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Not even forty years had Italy been Italy when
La Gazzetta dello Sport organized the first Giro, back in 1909. Like other races, they did it to sell newspapers. The public was quick to applaud the initiative, to devour the chronicles that were written, to idolize the skinny little guys who cycled across the new map. The coloring of a country drawn only a few decades before was finished. Marcos Pereda has masterfully portrayed the essence of Italy and his career. In this book we compile some of his most outstanding chronicles, many from the last decade. Stages and editions that we have all been able to follow on TV, but with details that the rest of us never perceived until we read his articles. But we do not only present texts about recent editions. We travel to the past with several of his chronicles, in which he tells us how that 1909 edition was conceived and others that have marked the race. There are also portraits of the great legends that forged the Giro. Some of them close, like Tarangu, Lejarreta or Galdós. Others mythical, such as Coppi, Bartali or Pantani.
About the author
Marcos Pereda (Torrelavega, 1981) es escritor y periodista con alma de globero. Sus artículos aparecen en sitios como
Jot Down,
El Confidencial,
Público,
Mountain Biker o
Volata, además de en varias revistas internacionales. Ha publicado diversos libros, entre los que destacan
Arriva Italia,
Bucle,
Globero,
Eso no estaba en mi libro de historia del ciclismo,
Periquismo. Crónica de una pasión,
Cuentos del Bar de la Medianoche o
Cantabria. Tierra de leyendas. Su obra ha sido traducida a los idiomas típicos (inglés, francés, italiano) y a otras lenguas bastante raras (neerlandés, polaco o letón). Tiene un vínculo con Italia bastante estrecho desde que fue atacado por una ardilla en el Passo della Mendola.
