Sports Poets Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-90v94kxd8 https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1995/06/02/sul-rolle-quel-giugno-62.html di MARIO FOSSATI la Repubblica, 2 giugno 1995 La slavina della tappa di Briancon di questo Giro d' Italia mi riporta alla Belluno-Moena del 45 Giro, anno 1962, battezzata "Cavalcata dei Monti Pallidi". Una cartina altimetrica davvero... gotica, fatta di punte: Passo Duran, Forcella Staulanza, Passo Cereda, Passo Rolle.  Quasi non bastasse, quel giorno, il 2 giugno, il cielo del Giro venne attraversato da una scorribanda di nuvoloni neri. Un turbinio di pioggia e di neve, in un'atmosfera, oserei dire, tanto era diaccia, "marmata".  Il Giro non era mai passato per la val Fiorentina, che pareva l'avesse accolto per respingerlo. Ma il vecchio Giro si vendicherà della valle, perché il suo ricordo, lassù, come accadde al Bondone, è rimasto eterno, una leggenda.  Dunque, strade impraticabili, al...

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/20/sports/IHT-putting-a-happy-face-on-cycling-teams-woes.html By SAMUEL ABT His bicycle team is off to a mournful start, his sponsor has threatened to withdraw, his star rider is sick, his shoes are nearly submerged in a pool of rain. What, me worry? Everything is on schedule, says Patrick Valcke , smiling a somewhat beady smile. Valcke is the directeur sportif of Le Groupement , a new and troubled French team . He is French too but not troubled. No. Valcke has been here before, quite often actually for a person in his mid-30s, and one thing he has learned is that he is a survivor. He has survived other sinking teams, tumult and insurrection , even a heart attack that later was diagnosed as possibly indigestion. So the smile never left his face as he stood in a cold drizzle before the Liège-Bastogne-Liège race and explained why there was nothing to explain. "We said this winter that Le Groupement didn't have a rider who...