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Cottur Passes on
Sadly we learn of the death of Giordano Cottur in Italy at the age of
91 Not so well known, perhaps, because he tended to be eclipsed by his contemporaries, Bartali and Coppi, he was a valliant contender nevertheless having finished third twice times in the Giro d'Italia 3- I tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1949 2- II tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1949 3- Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1949 3- Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1948 3- XVI tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1948 1- I tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1948 5- V tappa Tour de France (FRA) 1948 4- XIX tappa Tour de France (FRA) 1947 3- XIV tappa Tour de France (FRA) 1947 3- Giro del Lazio (ITA) 1947 8- Tour de France (FRA) 1947 1- VI tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1947 2- V tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1947 5- XX tappa Tour de France (FRA) 1947 4- VIII tappa Tour de France (FRA) 1947 1- XIV tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1946 1- I tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1946 3- VIII tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1946 3- V tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1940 3- III tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1940 3- XIX tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1940 3- Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1940 3- XV tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1940 1- XIV tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1939 1- Trofeo Melinda (ITA) 1939 2- Giro del Lazio (ITA) 1939 3- IV tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1939 2- VI tappa Tour de France (FRA) 1938 1- XI tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1938 2- VIII tappa Giro d'Italia (ITA) 1938 -- Le Vent à Dos, Davey Crockett - Actively Opposing Thought Crime Libérez Ingrid Betancourt, Clara Rojas et les autres http://www.ingridbetancourt-idf.com/base/ Free Ernst Zundel http://www.zundelsite.org/gallery/donations/index.html Free David Irving http://www.petitiononline.com/DavidI/petition.html |
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Cottur Passes on
"Davey Crockett" wrote in message ... Sadly we learn of the death of Giordano Cottur in Italy at the age of 91 Not so well known, perhaps, because he tended to be eclipsed by his contemporaries, Bartali and Coppi, he was a valliant contender nevertheless having finished third twice times in the Giro d'Italia I'm very sad to hear that. I interviewed him four years ago. He was 87 but still working full-time. We hoped to film him in a hotel room at the fourth floor, but unfortunately the elevator was out of order. No trouble: he almost sprinted un the stairs. When I asked him if he was still riding he answered: yes, of course, but in the last few month we worked day and night to launch a new mountainbike and I had hardly time to ride more than two or three times a week. But now that were more or less ready, I'm hope I can go soon to the mountains again. I became also clear that he was still very well known in Trieste. When we asked the manager if we could film him in his hotel, he answered he would be honoured if Cottur would be his guest and his whole staff was ready to recieve him. Of course, we talked a lot about his career and he said: I have never been as good as Bartali or Coppi and yet I think I deserved to have won the Giro once. I quite agree. May he rest in peace. Benjo Maso |
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Hurrah for,the Giro's little guys
Today, at about two o'clock, Trieste was stirringly splendid,
with its delicate cobalt blue sea, a white-hot sun and waving flags as far as the eye can see: the red, white and green fluttering everywhere. It's been quite some years since we had seen such a sight. They shouted: "Hurrah for Coppi!" but it was something else they wanted to say, "Hurrah for Bartali!" and it was something else they were referring to, and not to Bartali. "Hurrah for the Giro's little guys, hurrah for Cottur, hurrah for Leoni!" they shouted, and it was always something else the people of Trieste referred to today, something that had more grandeur, that's felt more painfully, and that by now they had become accustomed to keeping well-hidden within themselves; today they could at last roar it openly. And the racers, with numbers on their backs, understood that they had all become equal, that they were only Italians and no longer champions, locomotives, human torpedoes; as one, they push forward amid all those powerful waves of love, forgetting they were enemies. - Dino Buzzati, Coppi versus Bartali at the 1949 Tour of Italy |
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