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Baauw defeated Smulders in the 1st stage of WC

The Rosa is italian Good race for Pippo, i saw some big mistakes in the turns, but it was enough

C'mon Pippo, let's to win this!

Stage 1: Torino-Torino (ITT) Torino has been a frequent host and feature of the Giro d’Italia, with three ‘big starts’ and countless stage starts or finishes. This is the story of the finish of the second to last stage of the 1949 edition at the long-neglected and soon-to-be restored velodrome in Corso Casale. The velodrome is located in the district called Madonna del Pilone, at the foot of Superga, the hill on top of which Victor Amadeus II had built the majestic basilica as a token of gratitude for defeating the besieging French army in 1706. It was 11 June 1949, just over a month after the air disaster that claimed the lives of Valentino Mazzola, Gabetto, Bacigalupo, Grezar, Ossola, Loik and others – the day when the name of the hill became synonymous with the accident that killed the entire Grande Torino football club. None of them survived. Among the 31 dead, alongside the squad, their coaches and their managers, were three journalists and four crew members. The stage finishing in the velodrome was an individual time trial. The day before, Fausto Coppi had sealed the greatest achievement of his career: a 192-km breakaway across five mountain passes, from Cuneo to Pinerolo. He had finished 11’52” ahead of the runner-up, Gino Bartali, taking the leader’s jersey and securing his overall Giro win. Bartali, second behind him on the GC, was over 23’ adrift. The 65-km ITT from Pinerolo to Turin would be a mere formality. Victory went to Toni Bevilacqua ahead of Corrieri and De Santi; Coppi only settled for sixth place, but it was enough to further increase his overall lead by a handful of seconds. Coppi was a football enthusiast and a supporter of the ‘Toro’. In the first post-war period, the squad was invincible, even more than Coppi himself. There are many pictures portraying him with the players of the team: Danilo Martelli, Valerio Bacigalupo, Mario Rigamonti… In one of these, he is seen holding up a racing bicycle as Valentino Mazzola is checking out the spokes and the tires. In another one, he is standing with Serse Coppi, the defensive midfielder Eusebio Castigliano, and Valentino’s young children, Sandrino and Ferruccio, behind the counter in the sporting goods store that Mazzola had opened in Turin. Above all, Coppi was particularly attached to the midfielder of the Grande Torino, Ezio Loik, to whom he dedicated his victory in Pinerolo.

No anyone in Italy propose a ius soli, the only propose is a mix from ius culturae and ius soli :p

I voted for Italy, but Netherlands have a very consistent and strong team.

Serbia and Czech Republic. I hope that Egypt will defeat Ethiopia, but it's really hard.

Qatar, Ireland and Ukraine

Kenya, Belgium and Colombia

Greece, Ledecky and India.

Another gold and 3rd medal of the day Thank Netherlands for the suicide

Complete disaster for Jacobs and Manenti... A complete disaster.

Campionati mondiali di staffetta, so relay world championship

World championnn! Yay, not a great time, but good job!

Tokyo we are coming

Olympic quota for Dominican Republic! And now the wrost format of the championship, hurdles relay :cheer;

5/5 in final (and at Olympics). Good result for the Italian team

Italian commentator: "And they starts, well the Slovakian starts very very slowly"

This is the frist time that i see the 2x2x400. And I hope that this will be the last one.

The last week he was elected as CONI delegate, he seems in good election. Honestly I thank that all was going in the right direction...

Italian law about citizenship is fucking stupid. If you have a great-great-grandaprent Italian, you're Italian. If you are born in Italy by not-italian parents, if you do the Italian schools and so on, you must wait 18 years old and start a burocratic procedure...

Mixed trap, because you know.. I'm Italian

It's a sad day for the Italian sport. Totally unexpected

Apparently Ponzio will become Italian.

None of this