The beautiful race : the story of the Giro d'Italia / Colin O'Brien.
A richly written celebration of the Giro d'Italia in all its kaleidoscopic glory after more than one-hundred stagings of this desperately hard race.
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Giro is born
- The early years
- Salita famosa: Roccaraso, Abruzzo
- Alfredo Binda: il Grande Antipatico
- The Devil wears wool shorts
- Salita famosa: Croce d'Aune, Veneto
- Fascism and the Giro
- Bartali and Coppi, Coppi and Bartali
- Magni: il Terzo Uomo
- Salita famosa: Passo dello Stelvio, Trentino-Alto Adige
- Gracious Gimondi and merciless Merckx
- Salita famosa: Blockhaus, Abruzzo
- The sheriff and the rifle shot
- Salita famosa: Tre Crime de Lavaredo, Veneto
- Enter the Americans
- The Sappada affair
- 1988: fear and loathing in Lombardy
- Marco Pantani
- Salita famosa: Colle delle Finestre, Piemonte
- A decade of difficulty
- Salita famosa: Colle dell'Agnello, Piemonte
- Then and now
- Epilogue
- List of winners.