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The Giro 100 (Paperback)
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The Giro 100 (Paperback)
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For better or for worse, the Giro d'Italia remains the sporting
metaphor for Italians. To celebrate its centenary, Herbie Sykes
produced a unique - and uniquely personal - evocation. In realising
it he undertook a Giro of his own. Travelling the length of the
peninsular, he met with 100 of its constituents, and simply
listened to their stories. They were the champions and gregari, the
superstars and nearly-men, their wives, families and tifosi. There
were kingmakers and journalists, sponsors and officials, those who
have loved it and a few who abhorred it. Collectively their
testimonies represent a journey to the heart of the race, and to
Italian cycling identity. This, however, is a cycling journey with
a difference. In a departure from recent cycling convention, they
were invited to open not only their hearts, but also their
scrapbooks, photo albums and old cupboard drawers. There's no
anodyne photographic agency fodder here, no cliched Dolomite vistas
and no hackneyed portraits of Coppi, Merckx or Pantani. Rather the
images conjure the spirit, pathos and beauty of the greatest race
on earth and, more poignantly still, of 100 lives conditioned by
it.
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