Castellania Born in 1919 in a small village in the province of Alessandria, Fausto Coppi was the fourth child of a family of humble peasants Italians like you see in the movies of Antonioni, these magnificent frescoes countryside with names as evocative as "Ti Amo In Grangeo" or "fork in the Una Culotta. Fausto is not very cinematic, are something to him from an early age, it's the bike: at 14 he left school and returned to learning as a delivery boy at a deli, a good excuse for exploring the region in every direction on his bike, dreaming of tomorrows rim. At 15, he met Biagio Cavanna, a blind masseur who takes him under his wing and makes him realize his potential by constantly fiddling the rib cage, he had overdeveloped. Fausto Coppi is not the kind of gear to be so little, he follows the advice of the master, won his first race at age 19, turned professional at 20 and won the Giro in stride for his first. We are in 1939, and the voracious war rears its nose on the starting line. Fausto Coppi could be reformed because of his privileged status, but it's not a pedal: he joined the Italian army, was taken prisoner by the English three months later and expect 1945 to return home .
The war is over, cycling resumed its rights : The colors of the Bianchi team, Fausto wins in 10 years has almost everything he can to win (the Giro d'Italia 5 times, two Tours de France and world champion in 1953) and invented style while the flexibility that is quickly dubbed the "Albatross. Adept in all kinds of innovations, he experimented with new ways of training, focuses on improving the equipment and dietetics, including inventing the famous passage plan without saddle. Ouch.
After 10 years of racing where he constantly outperforms all its competitors, Fausto Coppi is a tire tired. Marked by the disappearance his brother, who died in a fall at the finish of the Tour of Piedmont, Fausto is there anymore. He gradually abandoned the laces of the Tour de France to climb the cervix of his mistress Giulia Occhini, he has a son named Faustino. The scandal, Fausto think to stop the bike but accepts one last race in Burkina Faso charity. On his return at Christmas 1959, Fausto Coppi did not feel very well but think first of the flu. Doctors do not understand that he was too late chopper malaria, and the great Italian cyclist died on January 2 1960, doubled by a hose death on the finish line.
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