Fausto Coppi Remembered: Today, the 2nd of January is the 60th anniversary of the death of Fausto Coppi. Leslie Reissner takes a look at the life and times of ‘Il Campionissimo’ the Champion of ...

Coppi’s remarkable life began, fittingly, in the shadows of the Alps that he would conquer so often from the saddle. He was born in the Italian Alpine region of Piedmont in September 1919 and by ...

Italian Fausto Coppi (C) is congratulated upon his arrival, 24 July 1949 at the Parc des princes in Paris, after winning the Tour de France. (Image credit: AFP Photo) ...

Large images of Fausto Coppi were on view for the 50th anniversary of his death (Image credit: Bettini Photo) (Image credit: Bettini Photo) ...

A new book by William Fotheringham, "Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi", provides the definitive English-language account of Coppi's life off and on the bike, including this excerpt for ...

But it was how he won them that inspired the imagination of the tifosi and many foreign supporters (Coppi was appreciated particularly in France where the people used to call him Fostт, from Fausto, ...