#Gino Bartali

[theminimalisto]

Fausto Coppi & Gino Bartali. 

[matto77]

Gino Bartali

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[che-de-di-co]

"Il bene si fa, ma non si dice. E certe medaglie si appendono all'anima, non alla giacca.

[Gino Bartali]

[1337wtfomgbbq]

Cycling history using memes

Giro de Italia 1952:

Raphael Géminiani: "I entered Fausto Coppi's Bianchi through the front door in 1952, a rare privilege. There was this great rivalry with Gino Bartali which was not feigned. If Coppi was very popular in France, the hero, the icon in Italy, was Bartali. That year, he was Italian champion, so, to annoy him, so that people wouldn't recognize him, Fausto forced our teammate Donato Piazza to wear his tricolor pursuit champion jersey and told him "Ride in the lead"! It was prohibited by the rules. But, seeing this green-white-red jersey, the public shouted “Bartali, Bartali!” Behind, Gino passed into anonymity. Every day, Fausto paid the fine."

Fyi: This got confusing for a hot second, because I also found an article mentioning this very same happenstance but with Antonio Bevilacqua being forced to wear his pursuit jersey. Cue me having to try and find out who of the two it was, despite being sure that Gem is not remembering it wrong. (I found Gem's quote on an article about how he helped Coppi win the 1952 Giro, and Bevilacqua was neither pursuit Champion that year, nor did he ride the Giro)

[camilletinguy]

An a BG from the teaser of "Bartali's bicyle"

[divulgatoriseriali]

Tour de france: la nascita di un mito

Il Tour de France, meglio definito anche come “Grande Boucle“: la più grande manifestazione sportiva del panorama ciclistico internazionale, si svolge ogni anno lungo le strade di Francia. Nasce nel 1903 da un’idea di Henri Desgrange, nel corso degli anni è diventato l’evento di spicco del calendario professionistico UCI Word Tour. Continue reading Tour de france: la nascita di un mito

[gerbie7]

Meer Bartali

Toen ik de recente Podcast van De Muur, Il Caso Bartali, zocht, kwam ik een andere podcast over hetzelfde onderwerp tegen. Klein probleempje: Het is in het Italiaans. Nu spreek ik die taal niet bepaald goed, maar luisteren is altijd nog iets simpeler dan zelf spreken. En toen ik zag dat het maar 7 afleveringen waren, allemaal tussen de 9 en 15 minuten, heb ik het toch maar geprobeerd. Eerlijk…

[statoprecario]

LA BICICLETTA DI BARTALI

in concorso al 54° Giffoni Film Festival – sezione Elements +10 e al cinema dal 1° agosto 2024distribuito da Lynx Multimedia Factory La storia di un’amicizia apparentemente impossibile tra due ragazzi appassionati di ciclismo, uno ebreo l’altro arabo, a Gerusalemme e dintorni, nel ricordo del grande campione ed eroe Gino Bartali, giusto tra le Nazioni… Uno straordinario film d’animazione sullo…

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ALESSANDRIA. L'ARCO SI TINGE DI GIALLO PER 111^ EDIZIONE DEL TOUR DE FRANCE.

TOUR DE FRANCE A 100 giorni dalla partenza, Alessandria si tinge di Giallo Quest’anno il Tour de France, giunto alla sua 111° edizione, percorrerà per la prima volta le strade italiane e omaggerà grandi campioni del passato, da Fausto Coppi a Gino Bartali e Marco Pantani, che hanno contribuito a rendere grande il ciclismo e hanno cementato la grande passione italiana per la bicicletta. Il 1°…

[iwan1979]

real life superhero! 42K Likes, 686 Comments - Bicycle Film Festival (@bicyclefilmfestival) on Instagram: "@jewishfactsdaily “Good is something you do, not something you talk about.” - Gino Bartali C..."

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THURSDAY HERO: Gino Bartali

Born in a small town near Florence in 1914, Gino grew up extremely poor. He escaped his difficult life by riding his bike from dusk until dawn around the hills of Tuscany. Building up exceptional strength and endurance, Gino started competing and winning races. Only a few years after his first race, he went professional. By the early 1930’s, Gino was a household name throughout Italy. Everywhere he went he was mobbed by fans. When he won the Tour de France in 1938, at age 24, Gino was hailed as the “King of Cycling.”

Gino wasn’t able to defend his title at the 1939 Tour because of worsening relations between Italy and France. He was drafted into the army and worked as a military bike messenger. In 1943, Germany invaded Italy and immediately began rounding up and deporting Italian Jews. A friend of Gino’s asked him to help save their Jewish brethren. Though married and with a young son, Gino did not hesitate. He immediately committed to doing whatever he could to save lives, whatever the risk.

Gino sheltered a local Jewish family in an apartment he bought with cycling money. He then embarked on a dangerous mission smuggling fake identity papers around Tuscany and Umbria, enabling Jews to assume false identities and escape deportation. Using his training routes between Florence and Assisi, Gino made 30-40 trips, saving at least 800 Italian Jews. He carried exit visas in his bicycle frame. Wherever he went, Gino was surrounded by fans, preventing German policemen from looking too closely at what he was doing. On the few occasions he was stopped and searched, Gino insisted that his specially-made bike was too delicate to be touched. A devout Catholic, Gino often traveled from Florence to Assisi and back in one day – a 200 km trip. In Assisi, Catholic clergy ran an underground railroad to hide Jews and provided them with Gino’s fake identity documents.

Gino was extremely modest and rarely spoke about his wartime heroism. He once told his son, “If you’re good at a sport, they attach the medals to your shirts and then they shine in a museum. That which is earned by doing good deeds is attached to the soul and shines elsewhere.” It wasn’t until after his death in 2000 that his family began speaking publicly about what Gino had done. In 2013, Gino was honored by Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations.”

For using his talent and fame to save hundreds of lives, we honor Gino Bartali as this week’s Thursday Hero at Accidental Talmudist.

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Fausto Coppi & Gino Bartali. Tour de France 1949

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[fabriche]

Gino Bartali

[camilletinguy]

A BG from the city, "Bartali's bicycle"