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Gino Bartali

Italy’s Tour de France winners

Renaissance riders: Italy’s Tour de France winners, from Coppi and Bartali to Pantani and Nibali

As the Tour gets underway in Italy for the first time in its 121-year history, we take a look at the riders from the Bel Paese who crossed the Alps and took home the yellow jersey

Sat, Jun 29, 2024 10:56
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Gino Bartali, Tour founder Henri Desgrange and Maurice Garin (picture courtesy Le Coq Sportif)

Gino Bartali to be posthumously awarded Israeli citizenship ahead of Giro d’Italia Big Start

Meanwhile, organisers insist there will be no boycott of Israeli stages despite heightened tensions

Mon, Apr 23, 2018 19:10
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Gino Bartali (L) with great rival Fausto Coppi (CC licensed by Tsuru1111-Flickr).jpg

Israeli cycling team to ride war hero Gino Bartali’s roads

Italian great was named to Righteous Among the Nations in 2013 for helping WW2 Jewish refugees

Fri, Mar 11, 2016 16:48
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Gino Bartali (L) with great rival Fausto Coppi (CC licensed by Tsuru1111:Flickr)

Gino Bartali awarded Israel’s Righteous Among The Nations for wartime activities

Tour de France winner hid Jewish family in his cellar, smuggled documents on long 'training' rides

Sat, Sep 28, 2013 07:00
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Fiorenzo Magni

Fiorenzo Magni, three time Giro winner and Italy’s Lion of Flanders, dies at age of 91

'Third man' to Coppi and Bartali, Magni's career was tainted by rumours of wartime involvement with fascists

Fri, Oct 19, 2012 10:02
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Florence Panorama (credit- Jean-Christophe Benoiste:Wikimedia Commons).jpg

Florence hoping to host 2014 Tour de France Grand Depart

Tuscan city looking to commemorate centenary of Gino Bartali's birth

Sun, Jan 02, 2011 12:26
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Florence (picture credit Marcus Obal:Wikimedia Commons).JPG

Gino Bartali hid Jewish family in Florence home to protect them from Holocaust

New details emerge of Italian cycling legend's clandestine wartime activities

Tue, Dec 28, 2010 14:46
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Entrance to the Garden of the Righteous (picture credit EdoM:Wikimedia Commons).jpg

Gino Bartali to be honoured for helping save Italian Jews from the Holocaust

Cycling great undertook marathon wartime training rides with documents and money hidden in bike

Fri, Nov 12, 2010 09:24
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Fausto Coppi (copyright Ji-Elle:Wikimedia Commons).jpg

50 years on: Italy remembers Fausto Coppi

Country marks 50th anniversary of death at 40 years of age of il Campionissimo

Sun, Jan 03, 2010 14:30
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