HeyYou Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 R.I.P. Felice, watching you gave us much pleasure. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/felice-gimondi-dies-aged-76/
Wayne pudding Mol Posted August 17, 2019 Posted August 17, 2019 Look how cyclists builds have changed through the years. Really cool photo
HeyYou Posted August 23, 2019 Author Posted August 23, 2019 A really good obituary in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/obituaries/felice-gimondi-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries Felice Gimondi, Cyclist With a Career Triple Crown, Dies at 76ImageFelice Gimondi, the great Italian cyclist who conquered the sport’s three major races, climbed the Brocon Pass of the Giro d’Italia in 1967.CreditCreditAllsport Hulton/Archive, via Getty ImagesBy Ian AustenAug. 22, 2019 Felice Gimondi, who was one of a handful of competitors to win all three of cycling’s major multiweek races, but who remained a frustrated rival to the sport’s most successful star, Eddy Merckx, died on Aug. 16 while vacationing in Sicily. He was 76.His death was announced by Italy’s cycling federation, which said he had a heart attack while swimming near Taormina.Gimondi was one of only seven riders to capture the Tour de France, the Vuelta a España and the Giro d’Italia, which he won three times. His 135 career wins also included the world road racing championship in 1973, one of the rare occasions he defeated the Belgian Merckx.“Without Merckx, Gimondi probably would have been the greatest cyclist of his time,” Jean Durry, a French cycling historian, wrote in an expanded 1981 edition of his book “The True Story of the Giants of the Road” (1973). read more in the NYThttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/obituaries/felice-gimondi-dead.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=Obituaries
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