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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

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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
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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.

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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
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