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🎥 New on the channel! 🚴♂️ Dive into a historic moment as Italy hosts the Grand Départ of the Tour de France for the first time! Join us as we explore Florence, a city known for its art and culture and now teeming with 800,000 cycling enthusiasts. Discover the untold story of Gino Bartali, a cycling legend who not only conquered the Tour de France but secretly saved hundreds of lives during the Second World War. From the picturesque Piazza della Signoria to the Gino Bartali museum, we reveal how this event combines sport with deep history. Don’t miss our journey through Tuscany’s cycling heritage and the excitement leading up to the first stage in Rimini. 🚵♀️🇮🇹 Subscribe now and be part of this unforgettable start of the world’s most famous cycling race! 🌟Here is the 2024 Tour de France route
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A momentous departure: Italy is getting ready to host the Tour de France for the first time
First stage showcases the contributions made to the sport by great Italian cyclists like Marco Pantani and Gino Bartali.
Tourists are no strangers to Florence, the capital of Tuscany, but they normally have more interest in Michelangelo and murals than in Tadej Pogačar and yellow jerseys.
However, the Grand Départ of the Tour de France, which takes place in the city on Saturday, is anticipated to draw 800,000 cycling enthusiasts. In its 121-year existence, Italy has never hosted the start of the most prestigious cycling event in the world.
It is a fitting way, according to local authorities in Tuscany and Emilia Romagna, to highlight a region of Italy that gave birth to some of the nation’s most illustrious cyclists, including the maverick climber Marco Pantani, the chain-smoking Lion of Mugello Gastone Nencini, and Alfonsina Strada, the only woman to have competed in the men’s Giro d’Italia in 1924.
However, Gioia Bartali finds that the initial stage is especially poignant. Her grandfather, Florence-born Gino Bartali, was a two-time Tour de France champion who was found to have saved the lives of hundreds of Italian Jews during World War II after his death.
“They come from a bygone period of cycling history that is essentially nonexistent today. These riders genuinely authored historical accounts and elevated Italy’s standing globally.
Before the race officially begins on Saturday, the Tour peloton will start in Piazza della Signoria and parade through Florence’s downtown. The Tour will then pass in front of the Gino Bartali museum in Ponte an Ema, which is where the champion was born.
Dubbed Bartali Bartali, she explained that the yellow ice cream with a hint of purple pays homage to Florence’s colors as well as the winner of the Tour’s yellow jersey. “We are very proud to be hosting the start of the race, but we also wanted to dedicate an ice cream to our champion, who we have always felt very affectionate towards,” she said. Everything is very exciting.
“Not even my grandmother knew,” Gioia Bartali remarked on Wednesday while attending a memorial service for her grandfather at the Florence synagogue. In the cellar beside their house, he concealed a whole family. He kept it a secret because he needed to protect lives. He used to tell my grandmother that he was training when he rode his bike early in the morning. However, even in his older years, he would often remark, “Good [deeds] are done, but not spoken about.”
He did, however, discuss the difficulties involved in competing in such races. “The current level of assistance was nonexistent,” stated Bartali. “There were times when they didn’t even receive a drop of water, and the roads were of poor quality.”
The pious Catholic, who used to pray to keep from falling off his bike instead of winning, after falling into a river during the 1937 Tour de France. She stated, “As he knew that could be the end of his racing.”
The race this year officially starts on Saturday at noon from Viola Park, the glistening sports complex that Fiorentina FC inaugurated the previous year. The first stage of the race will take the peleton east to the seaside town of Rimini.
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جديد على القناة! 🚴♂️ انغمس في لحظة تاريخية حيث تستضيف إيطاليا انطلاقة Grand Départ من سباق فرنسا للدراجات للمرة الأولى! انضم إلينا ونحن نستكشف فلورنسا، المدينة المعروفة بفنها وثقافتها والتي تعج الآن بـ 800000 من عشاق ركوب الدراجات. اكتشف القصة غير المروية لجينو بارتالي، أسطورة ركوب الدراجات الذي لم ينتصر في سباق فرنسا للدراجات فحسب، بل أنقذ سرًا مئات الأرواح خلال الحرب العالمية الثانية. من ساحة بيازا ديلا سيجنوريا الخلابة إلى متحف جينو بارتالي، نكشف كيف يجمع هذا الحدث بين الرياضة والتاريخ العميق. لا تفوت رحلتنا عبر تراث الدراجات في توسكانا والإثارة التي تسبق المرحلة الأولى في ريميني. 🚵♀️🇮🇹 اشترك الآن وكن جزءًا من هذه البداية التي لا تُنسى لسباق الدراجات الأكثر شهرة في العالم! 🌟هذا هو مسار سباق فرنسا للدراجات لعام 2024
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I'm going to look forward to this tournament ❤
I wish I had watched this tournament in Italy 🙏