Name: The Beautiful Race: The Story of the Giro d'Italia (en Inglés)
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Author: O'Brien, Colin
ISBN: 9781643131580

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The Beautiful Race: The Story of the Giro d'Italia (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Colin O'Brien

Editorial

Pegasus Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

239

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.0 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.31 kg.

ISBN13

9781643131580

Categorías

Historia del deporte
Carreras de bicicletas
Ciclismo general y cicloturismo

The Beautiful Race: The Story of the Giro d'Italia (en Inglés)

Colin O'Brien (Autor) · Pegasus Books · Tapa Blanda

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Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected its home country--the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself.A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924, and Ottavio Bottecchia, expected to challenge for the winner's "Maglia Rosa," the famed pink jersey, in 1928, until he was killed on a training ride--most likely by Mussolini's Black Shirts.And what would a book about the Giro d'Italia be without Fausto Coppi, the metropolitan playboy with amphetamines in his veins, guided by a mystic blind masseur, who seemed to glide up the peaks. But let us not forget his archrival Gino Bartali--humble, pious, and brave. It recently emerged that he smuggled papers for persecuted Jewish Italians. Then there is the Giro's most tragic hero, Marco Pantani, born to climb but fated to lose.Halted only by the two World Wars, the Giro has been contested for over a century, and The Beautiful Race is a richly written celebration of this legendary sporting event.