Download The Story of the Giro d'Italia: A Year-by-Year History of the Tour of Italy, Volume Two: 1971-2011 AudioBook Free
The Giro d'Italia is one of the world's most important and popular bicycle races, yet there is almost no information in British about this wonderful Italian race's abundant recent. With The History of the Giro d'Italia, the wonderful history of Italy's national tour is at last available. Volume One took the storyplot of the Giro from its origin as a anxious promotional gamble by way of a nearly broke magazine to Eddy Merckx's convincing 1970 win. Volume Two describes the expansion of the Giro into a modern, vital international contest that is accompanied by cycling fans all around the globe. Along the way, the tales and races that contain excited the general public during the last forty years are informed, like the Francesco Moser/Giuseppe Saronni rivalry, the tragic story of Marco Pantani and the Alberto Contador affair that remaining the Spaniard stripped of his 2011 Giro championship.