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If you've got just under $100,000 US, you can own an amazing piece of cycling history with a bike built for and raced by Italian legend Gino Bartali, three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia, twice ...
The incredible war-time story of multi-champion Gino Bartali didn’t come to light until a long time after the second World War was over. Chuck Peña reviews the story behind the hero of the road and ...
However, Bartali remains the only rider to win two Tours de France 10 years apart - either side of the war. In 1948, he won his second of La Grande Boucle by 26 minutes and 16 seconds.
Gino Bartali’s Legnano racing bike was put up for auction in 2021 in Turin (Credit: Getty Images) Bartali's story will get a moment in the international spotlight when the grand prix of cycling ...
Tributes have been paid to cycling great Gino Bartali, with evidence now showing that he helped save the lives of up to 800 Jews during World War II. The Yad Vashem Memorial in Israel is looking ...
Bartali risked his own life during the Holocaust to rescue as many as 800 Italian Jews from the Nazis. “He smuggled documents in the frame of his bike, thinking that if he would be stopped by the ...
Gino Bartali won Italy's prestigious Giro d'Italia three times between 1936 and 1946, and the Tour de France twice. But he also had a secret.
Gino Bartali New Press Photo/Splash News/Corbis Gino Bartali won the Tour de France twice, and the Giro d’Italia—which starts today in Belfast—three times. But the cyclist spent most of his ...
Gino Bartali competing in the Tour de France in 1938 He won his first Giro d'Italia in 1936, retaining the title in 1937. Then - to Italy's delight - he won the 1938 Tour de France.
Gino Bartali was one of cycling's greatest champions, but it is what he did when the sport stopped which endures.