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Anquetil, the Lord of time in Italy
If the duel is that between bicycle par excellence Coppi-Bartali, France can only relate and Jacques Anquetil Raymond Poulidor. The biggest champion of the Alps 50-60 years and the most beloved by the French, in which he acknowledged. The rivalry peaked in the legendary Tour of 1964, Anquetil won on "Poupou" after being charged for the second time in the Giro. Just
on Italian roads, the "king of the time" - as he was known across the Alps - will win but suffered one of its successes, the Giro in 1960, won for just 28 "on a runner of rare determination and combativeness, the Tuscan Gastone Nencini .
NENCINI, unpredictability THE POWER
Yet that, while extraordinary, since the Giro of 1960 was not the best Nencini. Aggressive and determined runner, triumphed in the Giro and the Tour, but could have won much more. Nencini was probably stronger than the Giro 1955. In practice had already captured the pink jersey, but in the penultimate stage on the run with Magni and Coppi, pierced and farewell tour, which went to Magni for 13 "on Coppi.
If he had smoked fewer cigarettes and had been involved, Gladstone would have removed many other satisfactions. He could also prevail in the great classics, because it was a complete athlete, among the best in his day, even though it was some kind of compromise. It is easy to remember as the specimen lead to the imposition of its stroke. No one guessed I could understand the strategy: attack the way he races stunned everyone because it is often unpredictable and always generous.
TOUR 1960, the first major battle
In Coppi's death, the 43rd edition of the Tour if the award on Nencini Anquetil, Gaul and Massignan. Jacques, big chrono, you just beat the clock in the stage of Sorrento by a young man as talented as unknown: Romeo Venturelli. From authentic meteor, the next day, the victim - they say - night of celebrations based on pickles, and disappeared from the tour, in essence, from cycling. Leave it for ten days at the Belgian Hovenaerts, Anquetil takes the pink jersey in the 14th stage time trial from Lecco Seregno of 68 km and the port up to Milan.
For the first time the race climbs the Gavia, facing a dirt road. Anquetil, who suffers from the altitude, is in great difficulty. In Bormio-Trent, Gaul wins on Massignan (Nencini is third), but the pink jersey resists and saves for 28 seconds.
Anquetil STORY
Athlete fast in the sprint but able to maintain a long high speed, Anquetil was perhaps the strongest ever chrono. In time trials has built success in big stage races, including five victories in the Tour de France, a company already there, unparalleled and second Giro-Tour double after that of Fausto Coppi.
Heir of Louison Bobet, Fausto Coppi antagonist of the same, now declining, and "angel face" Charly Gaul, a specialist in climbing, horse of the 60 saw its popularity partly obscured by the most spectacular riders which Ercole Baldini, Rik Van Looy and André Darrigade.
Professional 1954 to 1969, 205 career victories, is one of four runners who were able to win the three major national tours (Tour, Giro and Vuelta).
Born on l8 January 1934 in Mont-Saint-Aignan, near Rouen (in Normandy), Anquetil was a sample of not much loved by the crowds, because of the nature shy and because of the meticulous, calculated precision of victories.
Son of strawberry growers, with their lives from 1941 to Quincampoix. The bicycle pedals from a passion of his farm until Sotteville Farmers Market, farmer's market, where his father sold its products. At age 13, on imposition of the mother, attended the industrial school to become a turner, but his dream is the bicycle. It is on that "Le Petit Jacques" becomes "Maitre Jacques," perhaps the strongest of all ages chrono.
started running seriously in 1951 at age 17. The season after, and national championships. '52 Helsinki Olympics, won bronze in the team time trial. Since just 19 years old, encouraged by Charles Pélissier and Gaston Benac, participates as an independent - then mandatory category - the Grand Prix of Nations (140 km time trial) and won with 6'16 \u200b\u200b"ahead, he will plunder of the hardest challenges against the clock. The Grand Prix of Nations race against the clock to excellence and that he did discover, he won nine times. Almost obvious that the French became "Monsieur Chrono". The
adddetti immediately interested in the work of that young man, capable of pushing long relationships with a composure only to the point that he was said to be capable of taking riding in perfect balance, on the back, a glass of champagne.
In 1954, the twenty Jacques suggests that it is not only a specialist in the race against the ticking of the hands. It is among the players in the world of Solingen, which he finished fifth ahead of his idol but Coppi. In 1955 the Norman
indirectly challenge trying to beat the hour record, held by just Campionissimo. Failed the first assault, Anquetil try again next year and this time with success: 46.159 km with time becomes the new record holder.
Towards the end of his career, after Baldwin and Rivière had wrought, and tries again and covers 47.493 km, but does not get approval because it refuses to report to doping control, which has always vigorously denied legitimacy and procedures.
Watch live as he liked and did not anticipate too much time to grow, refuses to participate in the Tour de France until 1957, when places like the French national consizione that there is the veteran Luison Bobet, his potential rival in the standings. The 23 year-old Jacques repay the confidence the first time by winning the Tour and fourth from now on the second, the Belgian Marcel Janssens. And he will be the first rider to his capable Tours France, Italy and Spain.
In fewer than 68 career wins time trial, and this dominance has been behind some of the 26 wins in stage races that are part of his rich collection. This specialization, however, the brakes in the classics is not never won the Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix or the Tour of Lombardy. Vince
instead Ghent-Wevelgem, the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Paris-Bordeaux, in which "Jacquot" is imposed 24 hours after the conclusion of a domain, on the other side of France, a hard stage race like the Giro the Dauphiné.
incurable Tombeur de femmes, lover the good life and fine food, enjoyed a drink with oysters and champagne. He said that allowed him to enjoy a cup of sleep at night without having to count sheep. And the evil commented: with what it takes to race at night really needs to sleep. "One pill does not turn into a horse colt. Those born foal, it is for life ', the controversy is intended to answer critics.
deserved at least a rainbow jersey: 5th in 1954 in Solingen, Germany was 2nd behind Rudy Altig in 1966, when - October 5 - was decorated with the Legion of Honor. Too little for a sample of the genre, the way in twelve editions.
fell by bicycle, he retires to the country to make the farmer on a large scale. He works for Radio and L'Equipe, the sports daily organizer of the Tour de France, and he was appointed coach of French national to global. Stomach cancer, after surgery, closed in 1987 an active life and unconventional, which left indelible memories.
NENCINI THE LION MUGELLO
Sling Born in Barberino del Mugello (Florence) March 1, 1930, Gastone Nencini won in 24 career races including the Tour of Italy and 1957 Tour de France 1960. Blue at the World Championships six times on the road, was nicknamed "The Lion of the Mugello for the indomitable courage and determination he showed in race. And his list could have been richer.
the Tour of Italy would prevail in 1955 if, on foot by a puncture, had not been attacked, so unsportsmanlike, by Fiorenzo Magni and Fausto Coppi who arrived in San Pellegrino alone, amid the group and in particular Nencini of teammates.
From amateur to Lugano '53 would become world champion if, when he was only head toward the finish line, was not achieved from light Riccardo Filippi, who then beat him in the sprint. Gastone not digest a defeat that easily.
In '60, for as low as 28 "Anquetil and breathed the satisfaction of being the first, after Coppi, coupled to center the Giro-Tour. Two months later, however, will fall back to the Tour de France, won after an epic battle with the great, unfortunate Roger Riviere, which ended in a ravine.
At tier-Besançon Troyes, the transition from Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, Nencini receives the congratulations of General Charles De Gaulle, from the edge of the road, he wanted to greet the stars of the "Grande Boucle", which in When they stopped to pay their respects. A Nencini us compliments of the President of France: "He fought every day as a soldier." THE REVELATION TOUR 1955
grew like the Romagna Ercole Baldini, Gastone grows John Proietti clan in blue. After depopulation in junior competitions in Tuscany, and have come second in the amateur world, go professional (as has happened successfully in almost all the students of Projects). Wood and hires him to his first Tour in 1955, is the revelation of the race.
wins the ninth stage, the Perugia-Roma, and 12 °, the Naples-Scanno. The tenth stage takes place on the circuit of Frascati, the chosen route for the World Cup that year (later won by Stan Ockers with Nencini fourth), and wins the English Ruiz. Captured the pink jersey in stages Apennines, Gastone resists so brilliantly in the Dolomites to be accommodated, from Trento, many of those sent to the rest of the race. Two days prior to arrival in Milan, Nencini is indeed still in the pink and seems unassailable. Instead, Coppi and Magni form a coalition against him, and when the Tuscan fora on a road damaged by the work in the penultimate fraction, the Trent-San Pellegrino, the off: to stage Coppi, shirt and turned Magni. Nencini For the Lion of Flanders, with the first 12 "on the champion, is the third victory in the Giro. Nencini only for the bitter last step of the podium.
1957, THE REVENGE TOUR
the San Pellegrino pass into history as one of the biggest ambushes in the history of cycling. Nencini avenge the Giro of 1957. Magni has abandoned the race. Coppi break a femur in a fall in Sardinia before the Giro. It is the year of the "historic" pee Gaul, the great favorite. During the Como-Trent, the Luxembourg stopped in prssi Ospitaletto on Bondone, the mountain where the year before, led by Learco War, had won a horde Tappone by the Italians and the French and Baldini Nencini Bobet Geminiani and attack him thoroughly. The village goes to the English sprinter Poblet, the pink jersey in Nencini, an extraordinary drop in the Simplon, which will keep it until the end.
THE TOUR OF 1960
Nencini After that success - which is charged in the classic little ownership in the sprints - wins a place in the sun in the Italian cycling. Losing those famous 28 " the Tour in 1960, now aims at the Tour, where the blue coach Alfredo Binda it does happen. Absent the great
Anquetil who sacrifices character for lack of communication with Roger Rivière, another great talent Alps, Gaston is yellow from the first day. In some moans
team to aspire to the goals partial, but when Nencini clears, and Rivière attacks, it is the only blue Gaston wheel to keep him. Thus, while the Italians will split stage wins and Rivière dell'amfetamina that sings the praises, he said, gives wings to the pedals, Nencini smokes in silence and wait for their chance.
Rivière wins at Pau, and Nencini, in Millau-Avignon jumps all the way down to the Perjuret. The Lion of Mugello has an immense courage as the misfortune of Rivière, which in turn plunges over a cliff, a dorsal vertebra and a fractured lower back, partial paralysis and a broken life shortly after, 40 years old, from a terrible disease.
THE EARLY DECLINE
If the major stage races in Italy and France were its major flaps (7 stages and 10 pink jersey in the Giro, where he settled in '57, the average record-km / h 37.488, a record that will endure up to 83, 4 stage wins and 14 days in yellow at the Tour) Nencini trophy in the Three Valleys Varesine '56, the '57 Giro di Reggio Calabria and the Nice Grand Prix '60. Important its role in sky blue. It is he who brings Ercole Baldini to the rainbow jersey in 1958 in Reims.
In 1960, though thirty years old, seems poised to other successes, but the poor attitude to life as an athlete and other accidents (the hard fall on the cross of Calenzano, which forced him to a long period of inactivity and a troubled recovery) led him to the early sudden and sad decline. Over the next four years is not clear from mediocrity and 1965, the last of his 13 seasons as a professional, is called by Bartolozzi Filotex to do the hen to a brood of young. Released by cycling, at fifty, as happened to his rival should Anquetil its end to the evil of the century, which in a few months, February 1, 1980, it stroncherà a very strong temper. Nencini fighting will go to the end, as it has done on the seat.
CHRISTIAN GIORDANO
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