S10 Ep58: Kilometre 0 – In fair Verona

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The 2022 edition of the Giro d'Italia finishes in Verona – just as the 1984 edition did, and it is that race which has long fascinated Lionel Birnie. It took place towards the end of the second great era of rivalry in Italian cycling. Francesco Moser was heading towards the end of his career and had yet to win the Giro. Time was running out but all of Italy was willing him to do it, including the race director Vincenzo Torriani.

This episode tells the story of the 1984 Giro and features the journalist Herbie Sykes, author of Giro 100, but it also explains the city of Verona and its place in Italy through the eyes of another writer, Tim Parks, who in the 1990s spent a season discovering Italy while watching Hellas Verona home and away.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Kilometer Zero by the Cycling Podcast, powered by Super Sapiens,
0:09.2	energy management for committed athletes and coaches.
0:12.0	In Fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge, break to new mutiny, where
0:35.0	civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
1:05.0	I think Pasal Paladeh.
1:06.9	So there was stuff that went on that wasn't Moseye had a different fuel.
1:12.9	We know this. Moseye had a far better bike.
1:16.8	He had a tantra bike with lenticular wheels.
1:19.4	So lots of things conspired against Afinion and by extension also Vizentini.
1:26.7	The city has a very strong fence of identity community with us.
1:32.5	I mean partly this is true of many of the small Italian cities.
1:37.4	They had their own dialect and you go there and you immediately sort of move into a
1:42.9	Verona's mindset.
1:44.9	If you're moving into a different world.
2:00.4	The story of the 1984 Geo-Ditalia has always really fascinated me because it taps into
2:06.6	many of the cliches and stereotypes that spring to mind when we think about Italian sport,
2:11.8	you know passion, partisanship and even mild skull duggery.
2:16.0	The 1984 Geo-Ditalia finished with a time trial that took the riders right into the centre
2:19.7	of Verona, finished in the Roman amphitheater and it was almost like a football crowd greeting
2:26.0	the riders on the final day.
2:28.5	And it was a culmination of a duo that had been hand-drawn by the formidable race director
2:33.2	Vincenzo Toliani to suit one particular rider.
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