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Gino Bartali’s Heroic Rides to Save Lives

Here’s a brief glimpse into Gino Bartali’s secret rides in defiance of the Nazis during World War II.

It follows an Israeli pro cycling team on a very special ride. The riders ignored their specific intense training routine and took on a 200km journey through the heart of Tuscany – starting in Florence and finishing at world heritage city of Assisi – copying the exact same route Bartali use to ride by himself.

The course, that started in Bartali’s house in Florence and ended in Assisi, took the riders along the route that Bartali rode through, while delivering fake documents for Italian Jews.

It was later discovered that Bartali did a lot more than just deliver documents.  If this topic interests you I highly recommend the movie My Italian Secret. which goes into detail on Bartali’s secret life helping the Italian Resistance.

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Crash Culprit in Giro – What Was He Thinking?

The Giro is rolling, and after only 2 stages there’s drama.

Stage 1, the team time trial, gave some riders a kick in the butt and others a kick in the teeth.  Here’s how the top GC podium contenders fared:

Cycling Weekly: Winners and Losers of the Giro Stage 1

Drama in Stage 2 – Crash Caused By Spectator

Giro Crash Stage 2In the final kilometers of stage 2 yesterday, a spectator on a bicycle, rode into the road and caused a 30-rider pile up. I snapped some stills from the point in a video where all hell broke loose…

Giro 2015 - stage 2 - crash culprity

Giro d'Italia Stage 2 CrashAnd then he nonchalantly rode back up onto the sidewalk and cruised on surveying the carnage he’d left behind.

 

Here’s the full video of the incident, see if you can spot the “crash dummy.”