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Showing posts with label Giro d'Italia. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Giro d'Italia. Show all posts

18 July 2017

Gino Bartali - cycling star and secret war hero

Tour de France champion was clandestine courier Gino Bartali on his way to victory in the 1938 Tour de France Gino Bartali, one of ...

13 January 2017

Marco Pantani - tragic cycling champion

Rider from Cesenatico won historic 'double' Marco Pantani - instantly recognisable in his trademark bandana Marco Pantani, w...

19 October 2016

Fiorenzo Magni - cycling champion

Rider from Tuscany won Giro d'Italia three times Fiorenzo Magni Italy lost one of its finest professional riders and its last lin...

13 May 2016

The first Giro d'Italia

Tour of Italy cycle race ran from Milan to Naples and back An exhausted Luigi Ganna after his 1909 Giro d'Italia triumph A fiel...

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