La federazione pensava che il tracciato fosse più adatto ai velocisti e che non ci fosse necessità di uno scalatore (per quanto veloce come Bartali). Archrivals Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi Art Print 23 x 30in. In only his second season as professional, he seemed stronger than his master. Make sure this fits by entering your model number. Tuttavia, la forte immagine cattolica-democristiana di Bartali necessitava una figura in antitesi che rappresentasse i movimenti socialisti, per cui Coppi venne eletto a simbolo dei partiti di quest'area, che si identificavano anche con la laicità del campione.[4]. The disgust of the entire country was shared by the Italian cycling federation, which banned both men for two months. Coppi remains diffuse, hard to define; while Bartali was “il Pio Gino”. Inspired by the Tour … The final challenge was the huge 137-kilometer individual time trial from Colmar to Nancy. La foto valse a Martini il Premio Fotocronista Sportivo dell'anno, attribuitogli postumo nel 1988 (Martini era scomparso nel 1968). The whole Italy splitted into two: the Bartaliani, and the Coppiani. In late 1959, Coppi had signed a meagre contract with San Pellegrino, a low-butget team managed by Bartali. The bottle picture does not show a moment that defines an event, for example when a race is lost and won. I write about cycling on this website, cycling-passion.com. Once away, his ability to ride at high speed alone would ensure he could not be caught. Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi The Giro d’Italia — more famously known as the Giro — is a long distance bicycle race in May or June. The first visit was at the instigation of Bartali, and the rumor went that he had not gone willingly. On the final climb of the day, the Petit St. Bernard, Coppi and Bartali broke away. Italians wanted nothing more than that Gino “the pious” Bartali, touched as he was by sporting divinity, be their official sporting emissary and Koblet subjected to a chorus of whistles during the second week of the race. Only 39 would reach the finish in San Remo . Marinelli was unhurt, his bike was undamaged, and so off he sped. The 2 French riders beat Coppi to the finish by a minute, after he was slowed by a flat tire. Oggi esce una lettera inedita sulla Vergine di Pompei. Gino e Fausto furono d'accordo e il giorno dopo ripeterono il passaggio di quella che è stata sempre considerata una borraccia, ma che in realtà è una bottiglia...E comunque, fu Bartali a passare la bottiglia a Coppi e non viceversa". D'altra parte, la profezia di Bartali si avverò all'arrivo sulle Alpi, quando Coppi fu preso da crampi da fatica: deciso ad abbandonare il Giro, venne convinto dal veterano Bartali a proseguire. He produced phrases like “Faith enables me to stand the pain”, or “My jersey was often dirty, but my thoughts remained pure”. But even as he rode, Coppi continued to repeat that he was going home. Binda initially tried compulsion: warning Coppi that if he stopped, he would be fined. How? Stomach troubles beset Coppi time to time, but the digestive system of the “old man” was a legend in itself. Bartali used his stamina and sheer physical power, particularly in bad weather, to wear the opposition down with repeated attacks. Ora inizia la discesa e non solo. Coppi signed with Bianchi team. He won the 1936 and 1937 Giri d’Italia, while skipping the 1938 edition of his home grand tour to win the Tour de France that year in a commanding fashion (he also won the mountains classification). The photo has deeper message: with showing the two great rivals joined together by the bottle, it is also showing Italy united. With the gloves well and truly off, their stricken captain detailed them to work for Koblet, and by extension to stop Bartali from profiting from his misfortune. He raced with half a dozen medallions of Ste-Thérèse and the Virgin Mary hanging from his neck and handlebar. He was fixated with the old man. Bartali era già un campione affermato, mentre Coppi era un semplice gregario, giovane ma assai promettente. It was widely held by those close to him that he voted Christian Democrat, but that didn’t stop the political labels. Instead, they watched each other, neither willing to put in an effort that might have given the other an advantage. His nearest competitor was Bartali who was 7 minutes slower. On December 2012, RCS Sport, the organizer of the Giro d’Italia, has put together 100 journalist to rate the greatest moments of the race’s 103-year history. There were posters: “Up with Coppi the communist, down with Bartali the Christian Democrat”. 3 days later he won the seventh stage 92-kilometer time trial beating the Yellow Jersey by 7½ minutes. Coppi’s conjunctivitis got the better of him and he abondoned. Serse, Casola and I took Bartali to the cinema, to see Gilda with Glenn Ford, we began smoking cigarettes, got back in the middle of the night.” After the film they went to eat, strolled round the station, and spun the evening out. Si è scritto tanto su quei due personaggi, Fausto Coppi e Gino Bartali, entrambi simboli della rinascita italiana, capaci di infiammare le folle per lunghi anni e di distrarle dalla miseria e dalla povertà: perennemente rivali, ma mai nemici; diversissimi fra loro, l’uno simbolo di una generazione laica e l’altro dell’Italia cattolica. Questa divisione era soprattutto strumentale, e poco aderente alla realtà dei fatti: Coppi e Bartali insieme erano stati ricevuti dal papa. With a 6-minute lead on the field, a spectator caused Marinelli and Coppi to crash. It was well known that Bartali liked to stay up late smoking and yarning. He was clearly the finest living rider, and, perhaps the best ever. Bartali era noto come un potente scalatore, mentre Coppi era un passista, per cui la "minaccia" non era del tutto infondata, e voleva suonare oltre che come una rivendicazione di superiorità come un onesto consiglio. Because of the time losses related to stage 5, Bartali was still ahead of Coppi in the General Classification and now donned the Yellow Jersey. It turned out that Coppi felt that Binda was playing favorites by not following Coppi who had been in the lead break. Without the tobacco, what might Bartali have done? He gave Coppi some of his own water, talked him into getting back on his bike and got him riding back into the race. He threatened to quit unless he had his own bike. Gino Bartali y Fausto Coppi. Asking him to give up his own chances was a way of making Coppi aware that his status in the team not being challenged. Alfredo Martini tells the story: “Coppi generally didn’t attack Bartali in the mountains, but while riding at the back of the peloton as the Maddalena climb began, he noticed that Bartali was having trouble with his brake cables near the levers and was distracted. In 1949 Giro d’Italia, By the end of stage nine Fausto Coppi was almost ten minutes behind leader Adolfo Leoni. His father had been an active socialist, he asked Gino to hide his party card when the fascists began to rise. Coppi was the hero of the industrial north, whereas Bartali was venerated by the agrarian south. Durante una tappa, Bartali fu attardato da una caduta, e i gregari si fermarono ad aiutarlo: Coppi invece, su ordine dei tattici della squadra, proseguì verso il traguardo per mantenere la buona posizione di classifica conquistata sino ad allora. Bartali was still recovering. He dedicated his wins to Ste-Thérèse of Lisieux and had her image cut into his handlebar. Bartali had been chasing Coppi, but only with the greatest difficulty, and looked to be running out of steam. Questa pagina è stata modificata per l'ultima volta il 3 feb 2021 alle 22:13. The night before the 1947 Milan-San Remo, Coppi’s Bianchi team were sharing the same hotel in Milan with Bartali’s Legnano team. On stage five, which ran over 293 km from Rouen to St Malo, Coppi broke away with the Yellow Jersey Jacques Marinelli, and 5 others. [6], L'anno successivo Bartali fu escluso dal campionato del mondo di Lugano a favore di Coppi: la decisione non fu tanto per merito, quanto per una scelta strategica totalmente errata. By the summit of the climb Cecchi was alone 9 minutes ahead of Gino Bartali, Lucien Teisseire and René Vietto. Gino e Fausto furono d'accordo e il giorno dopo ripeterono il passaggio di quella che è stata sempre considerata una borraccia, ma che in realtà è una bottiglia... E comunque, fu Bartali a passare la bottiglia a Coppi e non viceversa». La rivalità tra i due campioni fu sempre di alto livello e improntata al più corretto rispetto tra i due contendenti. Solo che nessuno l'aveva ripresa. Final 1949 Tour de France General Classification was: In 1950, the handsome, popular Swiss, Hugo Koblet, had become the first foreigner -and the first protestant- to win the Giro d’Italia. La biografia di Gino Bartali e l'amicizia con Fausto Coppi. Bartali inoltre era ancora in rotta con la Federazione per la mancata convocazione al Mondiale 1947, per cui a tutti i costi voleva dominare la gara. Proprio su una salita sulle Alpi Bartali era davanti di poche decine di metri a Coppi, che era alle prese con la classica "cotta" e forti dolori alle gambe. It is not even the only bottle picture: there is another from 1952, and an earlier from 1949. Coppi non rivelò mai la verità, alludendo però al fatto di essere stato lui il benefattore, e Bartali, anche dopo la morte del rivale, non diede mai una risposta univoca: affermò a volte di essere stato lui a dare la borraccia, ma spesso in modo ironico e lasciando intendere di non voler rivelare la verità. There Coppi had apparently stuffed himself with chicken-salad sandwiches before the start of the stage and when the road started to tilt skyward, both Vicini and the chicken sandwiches attacked. E’ molto famosa la sua rivalità con l’altro campione di quel periodo, Fausto Coppi; ma la loro rivalità era vera solo in gara perché lontano dalle corse c’era una profonda amicizia che li legò tantissimo ed è certo che Gino aiutò tanto Fausto nei momenti difficili della sua travagliata vita privata. Quando c'era l'occasione, Magni scattava per vincere la tappa: questo era possibile anche perché non sempre a Bartali e Coppi interessava la vittoria, a volte era preferibile limitarsi a un buon piazzamento, ma senza stancarsi troppo in vista della gara successiva. For the Catholic church, Bartali was a gift, an ideal Catholic athlete. On the seventeenth stage, from Briançon to Aosta, the 2 men did it again. In 1947 Giro, when a rider called him a “lying priest”, he didn’t turn the other cheek but delivered a straight left that floored the blasphemer. The Valkenburg debacle had far-reaching effects: Bartali would never be world champion, and the two great rival would never truly trust each other. Inevitably, he was a supporter of Christian Democrat party. The day before the single Pyreneen stage, 2 of Coppi’s teammates, Fiorenzo Magni and Serafino Biagioni got into a break with Raymond Impanis and Edouard Fachleitner. Con le prime elezioni della neonata Repubblica Italiana, Coppi e Bartali divennero i simboli dei due principali fronti politici in lizza, il Partito Comunista Italiano e la Democrazia Cristiana: Coppi era definito comunista, mentre Bartali era il democristiano. Bartali had a mechanical problem and stopped. With 35 kilometers to go Coppi had a five-minute gap on Bartali, making Coppi the virtual Pink Jersey. Along the dirt road that leads to Montalcino Castiglion del Bosco, Faustino Coppi and Andrea Bartali, the sons of Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali, evoked the gesture among their fathers while they were climbing the Col du Galibier in the Tour de France in 1952. Just five days after the Tour began, he was standing by a roadside in the depths of Normandy, holding a broken bike and asking plaintively if he could go home. Before the Tour, Binda had asked the organizers to allow him a second team car, because he had two leaders, who might be in different places on the road. Bartali was a further three minutes back, but his vital work as ad hoc coach and soigneur had been done. Especially, his religious belief that truly set him apart. So there was a car behind Coppi, but his bike at Binda’s car, who had stopped at the feeding zone in order to ensure Bartali got his lunch. Binda made sure that he retained control of the team. Pavesi told him that one would be wearing the Italian Champion’s tricolore (Bartali) and the other would be wearing the maglia rosa (Coppi). He confided to Buzzati that he no longer had the courage to descend at speed, though not long before (in the 1948 Tour, for example) Bartali had been a fearsome and skilled descender. Along with the grand tours, before the Giro d’Italia 1940 starts, Bartali also won Coppa Bernocchi (1935), National Road Race Championships (1935, 1937), Giro di Lombardia (1936, 1939), Giro del Lazio (1937), Giro del Piemonte (1937, 1939), Tre Valli Varesine (1938) Milan–San Remo (1939, 1940) and Giro di Toscana (1939, 1940). But he effectively lost the race on the stage to Napoli (Naples), nine days in, when he had to stop to adjust a defective brake. E così Fausto Coppi e Gino Bartali sono i finalisti del nostro sondaggio sul più grande campione nella storia del Giro, che ha già raccolto oltre 10 mila voti su Gazzetta.it. On the other hand, Coppi was approached by Palmiro Togliatti’s communists during the 1948 election campaign. His mother wanted to … Stage 16, from Cannes to Briançon with the Allos, Vars and Izoard was the first day in the Alps. Coppi was born in Castellania (now known as Castellania Coppi), near Alessandria, one of five children born to Domenico Coppi and Angiolina Boveri, who married on 29 July 1914. By the time they confronted the second mountain pass, his stomach could take it no more. Coppi won the stage with Bartali finishing with him at the same time. Binda was able to convince Coppi that he had been delayed and that he wasn’t playing favorites by not following him. Ciò nonostante, forte della migliore posizione di classifica, Coppi divenne la punta della squadra e Bartali quasi assunse il ruolo di gregario per il giovane campione. rate the greatest moments of the race’s 103-year history, Battle of the Giants starts: 1940 Giro d’Italia, Coppi’s dominant years (1949-1952) begins: 1949 Giro d’Italia, 1949 Tour de France, the first ever Giro-Tour double in history, 1952 Tour de France, the second Giro-Tour double in history, Blubrake presents the first ABS for e-cargo bikes, Selle Italia introduces Flite Boost Pro Team at Strade Bianche 2021, Team Qhubeka ASSOS partners with Busby, UK safety app leaders, Fausto Coppi (Italy): 149 hours 40 minutes 49 seconds, Jacques Marinelli (France-Ile de France) @25:13. The next three stages had no effect on the top classification standings. The pink jersey was saved, but the next day was the tappone (the race’s hardest and most demanding stage, always in the high mountains), only 110 km long, but included three massive climbs: the Falzarego, Pordoi and Sella passes. By the beginning of the 1940s, Gino Bartali was already a Italian cycling hero. Quality poster, good reproduction from old photograph. Sempre per l'aspetto tecnico, l'opinione pubblica si divise sulla scelta del miglior cambio a rapporti: il cambio Campagnolo, brevetto italiano di Tullio Campagnolo del 1940, o il moderno cambio Simplex, francese? That meant they were joint leaders of the Italian squad, and expected to combine forces to represent their country. The sightless (but by no means unseeing) man walked into the hotel room with his dog. Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi: respect and rivalry. Celebre nell'immortalare un'intera epoca sportiva - tanto da entrare nell'immaginario collettivo degli italiani - è la foto che ritrae Fausto Coppi e Gino Bartali mentre si passano una bottiglietta durante la salita del Galibier al Tour del 1952. During the rest of 1940 and 1941, the rivalry between Coppi and Bartali became more intense, even though the two cyclists were still racing in the colors of Legnano. But Coppi had established his supremacy in no uncertain terms. Coppi was worried about his form, so he instructed his domestiques to nobble his rival. Le risposte per i cruciverba che iniziano con le lettere F, FA. Insgesamt 22 Stockfotos & Bilder zum Thema Fausto Coppi Gino Bartali stehen zum Lizenzieren zur Verfügung. At the finish he didn’t even wait to get a shower: “I took the car and retraced my steps. First, in 1948, Gino Bartali won the Tour de France 10 years after his first victory. They were minutes ahead of the chasing Jean Robic and still further ahead of the rest of the field. Martini led in Cottur, Astrua and Giulio Bresci 19 minutes 14 seconds after Coppi finished. But it is the bottle picture that has inspired the debate, the articles, the television programs. Bartali e Coppi, la strana rivalità di Malaparte. Anche il ciclista Luigi Malabrocca, storico ciclista maglia nera del Giro e grande amico di Coppi, affermò in un'intervista di aver ricevuto dall'amico la confessione che la borraccia era in realtà di Bartali. Reproduction of the famous bottle photo of Coppi and Bartali: the photos are from 2010. At stage five, Coppi crashed and broke a rib. This being Bartali’s birthday and Coppi feeling completely confident now of his powers, Coppi allowed Bartali to take the stage win. Coppi said “whereever you go, I’ll go”, and he was as good as his word, even following Bartali into the changing rooms. After a day that had included the Aubisque, the Tourmalet, the Aspin and finally the Peyresourde Coppi now was sitting in ninth, 14 minutes, 46 seconds behind Magni who was still in Yellow. Learn how your comment data is processed. Then, in one of the most famous rides in cycling history, Fausto Coppi was first over five major Alpine passes in stage 17. Gino Bartali y Fausto Coppi, entre 1940 y 1943. Ultimately, however, so charismatic was he, and so consummate his performance, that he won them over. After Bartali’s win in the 1947 Milan-San Remo, the pair whipped Italy’s cycling fans into a state of delirium. Inspired by the Tour … Coppi was now sitting in second place, 1 minute, 22 seconds behind his Tuscan teammate. But with Bartali’s help Coppi had saved his lead, finishing only four seconds behind Mollo. After the descent Bartali flatted. Bartali was 24 minutes behind. He pressed on, gaining time with every pedal stroke. Negli anni successivi Bartali ebbe problemi per via del suo rifiuto di piegarsi agli ordini del regime fascista per diventare un'altra "bandiera" dello sport italiano strumentalizzata dalla politica, arrivando a svolgere attività in favore dei rifugiati e a trasportare documenti per le attività di rifugiati e oppositori e a venir perseguito per il suo antifascismo. Bini, who had been dropped long ago, mysteriously closed the gap up to Bartali at that perfect moment. Bartali smoked a lot, and while the gregari might enjoy a glass of wine at dinner, Bartali had a bottle. In 1955, Coppi showed his son’s photograph first to Gino Bartali, recently retired and following the Giro as a summariser for Italian television. In the beginning of 1940, the 20-year-old Fausto Coppi turned professional and signed with Legnano for 700 Italian Lire a month.eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'cycling_passion_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',105,'0','0'])); Supported by his high-powered Legnano team, Gino Bartali was the biggest favorite of 1940 Giro. Both Coppi and Bartali played their parts in the war, but this is another story.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'cycling_passion_com-large-mobile-banner-2','ezslot_9',114,'0','0'])); On 22 November 1945, Coppi married with a girl named Bruna. He kept the power to throw anyone off the race if they disobeyed his orders, and he established that he would be the one who told the gregari what to do. He told them “if the pair left the room without coming to an agreement, Italy would never forgive them and their images would be mud.” He proposed the following deal: they would each take their own gregari with them and would agree to help each other until the Tour reached the mountains, at which point they could ride their own races and it would become clear which has the stronger. Nel Giro del 1946 Coppi assestò uno schiaffo morale al suo vecchio maestro: tra Auronzo e Bassano del Grappa dominò la tappa dolomitica del Falzarego, dando oltre cinque minuti di ritardo all'"arrampicatore" Bartali, che nonostante la batosta (più metaforica che reale, vista la differenza contenuta al traguardo) mantenne la maglia rosa. The rivalry between Coppi and Bartali was “a great machine of financial interests”, according to Orio Vergani. Coppi was not even willing to stick with the peloton. Price: $15.99. At this point Coppi was still facing about 190 kilometers of racing over four more major Alpine passes. Coppi won again when he went away alone on the Falzarego pass in stage sixteen. Then he made Bartali wait; he knew that Coppi would be stimulated by the idea that Bartali might win if he went home. Pavesi stopped the impetuous youngster, telling him that certain proprieties had to be observed. Sports fans likes duels: Ali vs Frasier, Senna vs Prost, Schumacher vs Hakkinen, Federer vs Nadal… All sports feed off such soap operas, but where cycling is unique is that the great, lasting events in road cycling were founded specifically to provide copy for newspapers, by breeding this kind of intrigue. Once Coppi had flown, the older man had no choice but to remain with the other team leaders as they spent their energy chasing his teammate, if they caught Coppi, it would be his turn to attack; a classic racing tactique.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'cycling_passion_com-box-4','ezslot_4',107,'0','0'])); Orio Vergani wrote in Corriere della Sera: “…on the road lashed by the frozen, cutting rain. Coppi vinse la tappa, e Bartali si complimentò vivamente, alludendo però al fatto che molti corridori forti in pianura abbandonassero alle prime tappe di montagna. Edmondo Toccacelli, Emilio Croci-Torti, Ezio Cecchi, Enzo Bellini, Giorgio Scrivanti and Giulio Bresci drove the pace on the dirt and snow covered roads. Cecchi conquista l’Abetone e adesso conto: uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette e passa anche lui. Bartali had overlooked their rivalry and rigged a win for Coppi in a criterium so he could take home a bouquet or two. [5] La celebre fotografia, ricolorata, fu utilizzata per la copertina del primo numero del 1956 della rivista Sport illustrato. La sfida si estendeva al mondo tecnico, dove i costruttori tramite le avventure delle competizioni cercavano di emergere in una società che vedeva nella bicicletta un mezzo di trasporto e non solo di intrattenimento: le case lombarde Bianchi e Legnano divennero le due punte di diamante del mondo delle costruzioni ciclistiche. Bartali fue un excepcional escalador , vencedor del gran premio de la montaña del Giro de Italia en siete ocasiones y del Tour de Francia en dos. Fausto was the fourth child, born at 5:00 pm on 15 September 1919. Coppi once said “if I had drunk just part of the wine Gino has, I’d be dead”. Bartali in seguito definì Coppi acquaiolo, che nel gergo ciclistico era riferito ai portaborracce, cioè gregari che avevano la funzione di portare le borracce d'acqua ai corridori più forti della squadra. Il gesto tra Coppi e Bartali . Then Bartali fell. Bartali made it clear: “You can rest but don’t have too many illusions: give it a year and I’ll put things back how they should be”, he told Coppi.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'cycling_passion_com-mobile-leaderboard-1','ezslot_14',112,'0','0']));eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'cycling_passion_com-mobile-leaderboard-1','ezslot_15',112,'0','1'])); .mobile-leaderboard-1-multi-112{border:none !important;display:block !important;float:none;line-height:0px;margin-bottom:15px !important;margin-left:0px !important;margin-right:0px !important;margin-top:15px !important;min-height:250px;min-width:250px;text-align:center !important;}. Buzzati reached for a metaphor and found it in Homer’s epic final battle between Achilles (Coppi) and Hector (Bartali) in which the stronger Achilles, favored by Zeus, coldly slays Hector. Fausto kept saying “I’m going home.” Binda said: “My fine boy, how are you going to look to your fans? Anche grazie a questa tattica conquistò tre Giri d'Italia (1948, 1951 e 1955). On that day Coppi could have lost the Tour, but Bartali was there and helped him out. By the end of 1940s, it was impossible to mention one without the other. After a relentless chase great Italian champion Gino Bartali caught the solo Cecchi on the Capo Berta. Coppi rode well the next four stages, but his crisis took place when Giro reached the Dolomites on stage sixteen. It was pure theater, and it was just the beginning of the show. La rivalità tra i due campioni cominciò nel 1940, anno in cui entrambi correvano per la medesima squadra, la Legnano. Gli altri compagni di fuga inizieranno ad arrivare tra due minuti. Bartali came in 5 minutes later. Bartali rimase sempre fedele al Campagnolo, meno pratico ma più affidabile, mentre Coppi non disdegnò in diverse occasioni il Simplex, che permetteva di cambiare continuando la pedalata.[7]. Bianchi and Legnano needed the duo in order to sell bikes. And yet, maybe it was simply age. Fausto Coppi morì a soli 40 anni, il 2 gennaio 1960 dopo aver contratto una forma aggressiva di malaria in Africa, tra i primi ad accorrere dopo la notizia fu proprio Gino Bartali, il quale mancò il 5 maggio del 2000 e si dice che nella sua bara, oltre alla medaglia d’oro al valore civile (conquistata salvando decine di Ebrei durante la guerra) e al distintivo dell’Azione Cattolica venne messa una fotografia di Fausto Coppi, … Coppi was depicted as an atheist, to his utter disgust: he met Pius XII on at least two occasions, in 1947 and 1949. It was like talking to a wall. By the end of stage 11, Coppi took over the maglia rosa.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'cycling_passion_com-banner-1','ezslot_6',108,'0','0'])); Bartali wasn’t enjoying this Giro one bit and wanted to quit. Coppi went on to win the Tour de France the same year, making him the first-ever Giro/Tour double winner. Italian national team manager Alfredo Binda didn’t want another Valkenburg debacle, so he met with Bartali and Coppi that June and laid down the law. Pagina relativa all'argomento Wikipedia: Fausto Coppi e le sue risorse collegate su BiblioToscana. Il primo, sopratutto, è stato un eroe nazionale che in collaborazione con la Chiesa salvò 800 ebrei trasportando documenti in segreto. Coppi reflected for a moment and then accepted Binda’s story. This was fantasy, but the situation was desperate, Coppi didn’t respond. It was on the slopes of Abetone, in snow, cold rain, thunder and lightning, that the pattern for the rest of the race was set. Fausto Coppi e Gino Bartali nel 1940 All'arrivo della tappa Bartali fece i complimenti a Coppi e si mise al suo servizio, come aveva fatto Guerra con lo stesso Bartali nel 1936. Durante la tappa del Tour de France del 4 luglio 1952, tra Losanna e Alpe d'Huez, Fausto Coppi conduceva la gara in maglia gialla. More than seven minutes passed to Binda reached Coppi. It is lasted till Bartali quit and Coppi lost his strength. In these years, the Tour de France was run by national teams, instead of commercial teams like today. As Dino Buzzati wrote: “The tifosi have forgotten everything: who they are, the work waiting for them, the illnesses, luxuries, unpaid bills, headaches, love, everything except the fact that Coppi is in the lead and Bartali continues to lose ground.”. Coppi had been told by Legnano Team Manager Eberardo Pavesi to ride his own race and escaped alone. He told Coppi that he had named his dog “Fausto” and that he would never betray his dog and his dog would never betray him. Bartali would often take his squad to Mass before race starts. Coppi e Bartali avevano in comune un doloroso ricordo: entrambi avevano perso un fratello per il ciclismo. But they had to wait six years for the Giro to be run again. That ride put him more than 23 minutes ahead of GC second-place Gino Bartali. In terms of lifestyle, it was Coppi who lived like a monk, while Bartali smoked and drank with Rabelaisian gusto. The phrase of the Rai radio commentator Mario Ferretti during the 17th stage of the 1949 Giro became legendary: “There’s only one man in the lead: his jersey is celeste and white; his name is Fausto Coppi”. He had recruited at least one Legnano teammate to work for him instead of Bartali: Mario Ricci. He got the green liquid from the original bottle analyzed, and found it contained a “common pick-me-up, made in France”. Non eravamo un trio, ma tre persone e tre corridori molto diversi. Bartali, feeling he couldn’t wait anymore, took off. Cyclists continually pass bottles to and from each other as they ride up mountains. In attempting the Tour for the first time in his career, he had won the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France in the same year, and it was first in cycling history. La classe di Coppi ebbe modo di manifestarsi nella tappa Firenze-Modena, nella quale il piemontese scattò sull'Abetone sotto il diluvio e conquistò tappa e maglia rosa.