The train starts to leave when I put the pen on the notebook. Writing always accompanies me, when I travel. I’m going to meet Gianni Volpi, the great Primo Volpi’s son, …
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TOUR DE FRANCE 1948: 70 YEARS FROM THE SPORTING CHALLENGE THAT SAVED ITALY
by Lisa BartaliJuly 1948, July 2018: exactly 70 years have passed since what we can consider the biggest sporting challenge in history. 30th June 1948, we are at the Tour de France and …
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GIRO 2018: TRIBUTE TO BARTALI, THE RIGHTEOUS WHO DECLINED EVERY MEDAL
by Lisa BartaliThe previous 4th May 2018, the Giro d’Italia started from Israel, paying tribute to Bartali. The press was unleashed, and in the heat of giving news in the spotlight, not all …
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MY GRANDFATHER GINO MESSENGER OF PEACE: THE BEGINNING OF UNDERGROUND MISSION
by Lisa BartaliToday is the Remembrance Day, a recurrence to remember the victims of the Holocaust. The journalists who knocked at our door in the past days are many, they came to find …
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Bruno Giannelli was born in 1925. A tall, sporting man. In brilliant shape. My grandfather Gino Bartali’s only living team mate, with whom he ran from 1950 to ’53 wearing the …
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L’ EROICA GAIOLE 2017: MY GRANDFATHER GINO, SOURCE OF INSPIRATION OF GENUINE PASSIONS
by Lisa BartaliThursday, Friday and Saturday of waiting with a lot of events dedicated to the bicycle. And on the 1st October l’ Eroica Gaiole 2017 was run. The vintage ride at the …
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The Gino Bartali Cycling Museum is an ideal place where to rediscover the history of the bicycle with the sporting and humanitarian enterprises accomplished by my grandfather Gino Bartali. The museal …
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IN MEMORY OF GIULIO BARTALI, GINO’S BROTHER – A SHATTERED DREAM IN HIS TWENTIES
by Lisa BartaliIn memory of Giulio Bartali, known by me only through a black and white picture, I am writing this article with the purpose to pay him my respects, in my way. …
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In the day of your birthday, my remembrance for you: Grandfather Gino
by Lisa BartaliIt is July. It is time of the Tour de France. I am watching the cyclists who are challenging one another on the French roads. A glance is sufficient and I …
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ISRAEL CYCLING ACADEMY TEAM RETRACE THE ROUTE FIRENZE-ASSISI IN HONOR OF GINO BARTALI
by Lisa BartaliGino Bartali is by now renowned throughout the whole world. He is remembered in many ways, some of them inconsistent. An honest, direct and fair way of remembering him is to think …