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Giro d’Italia 1952

Italian cycling legend Fausto Coppi riding between two big snow walls on Stelvio in 1952

Cycling in snow

Road cycling is not a winter sport. But sometimes -especially in the high mountains  – winter visits road cycling events in the form of snow. Images of cyclists struggling through the snow are usually fit into the narrativa of road cycling races being heroic and epic. Fausto Coppi, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and all the other great legends are capture at least one time during their careers in  heroic moment in snow. Let see some of those epic moments. Charly Gaul on Monte Bondone (Giro d’Italia 1956) Race director Vincenzo Torriani was asked to cancel the stage due to the rough weather conditions were forecasted. But he declined it, he may have thought, this could… Read More »Cycling in snow