoca to the polemical nature and volcanic, is off to a heart attack at his home in Florence, May 5, 2000.
COPPI STORY
Fausto Coppi Angelo was born in Castellana, in the province of Alessandria, Sept. 15, 1919 into a family of humble origins. He grew up in Novi Ligure, in the first Memorial Avenue, then on the road to Villa Carla Serravalle, little more than a teenage boy gets a job as a delicatessen. And on a rudimentary bicycle given to him by his uncle, a passion for cycling. In July 1937
dispute his first race, which leaves in half to a puncture. Military
in Tortona, a corporal of the third team of a platoon in a square in the company's orders Bin Fausto, Fausto during World War II was taken prisoner by the British in North Africa, to Cape Bon.
On May 17, 1943 interned at Bab el Megez and then transferred to the concentration camp of Blida, near Algiers.
Healed, perhaps not perfectly malaria, a conflict over Italy going back home by bike. On 22 November 1945, Sestri Ponente, wife Bruna Ciampolini, which will give the first child, Marina. Faustino Coppi of the second child, born from his relationship with Julia Occhini instead. The future "White Lady" is the nickname of the French journalist Pierre Chany, which calls it into an article on stage in Saint-Moritz in the Tour of Italy in 1954, where the then Mrs. Locatelli, wife of a doctor Fausto big fan, wearing a duffle coat clear.
Shortly after the first marriage, Coppi signed by a professional with the cycles Legnano, the first of a long list of teams who see it happen: Bianchi, Carp, Tricofilina (the latter two will match your name) and, at the end of 1959, with former rival Gino Bartali as sports director, the San Pellegrino.
the Tour of Italy in 1940, the first year in pro ', Coppi comes with 3'45 "ahead of Florence and Modena in the stage and takes flight to the pink jersey, which then take you to Milan.
long-distance rider and climber unmatched, Coppi had a great idea in a sprint finish. It also explains so many of its victories came at the end of very long solo breaks. One of the largest, that of 192 km in Cuneo-Pinerolo stage in the Tour of Italy, 1949 (11'52 "lead) to 170 km at the Giro del Veneto (with 8 'on the second) and that of 147 km Milano-Sanremo 1946 (won by 14 'room). Of the 110 biggest hits of
Campionissimo, 53 came for posting. A well-established habit, come to see him alone on the great achievements, which led Mario Ferretti, a singer of heroic cycling commentator, who coined the famous phrase: "A man alone in command, his Biancoceleste shirt is, his name Fausto Coppi.
first to win in the same season, the Giro and the Tour de France, a company focused in 1949 and 1952, Fausto has won 5 editions of the Giro (1940, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953) and as many tours of California (since 1946 to 1949 and 1954) as well as three Milan-Sanremo (1946, 1948, 1949), 2 Grand Prix of Nations (1946, 1947), the Paris-Roubaix (1950) and the Flèche Wallonne (1950) and on the World street (at Lugano '53). Invited
Dallam and colleague Raphael Geminiani for a cycling circuit with an attached hunting in Upper Volta, Coppi and French contract malaria. But while the French disease is diagnosed correctly and treated with quinine, Fausto hospital in Tortona died January 2, 1960. At only 41 years old, still active despite the results not comfort him already for a few seasons, the greatest runner disappears every time.
WERE ITALY
against Coppi Bartali, Coppi Bartali against. It was the rivalry of the cycling world, and one of the most memorable in sports history. Output in the Italian war-torn, businesses, and even the misfortune of Gino and Fausto have entered the collective imagination of the people. And then as now divide the country: bartaliani or coppiani. Impossible not to choose a side. And this is perhaps the most win valuable for two star players who have made history and unforgettable moments.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmal.com
One-seater Isle Of Man
Cunego Italy vs Simoni, the student beating the teacher
with Damiano Cunego Gilberto Simoni as with Coppi Bartali, 64 years later. The student who exceeds the teacher, the herd instinct that promotes road captain and went on to win by dominating the Tour of Italy. Ideal setting for a new, often poisonous rivalry.
2004 was a difficult season for Gibo. Saeco in the house explodes in pink and baby-buster, that year, there is not anyone. Simoni wins stage four Corno alle Scale and wears the pink jersey for four days but, overtaken by a young companion, the end had to settle for another third place overall. Within the team the relationship is not idyllic in the interest of all, after another year of Living Dangerously, the roads will separate the two samples. Forever.
BIRTH OF A RIVALRY
TOUR 2004, direct clash
Under the arch of Corso Venezia in Milan, we celebrate the peace between Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego. The Tour of Italy in 2004 ends with a page from the book Heart. The old king that springs a surprise on the podium and abdicates with dignity, raising the arm of former young squire, his successor as king dell'87esima edition of the Giro.
Kudos to Gibo, then, that on the day the third triumph weblog Saeco puts aside personal acrimony, honoring the golden baby, at 22, is the sixth youngest winner of the Tour behind Coppi, Marchisio, Saronni, Bartali and Balmamion.
The youngster who is inspired by Jim Morrison became a reality and has revived the tale of the herd that, in the street, and a crown of pink captain his childhood dream. The "shot" and click on Furcia almost irreverent Bormio have entitled the company built on the victory of Pontremoli, in the third stage, and consolidated at the seventh, with a Montevergine. The Junior World Championship in Verona
99 wins, the second stake, ahead of the Giro of 2'02 "Ukrainian Serhiy Honchar and 2'05" Simoni. And the angel of the beardless face of Verona is the symbolic image of a handover anything but painless.
CUNEGO STORY
Damiano Cunego was born September 19, 1981 in Cerro Veronese, a village just below Chiesanuova Bosco, and, since childhood - mother Anna Maria's word - "not the type to team sports, is a bit 'individualistic' .
son of Enzo and his older brother (7 years) Donato, Damiano first to play hockey, then football. Since 1995, he attended high school in Verona, and excels in cross country, discipline in which student wins bronze at Italian Championships Crotone 1997. That year, leaves and enters the track and field team cycling Gaiga Bruno Gore Tex, a company where he remained until 1999, his second year as juniors.
The first victory comes at the fifth race, the Gran Premio Memorial Antonella Muraro, Bonaldo Veronetta a race held by former racer Renato Giusti. Students get in 14 hits (and second place in the Italian Championship), from 16 juniors, including the Three Valleys Brescia and Lunigiana: the opportunity for the local newspaper entitled "The Lunigiana has found its Pantani."
Damian is in fact a very good climber, and when, in 1998, won Montecampione, now everyone thinks the Pirate, which on that climb and at the same years, has disconnected the Russian Pavel Tonkov to go to win the Tour of Italy.
Cunego for 1999 is the year of the consecration, the first tip to Blue World Championships in Verona, his hometown, winning gold in the junior category. In 2000, he left the team to go gialloblù amateur with the prestigious green jacket Zalf Euromobil Fior. In two years he won the Bassano-Montegrappa and received numerous placings: above all, the Tour of the Regions and the Giro della Valle d'Aosta. Among men under 23 is imposed in 4 races. It is now ready for the pros', achieved in 2002 at the Saeco ds Claudio Corti.
the first year he won two open races, the Giro d'Oro and Giro del Brenta Middle. Two victories in 2003, but other thickness: a stage and the final tour to Qinghai, China race that sees the blue team at the start of a stage race 25 years after the 1978 Vuelta. Then came the 34th place in his first Tour of Italy. In 2004
wins (and two partial successes), the Giro del Trentino, Giro Apennines (before Gilberto Simoni), and the GP of Larchwood. But above all, he won the Tour of Italy, which has won four stages remaining in fraction rose from seventh to 12th and 16th to Milan. Memorable
arrival at the Sanctuary of Montevergine, where an atypical divided Saeco sprints in front of the group, the perfect tactic to Falzes, where he and his companions Andrea Tonti and Eddy Mazzoleni triggers The brawl on the last climb and then comes the solo, blowing the leader's jersey Ukrainian Yaroslav Popovich, the shot of Boario, where he arrived along with captain Simoni, Cioni and Ukrainian Serhiy Honchar and then cross the finish line with arms raised.
2004, the first "LOMBARDY"
the world in his native Verona, Cunego leads the group with the best after trying an attack on the climb of the Torricelle. And then he closes a truly magical year for dominating the Tour of Lombardy over the Dutch Michael Boogerd and Ivan Basso Varese. With the 13th victory of the season in first place Damiano crosses Paolo Bettini in the international ranking of the UCI. He is the new number one in the cycling world.
2005-2008, his years as Captain
also and especially for the incompatibility with Simoni, Cunego wears the uniform since 2005 Lampre-Caffita, wanted by the new team boss Mario Galbraith (Lampre team) and Sergio Zappella (Saeco) and directed by Giuseppe Saronni and Claudio Corti. At
Romandie, the Little Prince (as he calls his fans) for 2 days as the leader's jersey before selling it in the time trial final. Looks like the omen for a great year, but mononucleosis will haunt him for the rest of the season.
In 2006, enter into partnership with the Lampre Fondital Brescia family Niboli joins Cunego and Marzio Bruseghin, Paolo Tiralongo and Slovenian Taddei Valjavec. Damian won a stage and the final week of the Coppi-Bartali Cycling, repeating and final partial success in the Giro del Trentino and appealing in the GP of Larchwood. On the eve of the Tour of Italy 2006 has 5 wins (and third place in Liege), but his adventure will end up with pink 4th place behind the trio Low-Gutierrez-Simoni, at 6'17 "and from the podium 'former captain.
In his first Tour de France, is the protagonist in the last week, the Alpe d'Huez second place behind Frank Schleck, who off in the last km. In Paris reaches 12 ° 19'19 "behind the winner, then disqualified, Floyd Landis, and showing off the white jersey for best young rider.
For 2007, the leaders agree with Beppe Saronni and Giuseppe Martinelli, Damiano change program. In Trentino, won in a sprint finish in the first portion and the second climb. Check the last two stages, is the first rider to win three times in the race.
the Tour of Italy was fifth at 3'49 "from the leader Danilo Di Luca. To participate in the Vuelta in September in preparation for the World Championships in Stuttgart, where it acts as the perfect wingman for the confirmation of rainbow Paolo Bettini. Damiano
closes with a flourish by winning the GP Beghelli and three years later, his second Tour of Lombardy. In the "Classic of dead leaves" beats the sprint Riccardo Ricco, who was fired with on the San Fermo della Battaglia, 10 km kilometers from the finish. In 2008
skip the Tour of Italy to bet on Tour, Olympics and World Varese. Meanwhile, he won a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country, won the Amstel Gold Race (upping Franck Schleck) and placed third in the Fleche Wallonne.
SIMONI STORY
Gilberto Simoni, Gibo said, was born in Palu of Jupiter (Trento) August 25, 1971. Strong climber gets to the professionals with the stigmata of the sample to have won in 1993, the Tour of Italy amateur national championship and the Giro del Friuli.
Among the pro 'debut the following year, the Jolly. After a season marked by physical problems and family losses in 1997 proposed to his team then, Cantina Tollo, to decrease the salary. Since 1997, the ds is the Mg Giancarlo Ferretti and two years later hits the first hit, a stage of the Giro del Trentino.
Stopped for high hematocrit in the Tour of Portugal, in 1998 Simon ponders retirement, but then changed his mind in the wake of renewed enthusiasm after the eighth place in the Lombardy.
in 1999, is third in the Tour of Switzerland (where he won a stage in Grindelwald) and the Tour of Italy. In the race to history for the disqualification of Marco Pantani after the stage of Madonna di Campiglio, Trentino won the first of his seven podiums in pink arriving at 3'36 "behind winner Ivan Gotti, Pantani with his former rival among amateurs, and just one second behind Paolo Savoldelli.
edition of 2000, Simoni was third again, this time in 1'33 "by Stefano Garzelli and 6" by Francesco Casagrande. As a consolation, Gibo won his first Giro stage: the 14th, from Selva di Val Gardena, Bormio.
the Vuelta is the first step in reaching the top of the terrible climb and Port.
In his first World Plouay, click on the finish but his is a progression rather than an attack, and is canceled by some comrades, who reported under the pursuers.
TOUR 2001 AT LAST FIRST
In 2001, Simoni wins Giro d'Italy at last. But success is overshadowed by the doping of Dario Frigo, its biggest rival, and the raid on the NAS in San Remo.
Gilberto attacks immediately. After trying it in the stage of Montebelluna, grab the pink jersey the next day, on Pordoi, 13th in population, which was won by Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio. Then he defends in the time trial from Sirmione to Salo (dominated by Frigo) and finally settles the decisive blow by winning the solo in the rain at Arona, next to last effort before the catwalk for Milan.
the eve of the 18th stage, the Sant'Anna di Imperia-Vinadio, but the NAS break overnight in the hotel where the caravan pink. The result is the disqualification of Fridge and the next day, the cancellation fraction due to the strike of the runners, kept awake by the checks continued until late at night. Back at the Vuelta
, Simoni beats all in the last uphill finish, the Alto de Abantos. At the World Cup Lisbon batsman plays for free. On the last lap shoot upward. German Ullrich and the other big favorites will mark each other and earn Simoni seconds. A 5 km from the finish, however, is his companion Lanfranchi, which reports on the pursuers. In race after the blue say you have not seen take Gibo, which is reached in just over a km to go. Freire wins the sprint. The controversy lasts all winter, that Simon does not end the Lampre: wills Saeco.
THE DISAPPOINTMENT TO AROUND 2002
2002 Giro, Simoni is favored. Instead Paolo Savoldelli will win the day. Bad start, Gibo is imposed to Campitello Matese, upping Francesco Casagrande, but soon to be found positive for cocaine metabolites (the first reflected back to the Giro del Trentino), and the day after the team convinced him to retire. After granting a positive to a dental surgery, Simoni shows that it was due to the balsamic candy for a sore throat purchased in South America (and containing small amounts of coca, used as an analgesic) and give Him an aunt returned from Peru. Acquitted by the court and reinstated the team, Simoni hatching purposes Redemption at the Giro. The eighth place in the Vuelta is not enough.
THE REDEMPTION OF PINK 2003, 2003
Simoni will start with second place in the Tour of Aragon and the first in the Giro del Trentino. Beaten in a sprint finish by Stefano Garzelli in Moena, Gibo off of the 9 "to Ronzone, where he caught and then kept the lead until the epilogue of Arco di Trento. The victory in the Tour of the Apennines, with the record of climbing the nozzle pitch (21'54 "against the 21'56" of Pantani in 1994), Gilberto is the favorite for the Giro. Garzelli
Parade in the pink jersey in the tenth stage, Simoni consolidates the record, winning in Monte Zoncolan terrible ascent (which deals with the Tour for the first time) and the Alpe di Pampeago. Even in the time trial of the leader of the Saeco Bolzano gains on Varese. And the advantage gained in the Dolomites becomes a chasm in the day from horde of Pontechianale and with the third seal final place in the imposing 19th and third last fraction, the Canelli-Cascata del Toce. The cronoepilogo Milan is a mere formality for the team captain of Corti and Martinelli. On the final podium, in fact, Simoni above Garzelli of 7'06 "and Ukrainian Yaroslav Popovych of 7'11".
the wake of the triumph of pink, Gilberto tackles the centenary of the Tour de France as a major rival of Lance Armstrong, but now comes from the games for the general classification and consoles himself by winning the Tappone pyrene Loudenvielle.
THE POST-TOUR 2004
In 2004, Simon points to the trio in the Giro, but after winning the third stage, at Corno alle Scale, and wore the pink jersey for three days, will "only" third in 2'05 " the young fellow Cunego and 3 "Serhiy Honchar. In December
Saeco and Lampre Lampre-blend coffee and the new team presents the Tour of 2005, fielding two co-captains: Simoni and Cunego. But the road back to the old hierarchies, with Gilberto - still triumph in the Tour of the Apennines - which attacks Paolo Savoldelli of the windows on the Hill along with Danilo Di Luca and José Rujano. In the drop-down Bergamo fills the gap, then Honchar helps him in the plains. In the subsequent rise of Sestriere, Gibo loses wheels Rujano and then the Giro. For 28 "seconds from the winner Savoldelli. Third, 45 "by the leader of the Discovery Channel, is the Venezuelan Rujano. The
difficult, if not impossible, living with Cunego, Simoni leads to sign at the end of 2005, for the Saunier Duval Prodir, whose captain is immediately in front of another great climber Leonardo Piepoli.
After the third place in the Tour of Italy of 2006, 11'59 "by the leader Ivan Basso, with whom at the end of the 20th stage will create a poisonous polemic, Simon Announces Retirement then reconsiders. It also engages In mountain biking, winning the Classic Rampilonga path and the Italian league, "marathon" in Costa Folgaria.
the Giro in 2007, won for the second time (but on the harder side, to Ovaro) on Zoncolan. The next year, is still there, to do battle. The last to quit.
personality clashes
Two characters are not easy, those of Damian Cunego and Gilberto Simoni. To close them, and as a team in the standings, are now sparks, with the old king who does not want to abdicate the throne and the young lion scalp to succeed to the throne of the Giro. The challenge lasts just over one season, but gives a true rivalry, fierce. Worthy of the great duels of the past who have written the history of Italian cycling.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com 
with Damiano Cunego Gilberto Simoni as with Coppi Bartali, 64 years later. The student who exceeds the teacher, the herd instinct that promotes road captain and went on to win by dominating the Tour of Italy. Ideal setting for a new, often poisonous rivalry.
2004 was a difficult season for Gibo. Saeco in the house explodes in pink and baby-buster, that year, there is not anyone. Simoni wins stage four Corno alle Scale and wears the pink jersey for four days but, overtaken by a young companion, the end had to settle for another third place overall. Within the team the relationship is not idyllic in the interest of all, after another year of Living Dangerously, the roads will separate the two samples. Forever.
BIRTH OF A RIVALRY
TOUR 2004, direct clash
Under the arch of Corso Venezia in Milan, we celebrate the peace between Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego. The Tour of Italy in 2004 ends with a page from the book Heart. The old king that springs a surprise on the podium and abdicates with dignity, raising the arm of former young squire, his successor as king dell'87esima edition of the Giro.
Kudos to Gibo, then, that on the day the third triumph weblog Saeco puts aside personal acrimony, honoring the golden baby, at 22, is the sixth youngest winner of the Tour behind Coppi, Marchisio, Saronni, Bartali and Balmamion.
The youngster who is inspired by Jim Morrison became a reality and has revived the tale of the herd that, in the street, and a crown of pink captain his childhood dream. The "shot" and click on Furcia almost irreverent Bormio have entitled the company built on the victory of Pontremoli, in the third stage, and consolidated at the seventh, with a Montevergine. The Junior World Championship in Verona
99 wins, the second stake, ahead of the Giro of 2'02 "Ukrainian Serhiy Honchar and 2'05" Simoni. And the angel of the beardless face of Verona is the symbolic image of a handover anything but painless.
CUNEGO STORY
Damiano Cunego was born September 19, 1981 in Cerro Veronese, a village just below Chiesanuova Bosco, and, since childhood - mother Anna Maria's word - "not the type to team sports, is a bit 'individualistic' .
son of Enzo and his older brother (7 years) Donato, Damiano first to play hockey, then football. Since 1995, he attended high school in Verona, and excels in cross country, discipline in which student wins bronze at Italian Championships Crotone 1997. That year, leaves and enters the track and field team cycling Gaiga Bruno Gore Tex, a company where he remained until 1999, his second year as juniors.
The first victory comes at the fifth race, the Gran Premio Memorial Antonella Muraro, Bonaldo Veronetta a race held by former racer Renato Giusti. Students get in 14 hits (and second place in the Italian Championship), from 16 juniors, including the Three Valleys Brescia and Lunigiana: the opportunity for the local newspaper entitled "The Lunigiana has found its Pantani."
Damian is in fact a very good climber, and when, in 1998, won Montecampione, now everyone thinks the Pirate, which on that climb and at the same years, has disconnected the Russian Pavel Tonkov to go to win the Tour of Italy.
Cunego for 1999 is the year of the consecration, the first tip to Blue World Championships in Verona, his hometown, winning gold in the junior category. In 2000, he left the team to go gialloblù amateur with the prestigious green jacket Zalf Euromobil Fior. In two years he won the Bassano-Montegrappa and received numerous placings: above all, the Tour of the Regions and the Giro della Valle d'Aosta. Among men under 23 is imposed in 4 races. It is now ready for the pros', achieved in 2002 at the Saeco ds Claudio Corti.
the first year he won two open races, the Giro d'Oro and Giro del Brenta Middle. Two victories in 2003, but other thickness: a stage and the final tour to Qinghai, China race that sees the blue team at the start of a stage race 25 years after the 1978 Vuelta. Then came the 34th place in his first Tour of Italy. In 2004
wins (and two partial successes), the Giro del Trentino, Giro Apennines (before Gilberto Simoni), and the GP of Larchwood. But above all, he won the Tour of Italy, which has won four stages remaining in fraction rose from seventh to 12th and 16th to Milan. Memorable
arrival at the Sanctuary of Montevergine, where an atypical divided Saeco sprints in front of the group, the perfect tactic to Falzes, where he and his companions Andrea Tonti and Eddy Mazzoleni triggers The brawl on the last climb and then comes the solo, blowing the leader's jersey Ukrainian Yaroslav Popovich, the shot of Boario, where he arrived along with captain Simoni, Cioni and Ukrainian Serhiy Honchar and then cross the finish line with arms raised.
2004, the first "LOMBARDY"
the world in his native Verona, Cunego leads the group with the best after trying an attack on the climb of the Torricelle. And then he closes a truly magical year for dominating the Tour of Lombardy over the Dutch Michael Boogerd and Ivan Basso Varese. With the 13th victory of the season in first place Damiano crosses Paolo Bettini in the international ranking of the UCI. He is the new number one in the cycling world.
2005-2008, his years as Captain
also and especially for the incompatibility with Simoni, Cunego wears the uniform since 2005 Lampre-Caffita, wanted by the new team boss Mario Galbraith (Lampre team) and Sergio Zappella (Saeco) and directed by Giuseppe Saronni and Claudio Corti. At
Romandie, the Little Prince (as he calls his fans) for 2 days as the leader's jersey before selling it in the time trial final. Looks like the omen for a great year, but mononucleosis will haunt him for the rest of the season.
In 2006, enter into partnership with the Lampre Fondital Brescia family Niboli joins Cunego and Marzio Bruseghin, Paolo Tiralongo and Slovenian Taddei Valjavec. Damian won a stage and the final week of the Coppi-Bartali Cycling, repeating and final partial success in the Giro del Trentino and appealing in the GP of Larchwood. On the eve of the Tour of Italy 2006 has 5 wins (and third place in Liege), but his adventure will end up with pink 4th place behind the trio Low-Gutierrez-Simoni, at 6'17 "and from the podium 'former captain.
In his first Tour de France, is the protagonist in the last week, the Alpe d'Huez second place behind Frank Schleck, who off in the last km. In Paris reaches 12 ° 19'19 "behind the winner, then disqualified, Floyd Landis, and showing off the white jersey for best young rider.
For 2007, the leaders agree with Beppe Saronni and Giuseppe Martinelli, Damiano change program. In Trentino, won in a sprint finish in the first portion and the second climb. Check the last two stages, is the first rider to win three times in the race.
the Tour of Italy was fifth at 3'49 "from the leader Danilo Di Luca. To participate in the Vuelta in September in preparation for the World Championships in Stuttgart, where it acts as the perfect wingman for the confirmation of rainbow Paolo Bettini. Damiano
closes with a flourish by winning the GP Beghelli and three years later, his second Tour of Lombardy. In the "Classic of dead leaves" beats the sprint Riccardo Ricco, who was fired with on the San Fermo della Battaglia, 10 km kilometers from the finish. In 2008
skip the Tour of Italy to bet on Tour, Olympics and World Varese. Meanwhile, he won a stage in the Tour of the Basque Country, won the Amstel Gold Race (upping Franck Schleck) and placed third in the Fleche Wallonne.
SIMONI STORY
Gilberto Simoni, Gibo said, was born in Palu of Jupiter (Trento) August 25, 1971. Strong climber gets to the professionals with the stigmata of the sample to have won in 1993, the Tour of Italy amateur national championship and the Giro del Friuli.
Among the pro 'debut the following year, the Jolly. After a season marked by physical problems and family losses in 1997 proposed to his team then, Cantina Tollo, to decrease the salary. Since 1997, the ds is the Mg Giancarlo Ferretti and two years later hits the first hit, a stage of the Giro del Trentino.
Stopped for high hematocrit in the Tour of Portugal, in 1998 Simon ponders retirement, but then changed his mind in the wake of renewed enthusiasm after the eighth place in the Lombardy.
in 1999, is third in the Tour of Switzerland (where he won a stage in Grindelwald) and the Tour of Italy. In the race to history for the disqualification of Marco Pantani after the stage of Madonna di Campiglio, Trentino won the first of his seven podiums in pink arriving at 3'36 "behind winner Ivan Gotti, Pantani with his former rival among amateurs, and just one second behind Paolo Savoldelli.
edition of 2000, Simoni was third again, this time in 1'33 "by Stefano Garzelli and 6" by Francesco Casagrande. As a consolation, Gibo won his first Giro stage: the 14th, from Selva di Val Gardena, Bormio.
the Vuelta is the first step in reaching the top of the terrible climb and Port.
In his first World Plouay, click on the finish but his is a progression rather than an attack, and is canceled by some comrades, who reported under the pursuers.
TOUR 2001 AT LAST FIRST
In 2001, Simoni wins Giro d'Italy at last. But success is overshadowed by the doping of Dario Frigo, its biggest rival, and the raid on the NAS in San Remo.
Gilberto attacks immediately. After trying it in the stage of Montebelluna, grab the pink jersey the next day, on Pordoi, 13th in population, which was won by Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio. Then he defends in the time trial from Sirmione to Salo (dominated by Frigo) and finally settles the decisive blow by winning the solo in the rain at Arona, next to last effort before the catwalk for Milan.
the eve of the 18th stage, the Sant'Anna di Imperia-Vinadio, but the NAS break overnight in the hotel where the caravan pink. The result is the disqualification of Fridge and the next day, the cancellation fraction due to the strike of the runners, kept awake by the checks continued until late at night. Back at the Vuelta
, Simoni beats all in the last uphill finish, the Alto de Abantos. At the World Cup Lisbon batsman plays for free. On the last lap shoot upward. German Ullrich and the other big favorites will mark each other and earn Simoni seconds. A 5 km from the finish, however, is his companion Lanfranchi, which reports on the pursuers. In race after the blue say you have not seen take Gibo, which is reached in just over a km to go. Freire wins the sprint. The controversy lasts all winter, that Simon does not end the Lampre: wills Saeco.
THE DISAPPOINTMENT TO AROUND 2002
2002 Giro, Simoni is favored. Instead Paolo Savoldelli will win the day. Bad start, Gibo is imposed to Campitello Matese, upping Francesco Casagrande, but soon to be found positive for cocaine metabolites (the first reflected back to the Giro del Trentino), and the day after the team convinced him to retire. After granting a positive to a dental surgery, Simoni shows that it was due to the balsamic candy for a sore throat purchased in South America (and containing small amounts of coca, used as an analgesic) and give Him an aunt returned from Peru. Acquitted by the court and reinstated the team, Simoni hatching purposes Redemption at the Giro. The eighth place in the Vuelta is not enough.
THE REDEMPTION OF PINK 2003, 2003
Simoni will start with second place in the Tour of Aragon and the first in the Giro del Trentino. Beaten in a sprint finish by Stefano Garzelli in Moena, Gibo off of the 9 "to Ronzone, where he caught and then kept the lead until the epilogue of Arco di Trento. The victory in the Tour of the Apennines, with the record of climbing the nozzle pitch (21'54 "against the 21'56" of Pantani in 1994), Gilberto is the favorite for the Giro. Garzelli
Parade in the pink jersey in the tenth stage, Simoni consolidates the record, winning in Monte Zoncolan terrible ascent (which deals with the Tour for the first time) and the Alpe di Pampeago. Even in the time trial of the leader of the Saeco Bolzano gains on Varese. And the advantage gained in the Dolomites becomes a chasm in the day from horde of Pontechianale and with the third seal final place in the imposing 19th and third last fraction, the Canelli-Cascata del Toce. The cronoepilogo Milan is a mere formality for the team captain of Corti and Martinelli. On the final podium, in fact, Simoni above Garzelli of 7'06 "and Ukrainian Yaroslav Popovych of 7'11".
the wake of the triumph of pink, Gilberto tackles the centenary of the Tour de France as a major rival of Lance Armstrong, but now comes from the games for the general classification and consoles himself by winning the Tappone pyrene Loudenvielle.
THE POST-TOUR 2004
In 2004, Simon points to the trio in the Giro, but after winning the third stage, at Corno alle Scale, and wore the pink jersey for three days, will "only" third in 2'05 " the young fellow Cunego and 3 "Serhiy Honchar. In December
Saeco and Lampre Lampre-blend coffee and the new team presents the Tour of 2005, fielding two co-captains: Simoni and Cunego. But the road back to the old hierarchies, with Gilberto - still triumph in the Tour of the Apennines - which attacks Paolo Savoldelli of the windows on the Hill along with Danilo Di Luca and José Rujano. In the drop-down Bergamo fills the gap, then Honchar helps him in the plains. In the subsequent rise of Sestriere, Gibo loses wheels Rujano and then the Giro. For 28 "seconds from the winner Savoldelli. Third, 45 "by the leader of the Discovery Channel, is the Venezuelan Rujano. The
difficult, if not impossible, living with Cunego, Simoni leads to sign at the end of 2005, for the Saunier Duval Prodir, whose captain is immediately in front of another great climber Leonardo Piepoli.
After the third place in the Tour of Italy of 2006, 11'59 "by the leader Ivan Basso, with whom at the end of the 20th stage will create a poisonous polemic, Simon Announces Retirement then reconsiders. It also engages In mountain biking, winning the Classic Rampilonga path and the Italian league, "marathon" in Costa Folgaria.
the Giro in 2007, won for the second time (but on the harder side, to Ovaro) on Zoncolan. The next year, is still there, to do battle. The last to quit.
personality clashes
Two characters are not easy, those of Damian Cunego and Gilberto Simoni. To close them, and as a team in the standings, are now sparks, with the old king who does not want to abdicate the throne and the young lion scalp to succeed to the throne of the Giro. The challenge lasts just over one season, but gives a true rivalry, fierce. Worthy of the great duels of the past who have written the history of Italian cycling.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com
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Coppi vs Magni: I He and the other
The Campionissimo against the "third man" of the Italian cycling: that between Coppi and Magni is the other great duel between the axes of the foot, on horseback between the forties and fifties. Fausto Fiorenzo will never live with the same, fierce rivalries, but divided with Gino Bartali, but the challenge between the heron and the Lion of Flanders will give fans the same challenges and extraordinary undertakings of the most beautiful and exciting era d ' gold of this sport.
1956 Tour of Lombardy, the last battle
October 1956: the Giro di Lombardia, Coppi chasing perhaps the last great triumph of a legendary career, and now starts at sunset. Magni, however, caused by an external event, it reacts and takes a prodigious chase, forcing the Campionissimo to surrender. And tears.
OLD YOUNG LION
AIRONE the still the classic of the mountains of Lombardy is perhaps the most beloved Coppi has: on the streets, in fact, wrote pages of legend, winning four consecutive editions in Lombardy, from 1946 to 1949, and repeated in 1954 just ahead of Magni.
Two years later, both are still there, against each other, Coppi has already taken 37 years, for him there was only one win (in Campari GP) in a sad season, with the head turned to the more family squabbles to cycling. Fausto ride - you evil - to stay away from trouble. Magni, however, came second in the Tour of Italy and still has energy to spare. The determination, then, is the same as always.
The "old" seems Coppi day of grace, and that could be the last great enterprise of his exceptional career. Fausto - which runs for the team Carpano Coppi - goes on the run with the young Ronchini. At the beginning of the Bianchi rider works, then joined him in the flagship, to addressed, its ds Pinella, a great friend Coppi, and as if by magic the Romagna stops pulling, citing as an excuse a pain in the knee. The weight of the race thus ends on the shoulders of Champions, which seems to fly that day: see it, Fausto think back to a time leads to all, and earn second, perhaps senses that you are in front of his last chance.
Behind the two fugitives, suddenly, after all seem to have surrendered, and Magni - the year before had won the Tour of Italy thanks to a kind of holy alliance with Coppi - to lead the chase. Fiorenzo But not only chasing the victory, chasing revenge.
Magni was in the group and had no chaser interest in shooting. She hoped they did Darrigade, Bobet, Van Looy, Poblet. If they had reached, Fiorenzo then would play their cards. But Coppi was difficult to grab on the run. At one point, however, a car had touched Magni. It was a car convertible. Standing, Giulia Occhini, the "White Lady", companion Coppi, had railed against Fiorenzo, who had reserved a couple of inelegant gestures. Magni was then imbufalito: "Now I run after him up to Novi Ligure," he had yelled.
And so the Lion of Flanders cycling pulling Comino to death. The others go back. Fausto take it back to the outskirts of Milan, to the bridge of Ghisolfa. Coppi tries desperately to win the sprint and almost succeeds. But Darrigade beats him by a whisker. And the champion, faded the last example, starts to cry bitterly.
cries, Coppi, on the lawn of the Vigorelli. He can not understand, and his face seems sharper than ever, more sad, more off. The emotion in those who attend closely to that drama might not only sports, is large, palpable, intense.
No one had ever seen him in tears after a run. That day, however, Coppi cries. Without shame or brakes. And long. He understood - and reported - that, not his faults, the last great opportunity of his career had just passed her by. And he had not been able to seize it.
COPPI STORY
Angelo Fausto Coppi, the champions of modern cycling, was born in Castellana (Alexandria) September 15, 1919. After a brief amateur career, go pro in 1939. A year later the wood and its role is to act as a wingman in the Tour of Italy captain Gino Bartali, Fausto instead will own, younger than five years, to win the race, opening the dualism par excellence in the cycling world , a rivalry that will continue for at least fifteen years.
UNDER THE BOMBS THE RECORD TIME
1942 On 7 November '42, under the bombs, Coppi try to beat the hour record, held by Frenchman Maurice Archambaud with 45.840 km. The preparation is not the best: there is war and Bent is in the Army in an infantry regiment in Tortona. At 14, on the runway of Milan's Vigorelli begins the attempt. Perhaps because of lack of experience in the specialty, the 30th round is a slight delay. In half an hour, covered 22.946 km 23.007 against the Archambaud. At the 70th session of the crisis is overcome and set the delay, 2 seconds from the time of the French. The last 30 laps are a pain: gaining valuable yards in a losing around then the next. At the end, after 115 laps Coppi takes precedence to 45.871 km, 31 meters higher than the previous record. Followed by French protests on regularity of the test, partly due to war, the record will be approved at the international level five years later, February 9, 1947, and with difficulty because of witnesses (for example, the timekeeper) had died in the conflict. The new limit will endure for 14 years until 29 June '56 when to improve it - even here amid controversy - will be Jacques Anquetil.
OF THE SANREMO 1946
The Second World War remains Coppi youth. Fausto left for the front was taken prisoner by the British. In 1946, the activity recovery, has already 27 years old and will be featured at least until 1955.
Fausto is relentless on the pass and uphill, not a sprint: his victories occur solo, often long-term leak. Both those which enhance the millions of listeners attached to the radio in the 1946 Milan-Sanremo and the Giro in 1949, the legendary Tappone Cuneo-Pinerolo.
the classic of 1946 is the first real race since the end of the war. After just 10 km Coppi - that the impossible coexistence with Bartali left the wood for the Bianchi - is queued to the four parties behind the escape attempt of the French Teisseire. A group of Binasco the head is already formed, and remains unchanged until the first ramps of the Turchino, where only Teisseire resists attack by an unleashed Coppi. Not last long: Fausto off too and looks alone of the tunnel Turchino, and gradually increases the advantage of 145 km solo flight, closed with 14 'on Teisseire and 24' on the group and Bartali.
TOUR 1949, the legendary Cuneo-Pinerolo
The Cuneo-Pinerolo of 254 km is perhaps the masterpiece of the World Cup, his most legendary. On June 10, 1949, the Tour faces a terrible stage, with the Magdalene, Vars, the Izoard, the Montgenevre and Sestriere. Coppi attacked immediately and face alone the five steps, over 190 km and about 8 hours into the race, reaching the finish line, despite the 5 holes, after almost 9 hours and 30 'on the pedals and with an advantage over Bartali of 11'32 " and almost 20 'on the pink jersey Adolfo Leoni.
A week earlier, the successful and hard-Bassano Bolzano, Coppi was trimmed to 7 Lions' after having climbed in the solitary Rolle, Pordoi and Gardena. At the start of Cuneo, everyone expected another sharp Castellania sample, but to repel the attack Volpi view of the Colle della Maddalena, Fausto flies away in a company that will build on the legendary and his trio at the Giro, won 23'47 "Bartali on the second. And next month, will center his first Tour de France.
THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF Champions
Before, no one had ever done the double in the same season, and Fausto even the repeats, in 1952, after passing two tragic events: the incident where Primolano, the Tour of 1950, the rift basin, the death of his brother Serse, fell in the 1951 Giro del Piemonte. In the two wins Giro time trial, the Rome-Rocca di Papa of 35 km and the Erba-Como, punctuated by the Venice-Bozen. Taking the shirt from the tenth stage, arrived in Milan with 9'18 "on Magni, second.
The challenge between the two continues indirectly on the roads of France, with Fausto that one year after the historic crisis, won for the second time the "Grande Boucle", which is also best climber, trimming 28'17 "placed at Ockers , 35'25 "on Bartali, fourth, 38'25 and Magni in the sixth.
Finally, in 1953 in Lugano, won his manner, in solitary, the World Cup on the road, successfully pursued throughout his career.
DECLINE
From 1955 to Fausto begins the slow but inexorable decline. Advanced age and the number of fractures - at least a dozen major ones in his career - are felt. Fausto refuses to leave the race, but the hits do not come anymore. In view of the season of 1960, forty years, would run again, but in a hunt in Africa, at the end of 1959, he contracted malaria. A
UAGA Dogu THE LAST RACE
Raphael Geminiani is the creator of the expedition in Upper Volta, then a French colony. With them also leave Anglade, Anquetil, Hassenforder and Rivière. A
Uaga Dogu, Coppi dispute his last race. It is December 13, 1959. Geminiani then goes hunting. Back at the camp are attacked by mosquitoes. In France, Geminiani was treated with quinine for the Pasteur Institute had been diagnosed as right: he was suffering from malaria. For
Fausto continues instead to speak of a strange influence. Hospital in Tortona, unconscious at about 22 New Year's Eve 1960. And at 8:45 on January 2, surrounded by the emotion of the whole nation, and Grey folding wings.
MAGNI STORY
Fiorenzo Magni was born in Prato Vaiano of December 7, 1920, was one of the best racers forties and fifties. Nicknamed the "Lion of Flanders", for the courage shown in the Belgian classic, won for three consecutive years, was the "third man" in the golden age of Italian cycling, a worthy adversary of Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi, the quintessential Italian cycling archrivals.
In 1936 he begins to run candidates in the category for the strongest team in the area, the Cycling Association of Prato. In 1937, past students, gets 12 hits and to be able to understand the professional racer, but a short time later in a car accident, her father died and has to go to work to help the family. In 1938, amateur racing, card Alfredo Martini with AC for Montecatini Terme. Vince different races and the following year is selected for the World category, held in Varese, then canceled by the outbreak of World War II.
wins as an amateur in 1940, timed in tandem with Vito Ortelli, the Giro della Provincia di Milano. The following year, passing the professional Bianchi, who was following him for some time and which will remain in three seasons.
Magni comes with fourth place in the Milan-Turin and Milan-Sanremo, but will have to settle for eight years to make the follower. And like all cyclists at the time, will see his career heavily penalized by the events of the war.
In the second half of 1943, after September 8, the date of the armistice signed by General Badoglio with the Allies, Fiorenzo adheres to the Republic of Salò. The facts that bind to the chosen field led him, in July 1944, to move to Monza, where he met Liliana, his future wife. Disqualified
grapes (the former Italian federation), 1946 passed without the run, for some, because of his fascist sympathies, according to others, for races where he participated under an assumed name.
In 1947, the Visconti, and races back to winning his first national team for the World torrid French Reims, where he is the protagonist in the decisive run, closed with a fourth place behind the Dutch and Middelkamp Jansen and the Belgian Sercu the place of honor.
AROUND 1948, THE FIRST TIME IN PINK
In 1948, Magni addresses for the first time the classic north (in the Paris-Roubaix is \u200b\u200bthe fifth and retired the Tour of Flanders) and the second stake wins first Giro d ' Italy, despite the penalty of 120 "to pressures imposed by the jury deemed to be irregular. With
Bartali lingered from a fall, Fiorenzo wearing the pink jersey and a large margin thanks to a flight that had surprised the favorites. Then, on the Pordoi during Cortina d'Ampezzo-Trent, Magni received several thrusts and several teams complaining. The Jury of the penalized two minutes in the standings, but Coppi, stage winner and defending champion, in protest against the penalty, which is considered too soft, he retires with all the Whites.
The last two stages, for the pink jersey, I am a Calvary: undeclared whistling all the way, Magni won the 19th and last lap, the Brescia-Milan 231 km. FLANDERS TO THE TRIPLET
On 10 April 1949, after spending the winter working out on track in Switzerland, April 10 at the start back in the Tour of Flanders, by itself, the only company with a mechanic and a journalist Gazzetta dello Sport. It will be the first of three consecutive victories in the "Queen of the walls."
The first time he won before Ollevier and Schotte. In 1950, removing all the terrible wall of Grammont, on paved surfaces covered by coal dust. In 1951, by display of power against the French and Gauthier Redolfi. No
Italian rider was never able to win the last classic of the north, Fiorenzo succeeds three times in a row and for his courage won the deserved nickname of "Lion of Flanders", in tribute to the legendary Belgian paraphrase Joseph "Jef" Demusyere, said the locomotive of Flanders.
OTHER SUCCESSES
passista Excellent - especially on dirt - not excelled Magni uphill, but downhill, which tackled with determination and courage legendary, seemingly hopeless situations reversed. Thus win three consecutive tours of Flanders (1949 to 1951) and as many tours of Italy (1948, 1951 and 1955), the last of which - won for just 13 "on pairs - as the oldest winner of the Giro.
Among his achievements even more prestigious three statements at the Turn of the Piedmont, in the cabins and the Italian Championship Trophy. Finally, the second in the World Cup in 1951 (preceded by the Swiss Ferdi Kübler) and at 36 years, the Tour of Italy of 1956 (behind Charly Gaul of Luxembourg).
He always missed the Tour de France, but in 1950, during the 12th stage, while in the yellow jersey, the Italian team had withdrawn as a result of pressures Bartali, attacked on the Col d'Aspin troublemakers by some French.
1950, THE TOUR injustice
In 1950, the Tour - then reserved for national training programs - Italy, as always, is represented by two teams. That of the "tricolor", with Bartali captain, and that of the "cadets", led by Magni. Fiorenzo wins the yellow jersey on July 25 in the stage of Saint-Gaudens, won by Bartali. Italians of both training win all the time, and against them are locked in a hateful media campaign. Along the way people call them with contempt "macaroni." Some, especially on the climb, reach out your hand. First up Bartali, who once the hotel called the journalists to declare that the next day the Italian representative would be home. Goddet, patron of the race, implores him not to, but Bartali is unyielding. The dream ends there yellow Magni: folded together with the shirt in his suitcase. TURN TO THE TRIS
(1955) AND THE END CAREER
Magni was invented, in cycling, what today is called "sponsorship", combining his team to a company that had nothing to do with the bike: advertising without ties to the market of the mechanical means, made its appearance in 1954 with the new line set up by Fiorenzo, the Nivea-Fuchs.
is with the colors that spends the Tuscan the last three years of his career. In 1955 tris ago for the third time, after the Flemish and the Italian Championship, is the third successful - albeit not in a row - the Tour of Italy, won for just 13 "on Coppi.
The following year, the last of his career, he broke his collarbone falling in the 12th, the Grosseto-Livorno. And to endure the pain, clenching his teeth running a leather strap tied to the handlebars. And due to the withdrawal of the best rated in the horde of the stage from Bondone, played in a snowstorm closes the 2nd place, 3'27 "behind winner Gaul.
At the end of the season, Magni says stop after more than seventy victories (including six stages in the Giro, Tour and 7 to 4 in the Vuelta), 24 days and nine yellow and pink mesh tricolor 3.
THE
retired from racing after the race, will serve in leadership positions and long positions will be national coach, president of the runners and president of the Professional League.
ME, HIM AND THE OTHER
Scholar Craft, attentive to every aspect of the profession (dallalimentazione the strict respect for the life of an athlete), Magni was very close to Coppi, his great opponent between 1948 and 1955, as openness to modernity. For
culture and character, however, Fiorenzo was perhaps more similar to fellow Bartali, which shared the boundless confidence in himself, infinite courage and determination. And with these qualities, combined with a more authoritarian management that gregarious, Magni, runner of rare intelligence, it was also capable of great enterprises.
And while the whole of Italy and lined up in cheering between coppiani bartaliani, the "third man", a year younger than Fausto, gave birth to another with the Campionissimo super rivalry that has made all the more memorable years epic of Italian cycling.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com 
The Campionissimo against the "third man" of the Italian cycling: that between Coppi and Magni is the other great duel between the axes of the foot, on horseback between the forties and fifties. Fausto Fiorenzo will never live with the same, fierce rivalries, but divided with Gino Bartali, but the challenge between the heron and the Lion of Flanders will give fans the same challenges and extraordinary undertakings of the most beautiful and exciting era d ' gold of this sport.
1956 Tour of Lombardy, the last battle
October 1956: the Giro di Lombardia, Coppi chasing perhaps the last great triumph of a legendary career, and now starts at sunset. Magni, however, caused by an external event, it reacts and takes a prodigious chase, forcing the Campionissimo to surrender. And tears.
OLD YOUNG LION
AIRONE the still the classic of the mountains of Lombardy is perhaps the most beloved Coppi has: on the streets, in fact, wrote pages of legend, winning four consecutive editions in Lombardy, from 1946 to 1949, and repeated in 1954 just ahead of Magni.
Two years later, both are still there, against each other, Coppi has already taken 37 years, for him there was only one win (in Campari GP) in a sad season, with the head turned to the more family squabbles to cycling. Fausto ride - you evil - to stay away from trouble. Magni, however, came second in the Tour of Italy and still has energy to spare. The determination, then, is the same as always.
The "old" seems Coppi day of grace, and that could be the last great enterprise of his exceptional career. Fausto - which runs for the team Carpano Coppi - goes on the run with the young Ronchini. At the beginning of the Bianchi rider works, then joined him in the flagship, to addressed, its ds Pinella, a great friend Coppi, and as if by magic the Romagna stops pulling, citing as an excuse a pain in the knee. The weight of the race thus ends on the shoulders of Champions, which seems to fly that day: see it, Fausto think back to a time leads to all, and earn second, perhaps senses that you are in front of his last chance.
Behind the two fugitives, suddenly, after all seem to have surrendered, and Magni - the year before had won the Tour of Italy thanks to a kind of holy alliance with Coppi - to lead the chase. Fiorenzo But not only chasing the victory, chasing revenge.
Magni was in the group and had no chaser interest in shooting. She hoped they did Darrigade, Bobet, Van Looy, Poblet. If they had reached, Fiorenzo then would play their cards. But Coppi was difficult to grab on the run. At one point, however, a car had touched Magni. It was a car convertible. Standing, Giulia Occhini, the "White Lady", companion Coppi, had railed against Fiorenzo, who had reserved a couple of inelegant gestures. Magni was then imbufalito: "Now I run after him up to Novi Ligure," he had yelled.
And so the Lion of Flanders cycling pulling Comino to death. The others go back. Fausto take it back to the outskirts of Milan, to the bridge of Ghisolfa. Coppi tries desperately to win the sprint and almost succeeds. But Darrigade beats him by a whisker. And the champion, faded the last example, starts to cry bitterly.
cries, Coppi, on the lawn of the Vigorelli. He can not understand, and his face seems sharper than ever, more sad, more off. The emotion in those who attend closely to that drama might not only sports, is large, palpable, intense.
No one had ever seen him in tears after a run. That day, however, Coppi cries. Without shame or brakes. And long. He understood - and reported - that, not his faults, the last great opportunity of his career had just passed her by. And he had not been able to seize it.
COPPI STORY
Angelo Fausto Coppi, the champions of modern cycling, was born in Castellana (Alexandria) September 15, 1919. After a brief amateur career, go pro in 1939. A year later the wood and its role is to act as a wingman in the Tour of Italy captain Gino Bartali, Fausto instead will own, younger than five years, to win the race, opening the dualism par excellence in the cycling world , a rivalry that will continue for at least fifteen years.
UNDER THE BOMBS THE RECORD TIME
1942 On 7 November '42, under the bombs, Coppi try to beat the hour record, held by Frenchman Maurice Archambaud with 45.840 km. The preparation is not the best: there is war and Bent is in the Army in an infantry regiment in Tortona. At 14, on the runway of Milan's Vigorelli begins the attempt. Perhaps because of lack of experience in the specialty, the 30th round is a slight delay. In half an hour, covered 22.946 km 23.007 against the Archambaud. At the 70th session of the crisis is overcome and set the delay, 2 seconds from the time of the French. The last 30 laps are a pain: gaining valuable yards in a losing around then the next. At the end, after 115 laps Coppi takes precedence to 45.871 km, 31 meters higher than the previous record. Followed by French protests on regularity of the test, partly due to war, the record will be approved at the international level five years later, February 9, 1947, and with difficulty because of witnesses (for example, the timekeeper) had died in the conflict. The new limit will endure for 14 years until 29 June '56 when to improve it - even here amid controversy - will be Jacques Anquetil.
OF THE SANREMO 1946
The Second World War remains Coppi youth. Fausto left for the front was taken prisoner by the British. In 1946, the activity recovery, has already 27 years old and will be featured at least until 1955.
Fausto is relentless on the pass and uphill, not a sprint: his victories occur solo, often long-term leak. Both those which enhance the millions of listeners attached to the radio in the 1946 Milan-Sanremo and the Giro in 1949, the legendary Tappone Cuneo-Pinerolo.
the classic of 1946 is the first real race since the end of the war. After just 10 km Coppi - that the impossible coexistence with Bartali left the wood for the Bianchi - is queued to the four parties behind the escape attempt of the French Teisseire. A group of Binasco the head is already formed, and remains unchanged until the first ramps of the Turchino, where only Teisseire resists attack by an unleashed Coppi. Not last long: Fausto off too and looks alone of the tunnel Turchino, and gradually increases the advantage of 145 km solo flight, closed with 14 'on Teisseire and 24' on the group and Bartali.
TOUR 1949, the legendary Cuneo-Pinerolo
The Cuneo-Pinerolo of 254 km is perhaps the masterpiece of the World Cup, his most legendary. On June 10, 1949, the Tour faces a terrible stage, with the Magdalene, Vars, the Izoard, the Montgenevre and Sestriere. Coppi attacked immediately and face alone the five steps, over 190 km and about 8 hours into the race, reaching the finish line, despite the 5 holes, after almost 9 hours and 30 'on the pedals and with an advantage over Bartali of 11'32 " and almost 20 'on the pink jersey Adolfo Leoni.
A week earlier, the successful and hard-Bassano Bolzano, Coppi was trimmed to 7 Lions' after having climbed in the solitary Rolle, Pordoi and Gardena. At the start of Cuneo, everyone expected another sharp Castellania sample, but to repel the attack Volpi view of the Colle della Maddalena, Fausto flies away in a company that will build on the legendary and his trio at the Giro, won 23'47 "Bartali on the second. And next month, will center his first Tour de France.
THE GOLDEN PERIOD OF Champions
Before, no one had ever done the double in the same season, and Fausto even the repeats, in 1952, after passing two tragic events: the incident where Primolano, the Tour of 1950, the rift basin, the death of his brother Serse, fell in the 1951 Giro del Piemonte. In the two wins Giro time trial, the Rome-Rocca di Papa of 35 km and the Erba-Como, punctuated by the Venice-Bozen. Taking the shirt from the tenth stage, arrived in Milan with 9'18 "on Magni, second.
The challenge between the two continues indirectly on the roads of France, with Fausto that one year after the historic crisis, won for the second time the "Grande Boucle", which is also best climber, trimming 28'17 "placed at Ockers , 35'25 "on Bartali, fourth, 38'25 and Magni in the sixth.
Finally, in 1953 in Lugano, won his manner, in solitary, the World Cup on the road, successfully pursued throughout his career.
DECLINE
From 1955 to Fausto begins the slow but inexorable decline. Advanced age and the number of fractures - at least a dozen major ones in his career - are felt. Fausto refuses to leave the race, but the hits do not come anymore. In view of the season of 1960, forty years, would run again, but in a hunt in Africa, at the end of 1959, he contracted malaria. A
UAGA Dogu THE LAST RACE
Raphael Geminiani is the creator of the expedition in Upper Volta, then a French colony. With them also leave Anglade, Anquetil, Hassenforder and Rivière. A
Uaga Dogu, Coppi dispute his last race. It is December 13, 1959. Geminiani then goes hunting. Back at the camp are attacked by mosquitoes. In France, Geminiani was treated with quinine for the Pasteur Institute had been diagnosed as right: he was suffering from malaria. For
Fausto continues instead to speak of a strange influence. Hospital in Tortona, unconscious at about 22 New Year's Eve 1960. And at 8:45 on January 2, surrounded by the emotion of the whole nation, and Grey folding wings.
MAGNI STORY
Fiorenzo Magni was born in Prato Vaiano of December 7, 1920, was one of the best racers forties and fifties. Nicknamed the "Lion of Flanders", for the courage shown in the Belgian classic, won for three consecutive years, was the "third man" in the golden age of Italian cycling, a worthy adversary of Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi, the quintessential Italian cycling archrivals.
In 1936 he begins to run candidates in the category for the strongest team in the area, the Cycling Association of Prato. In 1937, past students, gets 12 hits and to be able to understand the professional racer, but a short time later in a car accident, her father died and has to go to work to help the family. In 1938, amateur racing, card Alfredo Martini with AC for Montecatini Terme. Vince different races and the following year is selected for the World category, held in Varese, then canceled by the outbreak of World War II.
wins as an amateur in 1940, timed in tandem with Vito Ortelli, the Giro della Provincia di Milano. The following year, passing the professional Bianchi, who was following him for some time and which will remain in three seasons.
Magni comes with fourth place in the Milan-Turin and Milan-Sanremo, but will have to settle for eight years to make the follower. And like all cyclists at the time, will see his career heavily penalized by the events of the war.
In the second half of 1943, after September 8, the date of the armistice signed by General Badoglio with the Allies, Fiorenzo adheres to the Republic of Salò. The facts that bind to the chosen field led him, in July 1944, to move to Monza, where he met Liliana, his future wife. Disqualified
grapes (the former Italian federation), 1946 passed without the run, for some, because of his fascist sympathies, according to others, for races where he participated under an assumed name.
In 1947, the Visconti, and races back to winning his first national team for the World torrid French Reims, where he is the protagonist in the decisive run, closed with a fourth place behind the Dutch and Middelkamp Jansen and the Belgian Sercu the place of honor.
AROUND 1948, THE FIRST TIME IN PINK
In 1948, Magni addresses for the first time the classic north (in the Paris-Roubaix is \u200b\u200bthe fifth and retired the Tour of Flanders) and the second stake wins first Giro d ' Italy, despite the penalty of 120 "to pressures imposed by the jury deemed to be irregular. With
Bartali lingered from a fall, Fiorenzo wearing the pink jersey and a large margin thanks to a flight that had surprised the favorites. Then, on the Pordoi during Cortina d'Ampezzo-Trent, Magni received several thrusts and several teams complaining. The Jury of the penalized two minutes in the standings, but Coppi, stage winner and defending champion, in protest against the penalty, which is considered too soft, he retires with all the Whites.
The last two stages, for the pink jersey, I am a Calvary: undeclared whistling all the way, Magni won the 19th and last lap, the Brescia-Milan 231 km. FLANDERS TO THE TRIPLET
On 10 April 1949, after spending the winter working out on track in Switzerland, April 10 at the start back in the Tour of Flanders, by itself, the only company with a mechanic and a journalist Gazzetta dello Sport. It will be the first of three consecutive victories in the "Queen of the walls."
The first time he won before Ollevier and Schotte. In 1950, removing all the terrible wall of Grammont, on paved surfaces covered by coal dust. In 1951, by display of power against the French and Gauthier Redolfi. No
Italian rider was never able to win the last classic of the north, Fiorenzo succeeds three times in a row and for his courage won the deserved nickname of "Lion of Flanders", in tribute to the legendary Belgian paraphrase Joseph "Jef" Demusyere, said the locomotive of Flanders.
OTHER SUCCESSES
passista Excellent - especially on dirt - not excelled Magni uphill, but downhill, which tackled with determination and courage legendary, seemingly hopeless situations reversed. Thus win three consecutive tours of Flanders (1949 to 1951) and as many tours of Italy (1948, 1951 and 1955), the last of which - won for just 13 "on pairs - as the oldest winner of the Giro.
Among his achievements even more prestigious three statements at the Turn of the Piedmont, in the cabins and the Italian Championship Trophy. Finally, the second in the World Cup in 1951 (preceded by the Swiss Ferdi Kübler) and at 36 years, the Tour of Italy of 1956 (behind Charly Gaul of Luxembourg).
He always missed the Tour de France, but in 1950, during the 12th stage, while in the yellow jersey, the Italian team had withdrawn as a result of pressures Bartali, attacked on the Col d'Aspin troublemakers by some French.
1950, THE TOUR injustice
In 1950, the Tour - then reserved for national training programs - Italy, as always, is represented by two teams. That of the "tricolor", with Bartali captain, and that of the "cadets", led by Magni. Fiorenzo wins the yellow jersey on July 25 in the stage of Saint-Gaudens, won by Bartali. Italians of both training win all the time, and against them are locked in a hateful media campaign. Along the way people call them with contempt "macaroni." Some, especially on the climb, reach out your hand. First up Bartali, who once the hotel called the journalists to declare that the next day the Italian representative would be home. Goddet, patron of the race, implores him not to, but Bartali is unyielding. The dream ends there yellow Magni: folded together with the shirt in his suitcase. TURN TO THE TRIS
(1955) AND THE END CAREER
Magni was invented, in cycling, what today is called "sponsorship", combining his team to a company that had nothing to do with the bike: advertising without ties to the market of the mechanical means, made its appearance in 1954 with the new line set up by Fiorenzo, the Nivea-Fuchs.
is with the colors that spends the Tuscan the last three years of his career. In 1955 tris ago for the third time, after the Flemish and the Italian Championship, is the third successful - albeit not in a row - the Tour of Italy, won for just 13 "on Coppi.
The following year, the last of his career, he broke his collarbone falling in the 12th, the Grosseto-Livorno. And to endure the pain, clenching his teeth running a leather strap tied to the handlebars. And due to the withdrawal of the best rated in the horde of the stage from Bondone, played in a snowstorm closes the 2nd place, 3'27 "behind winner Gaul.
At the end of the season, Magni says stop after more than seventy victories (including six stages in the Giro, Tour and 7 to 4 in the Vuelta), 24 days and nine yellow and pink mesh tricolor 3.
THE
retired from racing after the race, will serve in leadership positions and long positions will be national coach, president of the runners and president of the Professional League.
ME, HIM AND THE OTHER
Scholar Craft, attentive to every aspect of the profession (dallalimentazione the strict respect for the life of an athlete), Magni was very close to Coppi, his great opponent between 1948 and 1955, as openness to modernity. For
culture and character, however, Fiorenzo was perhaps more similar to fellow Bartali, which shared the boundless confidence in himself, infinite courage and determination. And with these qualities, combined with a more authoritarian management that gregarious, Magni, runner of rare intelligence, it was also capable of great enterprises.
And while the whole of Italy and lined up in cheering between coppiani bartaliani, the "third man", a year younger than Fausto, gave birth to another with the Campionissimo super rivalry that has made all the more memorable years epic of Italian cycling.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com
Denise Milani – Present
Chiappucci vs Indurain, the heart and head
SAMPLES Antipodes
Miguel Indurain, the winner. Claudio Chiappucci, his most unyielding rival. Often ended so the great revolutions of the early nineties. Two samples from the opposite characteristics: powerful wait-and English, and agile arrembante Italian. The first, very strong time trial, imposed prohibitive for all intervals. The second was exalted sparking the brawl uphill. Together, they made even the largest Tour of Italy and the Tour de France, Cori in which, despite the obvious final - the navarro in pink or yellow and green or polka-dot jersey in Varese - the show was guaranteed.
1992, THE FIRST MATCH IN PINK
For Indurain 1992 is the year of a row in yellow and mating Giro-Tour double that Navarro will repeat the following season.
The first success of a English rider in the Tour of Italy, centered by Miguel at the first attempt is made even more significant by the great value of the claimants to the ultimate success: retired on the eve of the French Bernard street, the lot of the favorites include the Fignon Jalabert and his countrymen, the American Hampsten, Kelly Irish, Latvian and Italians Ugrumov Chiappucci, Lelli, Gotti and Giovannetti.
Since preliminary time trial of the leader of the Banesto Genova suggests that he came to the Giro to win and not to prepare for the Tour, and it sells for only 3 "in a short time trial specialist, Frenchman Thierry Marie, the first pink jersey .
In the third stage, the olive grove Spa-Arezzo, Indurain breaks the plunge and took first. In the time trial the next day, from Arezzo to Sansepolcro, taking the lead heavy then will only handle with great tactical intelligence. Spend free
the Dolomites, the Alps takes a champion Finally, sealed the victory with an extraordinary display against time in the final stage, the 22nd, from Vigevano Milan, swept the remarkable average of 50.127 km / h. Along the way Miguel
Chiappucci that even reaches the second in the standings, was third party 'before him. The Varese, with a surge of pride keeps about twenty yards ahead, although among those who work in the common belief is that English did not want to humiliate it, surpassing, the brave Italian runners.
The ultimate success does not admit of discussion: Indurain, rose in the third last lap, leaving a 5'12 "and 7'16 Chiappucci a spiral, the Italians that keep him company on the podium. To crown the domain of Miguel, the blue jersey of the winner Intergiro. A ROSE IN THE
The second, consecutive victory Indurain in the Tour of Italy to humanize the English champion, which for the first time is really in trouble: going into the penultimate stage, which ends with a hard climb to the Sanctuary Oropa. Miguel is in pink and Ugrumov attacks him thoroughly in an attempt to reassemble the gap of 1'34 "that separates him from the championship leader. Indurain gives a crash and must use all his willpower to keep the jersey. We will succeed, but crossed the line, will be forced to lean on the stage of the jury, exhausted. Historical image and its drama competitive spirit, unforgettable, poignant "beauty."
Unlike the previous round, this time Indurain does not appear in top form, but finds an unusual ally in Moreno Argentin. The Venetian, which boasts an outstanding career as a hunter classic, as the leader's jersey in the first stage and then, for ten days, the team wisely pilot to control the race. The Navarro took the opportunity to recover the best condition in view of the time trial in Senigallia, scheduled at the tenth stage. In those 28 km against the clock to try and win the English conquest of the pink jersey then submit, to the 11th stage, the surprising Bruno Leali, before you take it up again in the 14th fraction, the Tappone Corvara. Eventually the navarro triumphs with 58 "and up Ugrumov 5'27" on Chiappucci now subscribed to the podium.
AROUND 1994, THE LOSS OF TRIS
In 1994, when all come to expect the fantastic trio consecutive Giro-Tour, Indurain king must abdicate, even if only in the Giro, two young scatenatissimi: Russian Eugeni Berzin and Marco Romagna Pantani. Miguel defeated their on the ground most favorable to him: The race against time, especially on which he built the two consecutive one-two in pink and yellow. In
chronometer in Follonica Grosseto, the eighth stage, Berzin gives a sound lesson to Indurain, who must settle for third place, also preceded by former wingman Armand De Las Cuevas. Against the best
Berzin Pantani's career and a wonderful protagonist in the mountains, Miguel - back from a preparation reduced by trouble in the knee suffered early in the season - the Tour ends on the third step of the podium, with 3'23 "of delay Berzin and 32 from behind Pantani. The interregnum in his pink ends there.
INDURAIN
Miguelon STORY, THE CHAMPION GENTLEMAN
Larraya Miguel Indurain was born July 16, 1964 in Villa, the English town of about ten thousand inhabitants located near Pamplona, \u200b\u200bin the autonomous community of Navarre.
approaches to cycling fairly random, covering cycling the 26 miles that separate Elloriz Villa, the mother country.
At age 11 he won his first race, wearing the colors of the Club Ciclista Villavés. Indurain phrase that describes the award is to be read: "A bocadillo a Fanta y, y eso me gusta" ("a sandwich and a Fanta, and I was happy").
national amateur champion in 1983, go pro in September 1984 and since then militerà in the same sports team, before Reynolds and Banesto, led by José Miguel Echavarri, ds that already has two years in their amateur team.
first win of Indurain among professionals is a fraction of the Tour de L'Avenir, stage race that conquisteràdue years later, in 1986. In 1985 he participated for the first time in the Tour, but retreat to the fourth stage. A year later, its successor the 12th. The first tour, which concludes that the 1987 is: 97 ° in two hours, 53'11 "behind winner Stephen Roche. In the "Grande Boucle" in 1988 is the victorious faithful squire of Pedro Delgado, dates back to 1989 and its first partial victory, arrived for posting Pau in Cauterets. In 1990
triumphs in the Pyrenean stage to Luz Ardiden, and is ranked tenth in 12'47 ".
In 1991 he won his first Tour - with a great action in the Pyrenees in the company of the future to rival Chiappucci Val Louron - and two time trials, Alençon and Macon. In 1992, centers the Giro-Tour double, a company which unites him to the great Anquetil, Coppi, Merckx, Hinault and Roche, and bisser the next year.
On September 2, 1994, in the Bordeaux velodrome, breaking the record time, with 53.040 km, surpassing the record of 327 meters Scotsman Graeme Obree. But the new limit, obtained with a bicycle instead of traditional special in 2000 will approved by the UCI in the "best human performance."
TIME OF MIGUEL
to suggest that Miguel Indurain will come close in record time, the barrier of 55 km - in an attempt to 2250 meters of altitude of Mexico City - is the result of evidence that the Navarro finished the ellipse covered with Bordeaux. Over that distance, 53.040 km in sixty minutes, to convince him was his execution of the first attempt. There is still the
Indurain who can ride from start to finish on the measuring line of the roadway (more than once, his front wheel pointing left or right) but one patient, persistent training specifically allow him to make progress then that will help to improve performance.
For Indurain, in fact, is not a question of power. Miguel expresses a durable power of 550 watts, has a lung capacity of eight liters, the heart to pump 50 liters of blood per minute, the heart rate of 28 beats at rest, 190 and 150 during the maximum effort after a few seconds: a machine that scientists have called perfect, able to operate longer than those used in reports, still in Mexico, Merckx and Moser.
THE GOLDEN SUNSET
In 1995 he won his fifth and final Tour de France (Filotto failed even by Merckx, Hinault and Anquetil, and then surpassed only by Armstrong that he will win seven in a row) and the time trial at world championship Duitama, Colombia. In this edition of the World also won second place in the road test, behind compatriot Abraham Olano and blue Marco Pantani, beaten with a furious sprint. For Indurain is the third podium after the bronze in Stuttgart in 1991 (behind Bugno and Rooks) and the second silver after Oslo 1993 (behind Armstrong).
In 1996, his last professional season, winning the gold medal in the time trial at the Olympics in Atlanta. The best choice for starting a career that has seen victory in 111 races, including the Clásica de San Sebastián (1990), and the one-two consecutive in Paris-Nice (1989 and 1990) and the Tour of Catalonia (1991 and 1992). As the only worry, most of the criticism that his English, the lack of feeling for the Vuelta, which finished second in the race in 1991.
ONE SPOT FOR CYCLING
Indurain was a great propagandist of his sport. Not only because it was a pleasure to see in action a runner of her size (1.88 x 78 kg), but also because running out and has never allowed a gesture out of place, a statement peppered or a polemic, always composed also in less favorable times, a gentleman at all times. Clean the face of cycling. A commercial for the movement, even nell'addio. Unlike
Merckx, who acted with fury, and also by Hinault, Miguel sipped the pedal strokes with elegance and it is rarely seen in difficulties, let alone a crisis. And just realized that his engine was about to falter, in January 1996 fell by bike with a smile, saying "no thanks" to various positions because he felt indebted to the family. In addition to his farm, Miguel today deals with various economic activities (car dealerships, warehouses, sports), but still follows the cycling headings for treating the English press on the occasion of big international races.
Chiappucci STORY
Claudio Chiappucci, one of the most popular cyclists of the nineties, was born in Uboldo (Varese), the February 28, 1963.
climber, goes pro at the time of Carrera Roberto Visentin, Stephen Roche and Guido Bontempi.
After many years of gregarious (and the only plaque Cup trophy in 1989), leaps to the headlines in the Tour de France in 1990, entering into what appears to one of the many joints-bin that characterize the first days of the "Grande Boucle ". Instead, the action goes in port and more than 10 'ahead of the favorites. In the later stages of his former comrades escape (Steve Bauer, Frans Maassen and Ronan Pensec) retreat in the standings, he did not: indeed, wearing the yellow jersey for eight stages, from the 13th to the penultimate. The decisive time trial. Chiappucci part with 5 " ahead of the big favorite Greg Lemond, the Tour that blows them away to the still shocking, and surprising, the final seconds. Claudio is the first Italian to reach the podium in Paris since 1972, when Felice Gimondi finished second behind Eddy Merckx.
discovered the sample, the "Bottom" won the Milan-San Remo with a memorable solo flight, the Tour of the Apennines, the Gran Premio di San Sebastian, the Three Valleys Varesine, the Giro del Piemonte, the Tour of Catalonia, the Catalan Week , the Tour of the Basque Country, three stages of the Tour de France.
Lots of great and often their placings. Two times second in the Tour (behind Lemond, Indurain later) and the Tour (behind the first of snails, then Indurain), placed at the '94 World of Agrigento, won by Frenchman Luc Leblanc. In
career has had to confront - as well as Gianni Bugno, rival off the track and race - with another great champion, Miguel Indurain, who recovered in time trials, and with interest in what had to give up Sciapussì (so The French called it, with a hint of snobbery, the generous and combative Italian climber). Twice
best grimpeur Tour ('91 and '92) and Giro ('92 and '93), as soon as the road climbed was capable of companies that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
memory, the 1992 Tour, his flight of over 223 km (Of which 126 alone) and in Sestriere saw him remove all his opponents, including Bugno and Indurain, who eventually win for the second consecutive time the Tour de France.
Claudio is considered one of the athletes who have contributed most to grow cyclist Marco Pantani, the other strong personalities with whom he had several disagreements. Of those he has always had in the group. Chiappucci is what in slang is called a "Parlon, and often sends them to say. One
so like the people, divide the fans but it is sometimes frowned upon by his colleagues, at which arouses send and dislikes. In addition, running Chiappucci is a "disturbing" because it breaks the rules, breaks the balance. If you see an overpass, take. And the platoon, gladly would travel at high speeds even when quiet, like the right.
Perhaps for this reason its decline, which lasted a couple of seasons, go almost unnoticed. And when they found a rate of hematocrit is too high for him it's time to say stop.
THE
Chiappucci after the race - known as El Diablo since the time of his first races in South America - today is devoted to bicycle racing. In 2006, pending a public relations role that cycling has not yet been able to give him, did the reality show Castaway Island famous. Indurain was not there, but Claudio was second there too.
A RIVALRY WITH TWO WINNERS
Extraordinary champion, Miguel Indurain was the first rider to win five consecutive Tour de France. Long-distance rider of great talent, even exceptional time trial, he knew suffering uphill, facing at its own pace, without ever getting up from his seat. On that ground, however, were runner Daltri Claudio Chiappucci time, which will also have won little but was able to give so much in terms of emotions, and his public.
"My victories were not so beautiful, if I had not had an opponent like Chiappucci," said the Spaniard's career at the end of Diablo, perhaps his most tenacious and uncompromising opponent.
Together have created a passionate rivalry made up of large companies and memorable challenges: the class and head to the heart and courage. Cycling at its best. 
SAMPLES Antipodes
Miguel Indurain, the winner. Claudio Chiappucci, his most unyielding rival. Often ended so the great revolutions of the early nineties. Two samples from the opposite characteristics: powerful wait-and English, and agile arrembante Italian. The first, very strong time trial, imposed prohibitive for all intervals. The second was exalted sparking the brawl uphill. Together, they made even the largest Tour of Italy and the Tour de France, Cori in which, despite the obvious final - the navarro in pink or yellow and green or polka-dot jersey in Varese - the show was guaranteed.
1992, THE FIRST MATCH IN PINK
For Indurain 1992 is the year of a row in yellow and mating Giro-Tour double that Navarro will repeat the following season.
The first success of a English rider in the Tour of Italy, centered by Miguel at the first attempt is made even more significant by the great value of the claimants to the ultimate success: retired on the eve of the French Bernard street, the lot of the favorites include the Fignon Jalabert and his countrymen, the American Hampsten, Kelly Irish, Latvian and Italians Ugrumov Chiappucci, Lelli, Gotti and Giovannetti.
Since preliminary time trial of the leader of the Banesto Genova suggests that he came to the Giro to win and not to prepare for the Tour, and it sells for only 3 "in a short time trial specialist, Frenchman Thierry Marie, the first pink jersey .
In the third stage, the olive grove Spa-Arezzo, Indurain breaks the plunge and took first. In the time trial the next day, from Arezzo to Sansepolcro, taking the lead heavy then will only handle with great tactical intelligence. Spend free
the Dolomites, the Alps takes a champion Finally, sealed the victory with an extraordinary display against time in the final stage, the 22nd, from Vigevano Milan, swept the remarkable average of 50.127 km / h. Along the way Miguel
Chiappucci that even reaches the second in the standings, was third party 'before him. The Varese, with a surge of pride keeps about twenty yards ahead, although among those who work in the common belief is that English did not want to humiliate it, surpassing, the brave Italian runners.
The ultimate success does not admit of discussion: Indurain, rose in the third last lap, leaving a 5'12 "and 7'16 Chiappucci a spiral, the Italians that keep him company on the podium. To crown the domain of Miguel, the blue jersey of the winner Intergiro. A ROSE IN THE
The second, consecutive victory Indurain in the Tour of Italy to humanize the English champion, which for the first time is really in trouble: going into the penultimate stage, which ends with a hard climb to the Sanctuary Oropa. Miguel is in pink and Ugrumov attacks him thoroughly in an attempt to reassemble the gap of 1'34 "that separates him from the championship leader. Indurain gives a crash and must use all his willpower to keep the jersey. We will succeed, but crossed the line, will be forced to lean on the stage of the jury, exhausted. Historical image and its drama competitive spirit, unforgettable, poignant "beauty."
Unlike the previous round, this time Indurain does not appear in top form, but finds an unusual ally in Moreno Argentin. The Venetian, which boasts an outstanding career as a hunter classic, as the leader's jersey in the first stage and then, for ten days, the team wisely pilot to control the race. The Navarro took the opportunity to recover the best condition in view of the time trial in Senigallia, scheduled at the tenth stage. In those 28 km against the clock to try and win the English conquest of the pink jersey then submit, to the 11th stage, the surprising Bruno Leali, before you take it up again in the 14th fraction, the Tappone Corvara. Eventually the navarro triumphs with 58 "and up Ugrumov 5'27" on Chiappucci now subscribed to the podium.
AROUND 1994, THE LOSS OF TRIS
In 1994, when all come to expect the fantastic trio consecutive Giro-Tour, Indurain king must abdicate, even if only in the Giro, two young scatenatissimi: Russian Eugeni Berzin and Marco Romagna Pantani. Miguel defeated their on the ground most favorable to him: The race against time, especially on which he built the two consecutive one-two in pink and yellow. In
chronometer in Follonica Grosseto, the eighth stage, Berzin gives a sound lesson to Indurain, who must settle for third place, also preceded by former wingman Armand De Las Cuevas. Against the best
Berzin Pantani's career and a wonderful protagonist in the mountains, Miguel - back from a preparation reduced by trouble in the knee suffered early in the season - the Tour ends on the third step of the podium, with 3'23 "of delay Berzin and 32 from behind Pantani. The interregnum in his pink ends there.
INDURAIN
Miguelon STORY, THE CHAMPION GENTLEMAN
Larraya Miguel Indurain was born July 16, 1964 in Villa, the English town of about ten thousand inhabitants located near Pamplona, \u200b\u200bin the autonomous community of Navarre.
approaches to cycling fairly random, covering cycling the 26 miles that separate Elloriz Villa, the mother country.
At age 11 he won his first race, wearing the colors of the Club Ciclista Villavés. Indurain phrase that describes the award is to be read: "A bocadillo a Fanta y, y eso me gusta" ("a sandwich and a Fanta, and I was happy").
national amateur champion in 1983, go pro in September 1984 and since then militerà in the same sports team, before Reynolds and Banesto, led by José Miguel Echavarri, ds that already has two years in their amateur team.
first win of Indurain among professionals is a fraction of the Tour de L'Avenir, stage race that conquisteràdue years later, in 1986. In 1985 he participated for the first time in the Tour, but retreat to the fourth stage. A year later, its successor the 12th. The first tour, which concludes that the 1987 is: 97 ° in two hours, 53'11 "behind winner Stephen Roche. In the "Grande Boucle" in 1988 is the victorious faithful squire of Pedro Delgado, dates back to 1989 and its first partial victory, arrived for posting Pau in Cauterets. In 1990
triumphs in the Pyrenean stage to Luz Ardiden, and is ranked tenth in 12'47 ".
In 1991 he won his first Tour - with a great action in the Pyrenees in the company of the future to rival Chiappucci Val Louron - and two time trials, Alençon and Macon. In 1992, centers the Giro-Tour double, a company which unites him to the great Anquetil, Coppi, Merckx, Hinault and Roche, and bisser the next year.
On September 2, 1994, in the Bordeaux velodrome, breaking the record time, with 53.040 km, surpassing the record of 327 meters Scotsman Graeme Obree. But the new limit, obtained with a bicycle instead of traditional special in 2000 will approved by the UCI in the "best human performance."
TIME OF MIGUEL
to suggest that Miguel Indurain will come close in record time, the barrier of 55 km - in an attempt to 2250 meters of altitude of Mexico City - is the result of evidence that the Navarro finished the ellipse covered with Bordeaux. Over that distance, 53.040 km in sixty minutes, to convince him was his execution of the first attempt. There is still the
Indurain who can ride from start to finish on the measuring line of the roadway (more than once, his front wheel pointing left or right) but one patient, persistent training specifically allow him to make progress then that will help to improve performance.
For Indurain, in fact, is not a question of power. Miguel expresses a durable power of 550 watts, has a lung capacity of eight liters, the heart to pump 50 liters of blood per minute, the heart rate of 28 beats at rest, 190 and 150 during the maximum effort after a few seconds: a machine that scientists have called perfect, able to operate longer than those used in reports, still in Mexico, Merckx and Moser.
THE GOLDEN SUNSET
In 1995 he won his fifth and final Tour de France (Filotto failed even by Merckx, Hinault and Anquetil, and then surpassed only by Armstrong that he will win seven in a row) and the time trial at world championship Duitama, Colombia. In this edition of the World also won second place in the road test, behind compatriot Abraham Olano and blue Marco Pantani, beaten with a furious sprint. For Indurain is the third podium after the bronze in Stuttgart in 1991 (behind Bugno and Rooks) and the second silver after Oslo 1993 (behind Armstrong).
In 1996, his last professional season, winning the gold medal in the time trial at the Olympics in Atlanta. The best choice for starting a career that has seen victory in 111 races, including the Clásica de San Sebastián (1990), and the one-two consecutive in Paris-Nice (1989 and 1990) and the Tour of Catalonia (1991 and 1992). As the only worry, most of the criticism that his English, the lack of feeling for the Vuelta, which finished second in the race in 1991.
ONE SPOT FOR CYCLING
Indurain was a great propagandist of his sport. Not only because it was a pleasure to see in action a runner of her size (1.88 x 78 kg), but also because running out and has never allowed a gesture out of place, a statement peppered or a polemic, always composed also in less favorable times, a gentleman at all times. Clean the face of cycling. A commercial for the movement, even nell'addio. Unlike
Merckx, who acted with fury, and also by Hinault, Miguel sipped the pedal strokes with elegance and it is rarely seen in difficulties, let alone a crisis. And just realized that his engine was about to falter, in January 1996 fell by bike with a smile, saying "no thanks" to various positions because he felt indebted to the family. In addition to his farm, Miguel today deals with various economic activities (car dealerships, warehouses, sports), but still follows the cycling headings for treating the English press on the occasion of big international races.
Chiappucci STORY
Claudio Chiappucci, one of the most popular cyclists of the nineties, was born in Uboldo (Varese), the February 28, 1963.
climber, goes pro at the time of Carrera Roberto Visentin, Stephen Roche and Guido Bontempi.
After many years of gregarious (and the only plaque Cup trophy in 1989), leaps to the headlines in the Tour de France in 1990, entering into what appears to one of the many joints-bin that characterize the first days of the "Grande Boucle ". Instead, the action goes in port and more than 10 'ahead of the favorites. In the later stages of his former comrades escape (Steve Bauer, Frans Maassen and Ronan Pensec) retreat in the standings, he did not: indeed, wearing the yellow jersey for eight stages, from the 13th to the penultimate. The decisive time trial. Chiappucci part with 5 " ahead of the big favorite Greg Lemond, the Tour that blows them away to the still shocking, and surprising, the final seconds. Claudio is the first Italian to reach the podium in Paris since 1972, when Felice Gimondi finished second behind Eddy Merckx.
discovered the sample, the "Bottom" won the Milan-San Remo with a memorable solo flight, the Tour of the Apennines, the Gran Premio di San Sebastian, the Three Valleys Varesine, the Giro del Piemonte, the Tour of Catalonia, the Catalan Week , the Tour of the Basque Country, three stages of the Tour de France.
Lots of great and often their placings. Two times second in the Tour (behind Lemond, Indurain later) and the Tour (behind the first of snails, then Indurain), placed at the '94 World of Agrigento, won by Frenchman Luc Leblanc. In
career has had to confront - as well as Gianni Bugno, rival off the track and race - with another great champion, Miguel Indurain, who recovered in time trials, and with interest in what had to give up Sciapussì (so The French called it, with a hint of snobbery, the generous and combative Italian climber). Twice
best grimpeur Tour ('91 and '92) and Giro ('92 and '93), as soon as the road climbed was capable of companies that sent the crowd into a frenzy.
memory, the 1992 Tour, his flight of over 223 km (Of which 126 alone) and in Sestriere saw him remove all his opponents, including Bugno and Indurain, who eventually win for the second consecutive time the Tour de France.
Claudio is considered one of the athletes who have contributed most to grow cyclist Marco Pantani, the other strong personalities with whom he had several disagreements. Of those he has always had in the group. Chiappucci is what in slang is called a "Parlon, and often sends them to say. One
so like the people, divide the fans but it is sometimes frowned upon by his colleagues, at which arouses send and dislikes. In addition, running Chiappucci is a "disturbing" because it breaks the rules, breaks the balance. If you see an overpass, take. And the platoon, gladly would travel at high speeds even when quiet, like the right.
Perhaps for this reason its decline, which lasted a couple of seasons, go almost unnoticed. And when they found a rate of hematocrit is too high for him it's time to say stop.
THE
Chiappucci after the race - known as El Diablo since the time of his first races in South America - today is devoted to bicycle racing. In 2006, pending a public relations role that cycling has not yet been able to give him, did the reality show Castaway Island famous. Indurain was not there, but Claudio was second there too.
A RIVALRY WITH TWO WINNERS
Extraordinary champion, Miguel Indurain was the first rider to win five consecutive Tour de France. Long-distance rider of great talent, even exceptional time trial, he knew suffering uphill, facing at its own pace, without ever getting up from his seat. On that ground, however, were runner Daltri Claudio Chiappucci time, which will also have won little but was able to give so much in terms of emotions, and his public.
"My victories were not so beautiful, if I had not had an opponent like Chiappucci," said the Spaniard's career at the end of Diablo, perhaps his most tenacious and uncompromising opponent.
Together have created a passionate rivalry made up of large companies and memorable challenges: the class and head to the heart and courage. Cycling at its best.
Debate Of The Sale Of Human Organs
Bobet vs Nencini, the heroic era of modern cycling
has not been a rivalry in the classic sense that between the French and Italian Gastone Nencini Louison Bobet, the stars of cycling at the turn of the fifties and sixties. A bit 'for reasons why a lot of character and the career of the Tuscan was for life and wealth of Palmares, below the expectations raised by its class.
had talent in abundance also Breton, a predestined pedal but never stopped working on with the same tenacity and determination. Qualities that not even lacked the Lion of the Mugello, which just could not save. In racing as in life.
Their big battleground was the Tour of Italy in 1957, an edition full of emotions and that will be decided on the very edge of the latter. Nineteen, to be precise.
BIG CLASH, THE TURN OF 1957
A year later stage from the horde who delivered Charly Gaul to the myth, it is the strongest climber Bondone make Luxembourg the big loser of the Giro. The Tour of Italy in 1957 it won the Gastone Nencini, who takes revenge after so the insult suffered two years ago, when Magni and Bent had attacked him, taking advantage of its drilling.
Again the Giro is decided in the final and so sensational, with the "Lion of the Mugello" at the end of the check against the new rival: the Frenchman Louison Bobet. In
Como-Bondone, 19th stage, Gaul is pink jersey. In places Ospitaletto the leader of stops to fulfill a need, "physiological". And that's when the attack is unleashed Bobet, which engage and Nencini neoprofessionista Ercole Baldini. The group broke up, Gaul remained behind and eventually will come on top of the Bondone with the first ten minutes of posting. Nencini takes the pink jersey and then defend it until the end, with 19 "lead over Bobet, second. Sounds like the beginning
a long and passionate rivalry, but the career of Tuscany - which will reach the pinnacle by winning the Tour de France in 1960 - will not keep all the promises.
NENCINI STORY
Bilancino Fiorentino, Barberino del Mugello, where he was born on March 1, 1930, Gastone Nencini won in 24 career races including the Tour of Italy stand out in 1957 and the Tour de France 1960. In the three Valleys trophy also Varesine of 1956, the Tour of Calabria in 1957 and the Grand Prix in Nice in 1960. Excellent
passista-climber and downhill skier, a professional from 1953 to 1965, is nicknamed "the Lion of the Mugello" for the courage and the fury that competitive running led him to give everything, without calculation, sometimes bringing unpredictable attacks and even foolish. And on many occasions simply unlucky.
in Lugano in 1953 comes to a step from the amateur world title. Alone in the lead, after several escape attempts, it reached its goal on another blue, Riccardo Filippi, who then beat in the sprint.
In 1955 he lost by a narrow margin, and in a non-sporty, the Tour of Italy. In the pink jersey in two stages from the end, still on foot by a puncture and is attacked by Fiorenzo Magni, who then win that edition, and Fausto Coppi. The two defectors arrive in San Pellegrino without the group, including fellow Nencini, try to at least going to take them back.
Gaston goes back in 1957 thanks to the attack - led by Bobet, Geminiani and Baldini - the pink jersey Gaul, and the courageous descent of the pass. The victory appears to be proper recognition for the lack of success of the first two years. At the 1958 World
Gaston plays an important work for the fellow in blue Ercole Baldini, world champion in front of Reims just Bobet, according to 2'09 "from Romagna.
Thanks to its extraordinary quality of downhill Nencini won the Tour in 1960, in the edition which does not indicate a successful stop, but he won when his main rival, Frenchman Roger Riviere, in an attempt to keep up with the wheel sharply, falls - with tragic consequences - in a ravine.
THE TOUR OF 1960 The
Roger Rivière at the start of the Tour de France of 1960 is in condition prodigious. But in the end, unfortunately the image that remains indelible in the memories of all is that of the Frenchman lying motionless on the branches, down the slope. escarpment in the chase during the yellow jersey Nencini, during the stage-Millau Avignon, the French make a wrong turn down the slope of the hill of Perjuret. All for one week after the race, since there just made explosive by the imposing Rivière.
between Lorient and Saint-Malo had launched a tough offensive against the partner Henri Anglade, at that moment leader of the championship. After the success in Lorient and Pau, Roger aimed to limit the damage to the Alps to play my best in the 19th stage time trial in Besançon from Pontarlier. But the damn fall will prevent him from play. And so it is up to Nencini triumph in yellow at the Parc des Princes, with 5'2 "on another Italian, Graziano Battistini. The flowers of the winner will then be deposited on the hospital bed on which lies Rivière, whose career had been broken down in the crowds.
THE EARLY SUNSET
won the "Grande Boucle", although only thirty, for a premature start Nencini the sudden decline. The reluctance to submit to strict rules the life of an athlete and some unfortunate episode (on all the disastrous fall on the cross of Calenzano followed by a long break and a difficult recovery) led him to four years of melancholy sunset.
In 1965, the last of 13 seasons in pro ', is called by Bartolozzi Filotex to do for the young hen. Closed career, is the sports director of professional teams, and Springoil Max Mayer. In 1969, his runner, Claudio Michelotto, close to victory in the Tour of Italy finishing in second place, 3'35 "behind winner Gimondi.
Nencini died in Florence on February 1, 1980 for an incurable disease that, in a few months, it had undermined the very strong temper.
Bobet STORY
Born in Brittany, Saint-Méen-le-Grand, March 12, 1925, Louis Bobet is one of the foremost artists of cycling gold of the 50s. Thanks to his temperament as a fighter and extraordinary courage, collect a prize list of the most important in the history of cycling and has become one of the most loved by the French riders.
When Louis-Pierre-Marie is 21 months, hanging on the fireplace for Christmas is a biciclettina on which, three months later, begin to pedal. Abandoned
loves youth sports - football (to be promising midfielder right) and table tennis (played in the OCC, a company which also includes father and mother Celine Louis), continues working in the bakery his father, getting up at five in the morning to move bags of flour a quintal. A work that strengthens the parent awards and a racing bike "Stella."
Louis Jr. reads all of the Tour and is passionate about the exploits of Bartali at the "Grande Boucle" in 1938. Meanwhile, he runs with the so-called "non-redundant" and in 1942 won the first race, in Montauban. A year later in Lamballe beats all in a race official.
During the Second World War, joining a resistance group in 1944 that captures an ambulance and prisoner is a German colonel. Participate in activities organized to flush out Nazi troops from Lorient. Is enlisted in the 41st Regiment Infantry and learn discipline.
amateur champion of France in 1946, passes professional a year later, just 22 years old, and gets away, May 12, the unexpected triumph in the classic Boucles de la Seine 260 km, removing all before entering the rink with a Buffalo advantage of over 6 '.
technical director Leo Veron convenes for the Tour de France - then reserved for national teams - clashes with the harshness of the Alps, and was forced to retire. It is on this occasion that he is saddled with the nickname Louison, when, after a fall in the stage of Digne, indulges in a crying on the side of the road and retired.
In 1948, he again the "Grande Boucle", called the new Maurice Archambaud dt, this time with the goal to win, but the infection in the foot prevents him from keeping the yellow jersey, won the Cannes-Sanremo. The ambitious champion Breton, who had won the stage in Biarritz, seemed destined to fly to Paris in yellow jersey and instead will be swept away by Hurricane Bartali, ruler of three consecutive stages when crossing the Alps The French resist, however, until eventually finishing 4th at 32 'from Ginettaccio that, ten years after the first success, he returned the king of France.
Bobet has better luck in the races online. In 1950 he won his first great success as a professional French National Championship. The following year, there is the Milan-San Remo. Bevilacqua mocked by the Italian at the finish line of the Paris-Roubaix, Louison draws at the end of the season by winning the Giro di Lombardia. But the appointment with the "Queen of the pave" has only been postponed.
skipped the Tour of '52 for an error in preparation, in that at the start of 1953 Bobet is well aware of its strength and supported by a team at his disposal. Sbaraglia with disarming ease the opposition of the Swiss compatriot Jean Robic and Hugo Koblet; the Izoard, which had been fatal in its first appearance at the Tour, this time established him as the king of rock climbers. And so, the sixth attempt, Breton finally wins his first Tour de France.
1954 and for the year dell'apoteosi Louison, not only repeating the triumph in the "Grande Boucle", this time beating the English climber Federico Bahamontes right on the big climbs, but also won the World Championship in Solingen, Germany , before the Swiss Fritz Schaer.
Bobet is now assumed the role of an idol of the French. Tour of '55, offers fans one of the most beautiful pages in the history of cycling, undermined by the emerging Charly Gaul, the Alps, which has trimmed a quarter of an hour of posting, Louison seems on the verge of collapse, even because of a painful wound to soprassella. On the day of ascent to Mont Ventoux, two-time French champion, also won that year's Tour of Flanders, shows off his huge class and all. And the third success in the Tour enters the elite of famous.
In 1956, without having disposed of the aftermath of surgery to soprassella suffered the previous November, participate in the Vuelta but retreat and then must give up the Tour de France. Save the season, however imposing in the Paris-Roubaix, after putting down the shots to repeat the Belgian Rik Van Steenbergen.
The 1957 is a year for the trans black, studded with four second places: at the National Criterium, the Belgian World of Waregem (Van Steenbergen won dall'idolo home), the Paris-Tours (behind another Belgian, Fred De Bruyne) and, above all, the Tour of Italy.
In that edition of the Giro Bobet was beaten by Gastone Nencini for only 19 seconds. The French team, however, the charge of misconduct Italian fans, who are accused of pushing, climbing, their riders and the obstruction of those opponents. Bobet closes the season without a win and the next, with consecutive second place at the World Cup (won in Reims, France, from light Ercole Baldini), marks the beginning of the decline to Louison.
the end of his career, however, is evidenced by a non-competitive event: Bobet decide the following automobile accident in which the victim December 15, 1961, in Montry, with his brother John, returning from a charity event in Brussels. By Jean opened a factory in thalassotherapy. He died of cancer, in Biarritz, March 13, 1983, the day after completing 58 years.
DAWN OF A NEW ERA
Brave, strong-willed, meticulous, forward: these are recurring adjectives Louison Bobet. A worker who was able to build the bicycle champion, day after day, with an innate ability to suffer in the race and out.
Rules aside, the same features for its fleeting rival Gastone Nencini, just pure talent but in the race attacked perhaps even when not needed. And as they went close to the severe restrictions of the typical life of an athlete.
Together they nevertheless marked an era, one that marked the transition from cycling hero of World War II to the modern. Giving, in the process, companies and memorable emotions.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com 
has not been a rivalry in the classic sense that between the French and Italian Gastone Nencini Louison Bobet, the stars of cycling at the turn of the fifties and sixties. A bit 'for reasons why a lot of character and the career of the Tuscan was for life and wealth of Palmares, below the expectations raised by its class.
had talent in abundance also Breton, a predestined pedal but never stopped working on with the same tenacity and determination. Qualities that not even lacked the Lion of the Mugello, which just could not save. In racing as in life.
Their big battleground was the Tour of Italy in 1957, an edition full of emotions and that will be decided on the very edge of the latter. Nineteen, to be precise.
BIG CLASH, THE TURN OF 1957
A year later stage from the horde who delivered Charly Gaul to the myth, it is the strongest climber Bondone make Luxembourg the big loser of the Giro. The Tour of Italy in 1957 it won the Gastone Nencini, who takes revenge after so the insult suffered two years ago, when Magni and Bent had attacked him, taking advantage of its drilling.
Again the Giro is decided in the final and so sensational, with the "Lion of the Mugello" at the end of the check against the new rival: the Frenchman Louison Bobet. In
Como-Bondone, 19th stage, Gaul is pink jersey. In places Ospitaletto the leader of stops to fulfill a need, "physiological". And that's when the attack is unleashed Bobet, which engage and Nencini neoprofessionista Ercole Baldini. The group broke up, Gaul remained behind and eventually will come on top of the Bondone with the first ten minutes of posting. Nencini takes the pink jersey and then defend it until the end, with 19 "lead over Bobet, second. Sounds like the beginning
a long and passionate rivalry, but the career of Tuscany - which will reach the pinnacle by winning the Tour de France in 1960 - will not keep all the promises.
NENCINI STORY
Bilancino Fiorentino, Barberino del Mugello, where he was born on March 1, 1930, Gastone Nencini won in 24 career races including the Tour of Italy stand out in 1957 and the Tour de France 1960. In the three Valleys trophy also Varesine of 1956, the Tour of Calabria in 1957 and the Grand Prix in Nice in 1960. Excellent
passista-climber and downhill skier, a professional from 1953 to 1965, is nicknamed "the Lion of the Mugello" for the courage and the fury that competitive running led him to give everything, without calculation, sometimes bringing unpredictable attacks and even foolish. And on many occasions simply unlucky.
in Lugano in 1953 comes to a step from the amateur world title. Alone in the lead, after several escape attempts, it reached its goal on another blue, Riccardo Filippi, who then beat in the sprint.
In 1955 he lost by a narrow margin, and in a non-sporty, the Tour of Italy. In the pink jersey in two stages from the end, still on foot by a puncture and is attacked by Fiorenzo Magni, who then win that edition, and Fausto Coppi. The two defectors arrive in San Pellegrino without the group, including fellow Nencini, try to at least going to take them back.
Gaston goes back in 1957 thanks to the attack - led by Bobet, Geminiani and Baldini - the pink jersey Gaul, and the courageous descent of the pass. The victory appears to be proper recognition for the lack of success of the first two years. At the 1958 World
Gaston plays an important work for the fellow in blue Ercole Baldini, world champion in front of Reims just Bobet, according to 2'09 "from Romagna.
Thanks to its extraordinary quality of downhill Nencini won the Tour in 1960, in the edition which does not indicate a successful stop, but he won when his main rival, Frenchman Roger Riviere, in an attempt to keep up with the wheel sharply, falls - with tragic consequences - in a ravine.
THE TOUR OF 1960 The
Roger Rivière at the start of the Tour de France of 1960 is in condition prodigious. But in the end, unfortunately the image that remains indelible in the memories of all is that of the Frenchman lying motionless on the branches, down the slope. escarpment in the chase during the yellow jersey Nencini, during the stage-Millau Avignon, the French make a wrong turn down the slope of the hill of Perjuret. All for one week after the race, since there just made explosive by the imposing Rivière.
between Lorient and Saint-Malo had launched a tough offensive against the partner Henri Anglade, at that moment leader of the championship. After the success in Lorient and Pau, Roger aimed to limit the damage to the Alps to play my best in the 19th stage time trial in Besançon from Pontarlier. But the damn fall will prevent him from play. And so it is up to Nencini triumph in yellow at the Parc des Princes, with 5'2 "on another Italian, Graziano Battistini. The flowers of the winner will then be deposited on the hospital bed on which lies Rivière, whose career had been broken down in the crowds.
THE EARLY SUNSET
won the "Grande Boucle", although only thirty, for a premature start Nencini the sudden decline. The reluctance to submit to strict rules the life of an athlete and some unfortunate episode (on all the disastrous fall on the cross of Calenzano followed by a long break and a difficult recovery) led him to four years of melancholy sunset.
In 1965, the last of 13 seasons in pro ', is called by Bartolozzi Filotex to do for the young hen. Closed career, is the sports director of professional teams, and Springoil Max Mayer. In 1969, his runner, Claudio Michelotto, close to victory in the Tour of Italy finishing in second place, 3'35 "behind winner Gimondi.
Nencini died in Florence on February 1, 1980 for an incurable disease that, in a few months, it had undermined the very strong temper.
Bobet STORY
Born in Brittany, Saint-Méen-le-Grand, March 12, 1925, Louis Bobet is one of the foremost artists of cycling gold of the 50s. Thanks to his temperament as a fighter and extraordinary courage, collect a prize list of the most important in the history of cycling and has become one of the most loved by the French riders.
When Louis-Pierre-Marie is 21 months, hanging on the fireplace for Christmas is a biciclettina on which, three months later, begin to pedal. Abandoned
loves youth sports - football (to be promising midfielder right) and table tennis (played in the OCC, a company which also includes father and mother Celine Louis), continues working in the bakery his father, getting up at five in the morning to move bags of flour a quintal. A work that strengthens the parent awards and a racing bike "Stella."
Louis Jr. reads all of the Tour and is passionate about the exploits of Bartali at the "Grande Boucle" in 1938. Meanwhile, he runs with the so-called "non-redundant" and in 1942 won the first race, in Montauban. A year later in Lamballe beats all in a race official.
During the Second World War, joining a resistance group in 1944 that captures an ambulance and prisoner is a German colonel. Participate in activities organized to flush out Nazi troops from Lorient. Is enlisted in the 41st Regiment Infantry and learn discipline.
amateur champion of France in 1946, passes professional a year later, just 22 years old, and gets away, May 12, the unexpected triumph in the classic Boucles de la Seine 260 km, removing all before entering the rink with a Buffalo advantage of over 6 '.
technical director Leo Veron convenes for the Tour de France - then reserved for national teams - clashes with the harshness of the Alps, and was forced to retire. It is on this occasion that he is saddled with the nickname Louison, when, after a fall in the stage of Digne, indulges in a crying on the side of the road and retired.
In 1948, he again the "Grande Boucle", called the new Maurice Archambaud dt, this time with the goal to win, but the infection in the foot prevents him from keeping the yellow jersey, won the Cannes-Sanremo. The ambitious champion Breton, who had won the stage in Biarritz, seemed destined to fly to Paris in yellow jersey and instead will be swept away by Hurricane Bartali, ruler of three consecutive stages when crossing the Alps The French resist, however, until eventually finishing 4th at 32 'from Ginettaccio that, ten years after the first success, he returned the king of France.
Bobet has better luck in the races online. In 1950 he won his first great success as a professional French National Championship. The following year, there is the Milan-San Remo. Bevilacqua mocked by the Italian at the finish line of the Paris-Roubaix, Louison draws at the end of the season by winning the Giro di Lombardia. But the appointment with the "Queen of the pave" has only been postponed.
skipped the Tour of '52 for an error in preparation, in that at the start of 1953 Bobet is well aware of its strength and supported by a team at his disposal. Sbaraglia with disarming ease the opposition of the Swiss compatriot Jean Robic and Hugo Koblet; the Izoard, which had been fatal in its first appearance at the Tour, this time established him as the king of rock climbers. And so, the sixth attempt, Breton finally wins his first Tour de France.
1954 and for the year dell'apoteosi Louison, not only repeating the triumph in the "Grande Boucle", this time beating the English climber Federico Bahamontes right on the big climbs, but also won the World Championship in Solingen, Germany , before the Swiss Fritz Schaer.
Bobet is now assumed the role of an idol of the French. Tour of '55, offers fans one of the most beautiful pages in the history of cycling, undermined by the emerging Charly Gaul, the Alps, which has trimmed a quarter of an hour of posting, Louison seems on the verge of collapse, even because of a painful wound to soprassella. On the day of ascent to Mont Ventoux, two-time French champion, also won that year's Tour of Flanders, shows off his huge class and all. And the third success in the Tour enters the elite of famous.
In 1956, without having disposed of the aftermath of surgery to soprassella suffered the previous November, participate in the Vuelta but retreat and then must give up the Tour de France. Save the season, however imposing in the Paris-Roubaix, after putting down the shots to repeat the Belgian Rik Van Steenbergen.
The 1957 is a year for the trans black, studded with four second places: at the National Criterium, the Belgian World of Waregem (Van Steenbergen won dall'idolo home), the Paris-Tours (behind another Belgian, Fred De Bruyne) and, above all, the Tour of Italy.
In that edition of the Giro Bobet was beaten by Gastone Nencini for only 19 seconds. The French team, however, the charge of misconduct Italian fans, who are accused of pushing, climbing, their riders and the obstruction of those opponents. Bobet closes the season without a win and the next, with consecutive second place at the World Cup (won in Reims, France, from light Ercole Baldini), marks the beginning of the decline to Louison.
the end of his career, however, is evidenced by a non-competitive event: Bobet decide the following automobile accident in which the victim December 15, 1961, in Montry, with his brother John, returning from a charity event in Brussels. By Jean opened a factory in thalassotherapy. He died of cancer, in Biarritz, March 13, 1983, the day after completing 58 years.
DAWN OF A NEW ERA
Brave, strong-willed, meticulous, forward: these are recurring adjectives Louison Bobet. A worker who was able to build the bicycle champion, day after day, with an innate ability to suffer in the race and out.
Rules aside, the same features for its fleeting rival Gastone Nencini, just pure talent but in the race attacked perhaps even when not needed. And as they went close to the severe restrictions of the typical life of an athlete.
Together they nevertheless marked an era, one that marked the transition from cycling hero of World War II to the modern. Giving, in the process, companies and memorable emotions.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com
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Bugno vs. Chiappucci, the most loved by Italians
Bugno or Chiappucci? A rivalry that perhaps it is consumed more in the newspapers that in a race but has the same passionate fans. Claudia and John, friends, enemies, in the early 90's have divided Italy as in the best traditions of our cycling. And what happened to the protagonists of the great duels of the past, right to enter one of the most loved by Italians.
AGAINST INDURAIN only the crumbs
Bartali and Coppi, Gimondi and Motta, Moser and Saronni: Cycling - especially our - lives of duels, major confrontations: against each other. The fans need a kind of derby, to catch fire as a victory for their favorite rub your hands for the debacle of the opponent. And if the rivalries are not there, if they invent. At least in part has been so perhaps for that between Gianni Bugno and Claudio Chiappucci, two very different personalities, two samples, which were often crossed in early nineties. A rivalry that could have been hotter if he had not had to deal with the excessive power of Miguel Indurain. A champion who, in big stage races, the ones that bring out more fans, leaving the other for the crumbs. And it's hard to get excited for a game already decided, if not for the second and third place ... neither friends nor enemies
If you have not been bitter rivals, at least not in the classic sense, Bugno and Chiappucci some have never loved. Too different, character and run. And in their stories. Gianni has already arrived in cycling with the spotlight, as the champion to raise and then celebrate as predestined, Claudio, however, the spotlight has always had conquistarsele, elbowing, day after day. The
Brianza Brugg, Switzerland Italian, could not stand, the Diablo, the inspiration, the bombastic statements that mess up that order, the tranquility that Hans was forced inside and outside the circus of cycling.
The Varese, however, suffer to Bugno, that air detached but apparently did not prevent John, crystalline talent to win when there were more.
Their has always been a friendly but distant, knowledge among colleagues, rather than adversarial. Hard to say if and how much it is estimated, beyond the official statements. Certainly not hated. Preferred, where possible, ignore each other, keep each on his way. And when they crossed, the two must be got along the best interests of the case were his own or that community.
If the legendary stage of the Tour '92, has helped Bugno Chiappucci, it was not to tease him, but for a tactical abstruse. And, on the other hand, the lack of joy Chiappucci in blue, Benidorm '92, for a rainbow of Bugno, was due more to the bitterness of defeat to win the envy of the companion.
SIGNS OF PEACE AND
the end of their careers, we witnessed some signs of peace, to some, albeit veiled declarations of esteem. First, two-time World Champion celebrates the grit, character, courage to Chiappucci. Then the Gianburrasca of two wheels - on the eve of a World Cup to be run by the protagonist finally - send a message to Bugno: "In competition, if it comes to helping John, I'm ready to do so, because he would be the first to give me a hand, if things work out well for me. "
rivals, but always with mutual respect for those who know the toil and sacrifices inherent in any undertaking obtained by bike.
Chiappucci In '91, author, on the hill, one click commanding wins in solitude the Milan-San Remo, Bugno replicate the success of the previous edition. Without scratching the fair play, Jack, with the group arrived at 1 ', applaud the outcome of the Super Classic, because "however, won an Italian."
more vibrant tones that Claudio used to pay for those behind, that they began to shoot when he believes it was not necessary. As in July '92, in the stage of Sestriere. Going back up after many years, "El Diablo" has not forgotten: "I was angry with the Italians who had chased me - remember Claudio - The Tour spent in Italy and everyone should root for a successful blue. Including ... Bugno.
UPDATED STORY
Born February 14, 1964 in Brugg, Switzerland, to Italian parents emigrated for work, Gianni Bugno started racing at 14 years. Cyclists Monzesi grows in student achievement and the Italian Championship individual and team, the Italian Championship as an amateur second series (1983) and the Grand Prix of Liberation (1985), a springboard to the professional. In fact, in September, all'Atala, led by Franco Cribiori. Even in pro
'ascent is constant: 3 wins in 1986 (Tour of the Apennines, in front of Francesco Moser, and those of Friuli and Piedmont), 5 the following year (a round of Trentino, a Giro Apennines and the first place and in the Coppa Sabatini in Camaiore but also forfeit the 17th stage in the Giro), 8 in 1988 (including the Giro di Calabria, the Apennines tris, the stage of the Tour Limoges, during rookie after breaking his collarbone in the Giro occorsagli, and a triptych of premondiale of Verona). It is that, his first season at the Chateau d'Ax ds Gianni Stanga.
1988 was a lean year: there's the success of the Three Valleys Varesine eighth place (the best of the blue) to the French world of Chambery.
In 1989 only get three hits: the stage of the Tour of Italy Prato, Varese and the Three Valleys GP Marostica. Tour misses partial successes, but much improved its ranking: 11 º 24'12 "from leader Greg Lemond
In the winter of 1989, the turning point that will become a 'big': meeting with the Courts, Assistant Stanga, who manages to give security in the race.
1990 is the year of the explosion, 13 wins Milan-Sanremo, Giro del Trentino, Giro d'Italy (also in pink and three partial victories). On his third consecutive Tour, finished seventh (at 9'39 "from Lemond), but with two wins, Alpe d'Huez and Bordeaux. Conquer the World Cup and was third in the world of Japanese Utsunomija.
Also in 1991, but with the new team Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax, won 13 races. Among these three stages in the Tour, the encore l'Alpe d'Huez in the Tour (finished second in 3'36 "by Indurain), the Clásica San Sebastián, and in blue, the World Championships in Stuttgart.
iris STUTTGART
The 1991 German World Cup circuit is not transcendental, slightly less than 16 km and a climb back to 6 but cycling.
The race started fast under a beautiful summer sun, all in groups of up to half of the race with the blues, Guido Bontempi all, very careful.
try Chiappucci action at long range, leaving him with ten, but the effort fades. After many skirmishes
you reach the last lap. At the sound of the bell triggered the French and Italian Maurizio Fondriest Marc Madiot. It could be the decisive run, with the blue as a logical favorite, but the person remains trans wheel action terminates along the ramps Horerbopsen. We then test Golz, which runs into the house, but no luck. Moments of uncertainty, the world lives the decisive moments, the gerrachie jump and those who still have energy to go out. Start Bugno, Indurain, and Rooks Meija; have sufficient space and strength and flies toward the finish line.
The sprint is a monologue Bugno, great progression and a bit of pathos when, too early, put your hands up in triumph from the handlebars. At a glance it seems that the Dutch and English have reassembled in the finishing straight, but John is a world champion with the apparent ease of the greats. Stuttgart is tinged with blue and offers to cycling Italian one of the most beautiful pages.
ON A RAINBOW TO BENIDORM 1992
The World 1992 takes place in Spain. Hot day, challenging circuit, a little less than 22 km. The rainbow jersey you conquer the lair of the wolf, Miguel Indurain, the first and third year course on his favorite streets. The first few laps
quiet. The first real action is in the eighth round, players Jeker, Rominger, Alonso, Zarrabeitia, Nevens, blue Chioccioli, Niederberger and Roche. On the climb of Alto de Jeker Finestraat yields, while Gonzales and Leblanc report on the group's head. Time two laps and the heat and the weight of the flight put an end to the bold attempt, and the best come together. A
about 40 km from the conclusion Chiappucci, Indurain, Rominger and the fast attack Jalabert at the bottom. It looks like the good escape, but the presence of French calm minds: no one wants to arrive and be escorted to beat in the sprint. And so the action is shipwrecked. Last
around, attempts are suesseguono, until the command escape in 17 including Bugno and the beautiful Perini, respectively, the defending champion and his loyal follower. The danger is French: they are five Bleus the lead in the peloton and among them is the specter Jalabert. The comrades protect him to give him the sprint, but "Jaja" has to deal with the fantastic pedal stroke of Bugno and strength of Perini. The sprint is a all blue masterpiece: the pilot to perfection Gianni Piacentino, which is repeated in his own way. Laurent Jalabert was second, third is the Russian Dimitri Konychev.
into the sunset
World aside, the 1992 is variable. Bugno was third in the Tour - the first vacation he had sacrificed the objective of participation in the Tour - and the momentum for the second rainbow jersey, winning the Tours of Milan, Lazio and Emilia and Turin. The 1993 is the year
Fogging: 18 ° in the Giro, the Tour 20 °, and six minor hits, the crisis caused by the separation from his wife Vincent, who gave him a son, Alexei.
The next year is the mcchia coffee color of his career: he runs with Polti, won the Flanders, is 8 ° in the Giro, he retires to the Tour, but the blow comes on the eve of World of Agrigento. Positive for caffeine in Agostoni. Farewell tris world.
Those spots (COFFEE) FOR TOO
The world championships of 1994 are held in Italy, Agrigento. Gianni Bugno points to the third jersey. His year is not to remember, but with the Monza - for better or for worse - the odds are impossible.
Gianni won the Tour of Flanders, but the moral, as usual, is fluctuating. To make a dangerous outsider, however, are two factors: it is not among the favorites in Sicily and the circuit seems suitable to its characteristics. But
a tile hits the blue team. At the end of the Coppa Agostoni, August 17, Bugno is found positive for caffeine. The suspension is two years. Those who know him will swear their innocence, claiming the habit of Gianni, before the races, to consume cups of coffee one after the other. According to others, caffeine was used to hide other, much less innocuous substances.
The CAS, the Court of Sport in Lausanne, reduces the stop in three months thanks to a legal technicality: the power on it to professional athletes and their federations to CONI. And according to the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) is the maximum suspension for use of caffeine.
Whatever the case, a stain never completely erased in the career of Bugno and a page that would have been better not to write.
LAST SEASONS
In 1995, the MG-Technogym Giancarlo Ferretti, won five races, including the Italian championship and the Tour of the Mediterranean. But brilliance and stimuli are dwindling. 4 wins in 1996 hits (one stage in the Giro). In 1997, the Mapei and won a stage in the Tour of Malaysia. A success in 1998, the Vuelta. Then, after the 12th pick in the world and Lombardy, says goodbye to the races. THE FAREWELL PARTY
seigiornisti A challenge to a scratch test. So leave the scene, on the eve of 35 years, February 13, 1999 in Milan, the Italian cyclist's largest class of the decade. In 14 seasons as a pro, 71 hits, on any terrain. To frame the career Indurain just a phrase: "It was the strongest of us all." Investiture, which is worth a thousand trophies.
Chiappucci STORY
climber, small (1.72 x 65 kg) and ungainly appearance, Claudio Chiappucci was born in Uboldo (Varese) February 28, 1963. Professional since 1985, before becoming "el Diablo", with cold runner, spent the Carrera a long follower.
The first success in the Cup Placci (1989), then there's the Milan-San Remo with a solo flight, the Tour of the Apennines, the GP of San Sebastián, the Three Valleys Varesine the Tour Piedmont, the Tour of Catalonia, the Catalan Week, the Tour of the Basque Country, three stages of the Tour is controversial and podiums in series: the second in the Giro twice ('91 and '92) and the "Grande Boucle" ( in '90 behind Lemond, Indurain back in '92, plus the third place in '91) and the World of Agrigento, won by Leblanc.
TOUR 1990, Lady Beware
The great cycling finds that champion almost by accident that still does not know it. Tour In '90, the first stage, in Claudio enters one of the many joints-bin that characterize the "Grande Boucle". The group leaves do, but the fugitives - with Italian, Steve Bauer, Frans Maassen and Ronan Pensec - will reach the bottom and with 10 'lead. Chiappucci dresses in yellow and there is 8 days, before succumbing in the penultimate stage time trial to the overwhelming power of Greg Lemond, who on the final podium in Paris is the first in front of Carneades Varese.
SETRA 1992, COMPANY OF OTHER TIMES
But the real enterprise, a rider from another era, the central Chiappucci the Tour in 1992. In the polka dot jersey of best climber and historic landmark, the 13th of Sestriere: a memorable flight, which lasted seven hours, 223 km to the attack of which 126 alone, before winning with his arms raised after an ascent of 11 km average gradient of 6.2% but with features that exceed 10%. Claudio
view Iseran salutes the company with which, at the 14th km, had concocted the action. Indurain leave it, but when the advantage reaches 5 'Bugno tries to mend the breach. The Spaniard, Vona and the American Hampsten are queued. On the Mont Cenis, Chiappucci passes with 3'33 on Bugno and Indurain, 4'03 on the other two. A 10 km to go, Jack collapses. Hampsten is in crisis, Vona resists. Indurain reacts, but also the 2 km wide navarro must surrender to the superiority of the hero of the day, first in front of Vona and 1'45 "for Miguel, which pulls the yellow surprise at the French Pascal Lino. For English Banesto will the first of two shotguns Giro-Tour.
AGRIGENTO 1994, THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY NOT
In 1994, running in Italy, Agrigento, the 61st edition of the World Championships, on a selective route that spans the Valley of the Temples, 13 km to be repeated 19 times.
The first is to try the Colombian Raul Montana, which remains in front of a hundred miles. In the defining moment, the Bad luck against Gianluca Bortolami, the blue in better shape. A puncture, while the brawl broke out, he takes away from the games. At the command remains
fifteen elements present Ghirotto, Cenghialta, Cassani and Sorensen. Chiappucci pay a moment of inattention, then dragging the hub within the French Virenque and Leblanc. The Dane Sorensen attempts to force action on a tour of the conclusion, but no luck. The last step, the ramp arrival, stretch and our trans Leblanc, generous Ghirotto. Chiappucci with Virenque wheel chasing a few tens of meters, when the climb gets tougher Luc Leblanc off the Dormouse es'invola to success, the first of a French 14 years after that of Bernard Hinault. Chiappucci and Virenque Clutching the Ghirotto exhausted, then the fourth, and stood on the podium at 9 "from the winner.
DECLINE
The last two years are, however, inglorious career. Caught with the rate of hematocrit dancer when Chiappucci stops running in a few realize it. A pity, because it was a gladiator who has given so much to cycling. Perhaps more than he took.
was not a computer, or loved to make friends by making concessions or gifts. This sometimes annoyed his colleagues, then there is nothing to forgive. The people always loved him but because Claudio gave running the show. Needless to wonder what it could achieve by providing, in addition to an exceptional strength, instead of diplomacy that has distinguished other captains. We'll never know, perhaps it is wrong to ask ourselves: why then would no longer be him, el diablo Uboldo.
GOOD RIVALRY
A healthy rivalry, which has so well made to the cycling of the 90's: Bugno and Chiappucci, with those characters, and especially so with that understanding and interpreting different races, have made history. Their wheels have crossed on every field, especially in the Giro and the Tour and while often running for second place behind the great Indurain, have warmed the hearts of fans as not happened since the days of Moser and Saronni. Gianni and Claudio, the class or grit? Impossible not to take sides.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com 
Bugno or Chiappucci? A rivalry that perhaps it is consumed more in the newspapers that in a race but has the same passionate fans. Claudia and John, friends, enemies, in the early 90's have divided Italy as in the best traditions of our cycling. And what happened to the protagonists of the great duels of the past, right to enter one of the most loved by Italians.
AGAINST INDURAIN only the crumbs
Bartali and Coppi, Gimondi and Motta, Moser and Saronni: Cycling - especially our - lives of duels, major confrontations: against each other. The fans need a kind of derby, to catch fire as a victory for their favorite rub your hands for the debacle of the opponent. And if the rivalries are not there, if they invent. At least in part has been so perhaps for that between Gianni Bugno and Claudio Chiappucci, two very different personalities, two samples, which were often crossed in early nineties. A rivalry that could have been hotter if he had not had to deal with the excessive power of Miguel Indurain. A champion who, in big stage races, the ones that bring out more fans, leaving the other for the crumbs. And it's hard to get excited for a game already decided, if not for the second and third place ... neither friends nor enemies
If you have not been bitter rivals, at least not in the classic sense, Bugno and Chiappucci some have never loved. Too different, character and run. And in their stories. Gianni has already arrived in cycling with the spotlight, as the champion to raise and then celebrate as predestined, Claudio, however, the spotlight has always had conquistarsele, elbowing, day after day. The
Brianza Brugg, Switzerland Italian, could not stand, the Diablo, the inspiration, the bombastic statements that mess up that order, the tranquility that Hans was forced inside and outside the circus of cycling.
The Varese, however, suffer to Bugno, that air detached but apparently did not prevent John, crystalline talent to win when there were more.
Their has always been a friendly but distant, knowledge among colleagues, rather than adversarial. Hard to say if and how much it is estimated, beyond the official statements. Certainly not hated. Preferred, where possible, ignore each other, keep each on his way. And when they crossed, the two must be got along the best interests of the case were his own or that community.
If the legendary stage of the Tour '92, has helped Bugno Chiappucci, it was not to tease him, but for a tactical abstruse. And, on the other hand, the lack of joy Chiappucci in blue, Benidorm '92, for a rainbow of Bugno, was due more to the bitterness of defeat to win the envy of the companion.
SIGNS OF PEACE AND
the end of their careers, we witnessed some signs of peace, to some, albeit veiled declarations of esteem. First, two-time World Champion celebrates the grit, character, courage to Chiappucci. Then the Gianburrasca of two wheels - on the eve of a World Cup to be run by the protagonist finally - send a message to Bugno: "In competition, if it comes to helping John, I'm ready to do so, because he would be the first to give me a hand, if things work out well for me. "
rivals, but always with mutual respect for those who know the toil and sacrifices inherent in any undertaking obtained by bike.
Chiappucci In '91, author, on the hill, one click commanding wins in solitude the Milan-San Remo, Bugno replicate the success of the previous edition. Without scratching the fair play, Jack, with the group arrived at 1 ', applaud the outcome of the Super Classic, because "however, won an Italian."
more vibrant tones that Claudio used to pay for those behind, that they began to shoot when he believes it was not necessary. As in July '92, in the stage of Sestriere. Going back up after many years, "El Diablo" has not forgotten: "I was angry with the Italians who had chased me - remember Claudio - The Tour spent in Italy and everyone should root for a successful blue. Including ... Bugno.
UPDATED STORY
Born February 14, 1964 in Brugg, Switzerland, to Italian parents emigrated for work, Gianni Bugno started racing at 14 years. Cyclists Monzesi grows in student achievement and the Italian Championship individual and team, the Italian Championship as an amateur second series (1983) and the Grand Prix of Liberation (1985), a springboard to the professional. In fact, in September, all'Atala, led by Franco Cribiori. Even in pro
'ascent is constant: 3 wins in 1986 (Tour of the Apennines, in front of Francesco Moser, and those of Friuli and Piedmont), 5 the following year (a round of Trentino, a Giro Apennines and the first place and in the Coppa Sabatini in Camaiore but also forfeit the 17th stage in the Giro), 8 in 1988 (including the Giro di Calabria, the Apennines tris, the stage of the Tour Limoges, during rookie after breaking his collarbone in the Giro occorsagli, and a triptych of premondiale of Verona). It is that, his first season at the Chateau d'Ax ds Gianni Stanga.
1988 was a lean year: there's the success of the Three Valleys Varesine eighth place (the best of the blue) to the French world of Chambery.
In 1989 only get three hits: the stage of the Tour of Italy Prato, Varese and the Three Valleys GP Marostica. Tour misses partial successes, but much improved its ranking: 11 º 24'12 "from leader Greg Lemond
In the winter of 1989, the turning point that will become a 'big': meeting with the Courts, Assistant Stanga, who manages to give security in the race.
1990 is the year of the explosion, 13 wins Milan-Sanremo, Giro del Trentino, Giro d'Italy (also in pink and three partial victories). On his third consecutive Tour, finished seventh (at 9'39 "from Lemond), but with two wins, Alpe d'Huez and Bordeaux. Conquer the World Cup and was third in the world of Japanese Utsunomija.
Also in 1991, but with the new team Gatorade-Chateau d'Ax, won 13 races. Among these three stages in the Tour, the encore l'Alpe d'Huez in the Tour (finished second in 3'36 "by Indurain), the Clásica San Sebastián, and in blue, the World Championships in Stuttgart.
iris STUTTGART
The 1991 German World Cup circuit is not transcendental, slightly less than 16 km and a climb back to 6 but cycling.
The race started fast under a beautiful summer sun, all in groups of up to half of the race with the blues, Guido Bontempi all, very careful.
try Chiappucci action at long range, leaving him with ten, but the effort fades. After many skirmishes
you reach the last lap. At the sound of the bell triggered the French and Italian Maurizio Fondriest Marc Madiot. It could be the decisive run, with the blue as a logical favorite, but the person remains trans wheel action terminates along the ramps Horerbopsen. We then test Golz, which runs into the house, but no luck. Moments of uncertainty, the world lives the decisive moments, the gerrachie jump and those who still have energy to go out. Start Bugno, Indurain, and Rooks Meija; have sufficient space and strength and flies toward the finish line.
The sprint is a monologue Bugno, great progression and a bit of pathos when, too early, put your hands up in triumph from the handlebars. At a glance it seems that the Dutch and English have reassembled in the finishing straight, but John is a world champion with the apparent ease of the greats. Stuttgart is tinged with blue and offers to cycling Italian one of the most beautiful pages.
ON A RAINBOW TO BENIDORM 1992
The World 1992 takes place in Spain. Hot day, challenging circuit, a little less than 22 km. The rainbow jersey you conquer the lair of the wolf, Miguel Indurain, the first and third year course on his favorite streets. The first few laps
quiet. The first real action is in the eighth round, players Jeker, Rominger, Alonso, Zarrabeitia, Nevens, blue Chioccioli, Niederberger and Roche. On the climb of Alto de Jeker Finestraat yields, while Gonzales and Leblanc report on the group's head. Time two laps and the heat and the weight of the flight put an end to the bold attempt, and the best come together. A
about 40 km from the conclusion Chiappucci, Indurain, Rominger and the fast attack Jalabert at the bottom. It looks like the good escape, but the presence of French calm minds: no one wants to arrive and be escorted to beat in the sprint. And so the action is shipwrecked. Last
around, attempts are suesseguono, until the command escape in 17 including Bugno and the beautiful Perini, respectively, the defending champion and his loyal follower. The danger is French: they are five Bleus the lead in the peloton and among them is the specter Jalabert. The comrades protect him to give him the sprint, but "Jaja" has to deal with the fantastic pedal stroke of Bugno and strength of Perini. The sprint is a all blue masterpiece: the pilot to perfection Gianni Piacentino, which is repeated in his own way. Laurent Jalabert was second, third is the Russian Dimitri Konychev.
into the sunset
World aside, the 1992 is variable. Bugno was third in the Tour - the first vacation he had sacrificed the objective of participation in the Tour - and the momentum for the second rainbow jersey, winning the Tours of Milan, Lazio and Emilia and Turin. The 1993 is the year
Fogging: 18 ° in the Giro, the Tour 20 °, and six minor hits, the crisis caused by the separation from his wife Vincent, who gave him a son, Alexei.
The next year is the mcchia coffee color of his career: he runs with Polti, won the Flanders, is 8 ° in the Giro, he retires to the Tour, but the blow comes on the eve of World of Agrigento. Positive for caffeine in Agostoni. Farewell tris world.
Those spots (COFFEE) FOR TOO
The world championships of 1994 are held in Italy, Agrigento. Gianni Bugno points to the third jersey. His year is not to remember, but with the Monza - for better or for worse - the odds are impossible.
Gianni won the Tour of Flanders, but the moral, as usual, is fluctuating. To make a dangerous outsider, however, are two factors: it is not among the favorites in Sicily and the circuit seems suitable to its characteristics. But
a tile hits the blue team. At the end of the Coppa Agostoni, August 17, Bugno is found positive for caffeine. The suspension is two years. Those who know him will swear their innocence, claiming the habit of Gianni, before the races, to consume cups of coffee one after the other. According to others, caffeine was used to hide other, much less innocuous substances.
The CAS, the Court of Sport in Lausanne, reduces the stop in three months thanks to a legal technicality: the power on it to professional athletes and their federations to CONI. And according to the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) is the maximum suspension for use of caffeine.
Whatever the case, a stain never completely erased in the career of Bugno and a page that would have been better not to write.
LAST SEASONS
In 1995, the MG-Technogym Giancarlo Ferretti, won five races, including the Italian championship and the Tour of the Mediterranean. But brilliance and stimuli are dwindling. 4 wins in 1996 hits (one stage in the Giro). In 1997, the Mapei and won a stage in the Tour of Malaysia. A success in 1998, the Vuelta. Then, after the 12th pick in the world and Lombardy, says goodbye to the races. THE FAREWELL PARTY
seigiornisti A challenge to a scratch test. So leave the scene, on the eve of 35 years, February 13, 1999 in Milan, the Italian cyclist's largest class of the decade. In 14 seasons as a pro, 71 hits, on any terrain. To frame the career Indurain just a phrase: "It was the strongest of us all." Investiture, which is worth a thousand trophies.
Chiappucci STORY
climber, small (1.72 x 65 kg) and ungainly appearance, Claudio Chiappucci was born in Uboldo (Varese) February 28, 1963. Professional since 1985, before becoming "el Diablo", with cold runner, spent the Carrera a long follower.
The first success in the Cup Placci (1989), then there's the Milan-San Remo with a solo flight, the Tour of the Apennines, the GP of San Sebastián, the Three Valleys Varesine the Tour Piedmont, the Tour of Catalonia, the Catalan Week, the Tour of the Basque Country, three stages of the Tour is controversial and podiums in series: the second in the Giro twice ('91 and '92) and the "Grande Boucle" ( in '90 behind Lemond, Indurain back in '92, plus the third place in '91) and the World of Agrigento, won by Leblanc.
TOUR 1990, Lady Beware
The great cycling finds that champion almost by accident that still does not know it. Tour In '90, the first stage, in Claudio enters one of the many joints-bin that characterize the "Grande Boucle". The group leaves do, but the fugitives - with Italian, Steve Bauer, Frans Maassen and Ronan Pensec - will reach the bottom and with 10 'lead. Chiappucci dresses in yellow and there is 8 days, before succumbing in the penultimate stage time trial to the overwhelming power of Greg Lemond, who on the final podium in Paris is the first in front of Carneades Varese.
SETRA 1992, COMPANY OF OTHER TIMES
But the real enterprise, a rider from another era, the central Chiappucci the Tour in 1992. In the polka dot jersey of best climber and historic landmark, the 13th of Sestriere: a memorable flight, which lasted seven hours, 223 km to the attack of which 126 alone, before winning with his arms raised after an ascent of 11 km average gradient of 6.2% but with features that exceed 10%. Claudio
view Iseran salutes the company with which, at the 14th km, had concocted the action. Indurain leave it, but when the advantage reaches 5 'Bugno tries to mend the breach. The Spaniard, Vona and the American Hampsten are queued. On the Mont Cenis, Chiappucci passes with 3'33 on Bugno and Indurain, 4'03 on the other two. A 10 km to go, Jack collapses. Hampsten is in crisis, Vona resists. Indurain reacts, but also the 2 km wide navarro must surrender to the superiority of the hero of the day, first in front of Vona and 1'45 "for Miguel, which pulls the yellow surprise at the French Pascal Lino. For English Banesto will the first of two shotguns Giro-Tour.
AGRIGENTO 1994, THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY NOT
In 1994, running in Italy, Agrigento, the 61st edition of the World Championships, on a selective route that spans the Valley of the Temples, 13 km to be repeated 19 times.
The first is to try the Colombian Raul Montana, which remains in front of a hundred miles. In the defining moment, the Bad luck against Gianluca Bortolami, the blue in better shape. A puncture, while the brawl broke out, he takes away from the games. At the command remains
fifteen elements present Ghirotto, Cenghialta, Cassani and Sorensen. Chiappucci pay a moment of inattention, then dragging the hub within the French Virenque and Leblanc. The Dane Sorensen attempts to force action on a tour of the conclusion, but no luck. The last step, the ramp arrival, stretch and our trans Leblanc, generous Ghirotto. Chiappucci with Virenque wheel chasing a few tens of meters, when the climb gets tougher Luc Leblanc off the Dormouse es'invola to success, the first of a French 14 years after that of Bernard Hinault. Chiappucci and Virenque Clutching the Ghirotto exhausted, then the fourth, and stood on the podium at 9 "from the winner.
DECLINE
The last two years are, however, inglorious career. Caught with the rate of hematocrit dancer when Chiappucci stops running in a few realize it. A pity, because it was a gladiator who has given so much to cycling. Perhaps more than he took.
was not a computer, or loved to make friends by making concessions or gifts. This sometimes annoyed his colleagues, then there is nothing to forgive. The people always loved him but because Claudio gave running the show. Needless to wonder what it could achieve by providing, in addition to an exceptional strength, instead of diplomacy that has distinguished other captains. We'll never know, perhaps it is wrong to ask ourselves: why then would no longer be him, el diablo Uboldo.
GOOD RIVALRY
A healthy rivalry, which has so well made to the cycling of the 90's: Bugno and Chiappucci, with those characters, and especially so with that understanding and interpreting different races, have made history. Their wheels have crossed on every field, especially in the Giro and the Tour and while often running for second place behind the great Indurain, have warmed the hearts of fans as not happened since the days of Moser and Saronni. Gianni and Claudio, the class or grit? Impossible not to take sides.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
ch.giord @ gmail.com
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