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Torrential rain, freezing temperatures and a COVID-19 outbreak have turned this year's Giro d'Italia into a survival of the fittest. But 99 years ago, things were so much worse, with just eight finishers of the most brutal race in history..
Torrential rain, freezing temperatures and a COVID-19 outbreak have turned this year's Giro d'Italia into a survival of the fittest. But 99 years ago, things were so much worse, with just eight finishers of the most brutal race in history..
Giro d’Italia 1909, a legend of dedication and fortitude is born One of the world’s most famous bicycle races started from Rondò Loreto, in Milan, at 2 o’clock in the morning with a sequence of gruelling and even daring stages and cyclists many of whom were amateurs Giro d’Italia 1909, a legend of dedication and fortitude is born It was 2:53 in the morning on 13 May 1909 when the first Giro d’Italia set off from what was then called Rondò Loreto in Milan. The 127 competitors had been handed a somewhat epic-sounding card, which began “The hour is at hand. The battle looms. The c...