Cycling is a sport that creates real legends because of the epic feats that can be achieved in this tough sport. Everything in cycling is legendary, from the long, grueling tours of more than 2,000 miles such as The Tour de France, The Giro d'Italia, and The Vuelta a España, to the difficult one-day classics such as Paris-Roubaix, Milan-San Remo, t...
READ MORESince the arrival of the new millennium, Italian swimming has exploded at the world level. Throughout the last century, Italy had never achieved great results in international competitions, or at least only on a few occasions. Since the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Italian swimmers have been winning relentlessly, and legendary champions such as Massi...
READ MOREAlmost one hundred years after the first edition was played Worcester CC, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Ryder Cup will arrive for the first time in Italy, where golf is not among the most popular sports but since the beginning of the new millennium has won thousands of new fans. Waiting for the two selections from the United States and Europe will...
READ MOREIn the history of sports, there are many families who have managed to win from generation to generation. And there are also brothers, sisters, cousins who have won in the same sport or in different sports. But in the 1980s there were three brothers who still have no equal in the world for what they won. This is the story of the Abbagnale brothers,...
READ MORENinety years ago there was an Italian boxer who in the United States, which had become his second homeland, won a match against an opponent from Boston, becoming thanks to that victory a legend of Italian sports. That knockout not only won him a world title, but made him a symbol of redemption for the Italians who had emigrated from the many rural...
READ MOREIf soccer is almost a religion for nearly all Italians, there is one city where from the time you are born your parents teach you to pray under a blue altar, almost always with the image of their messiah who in the 1980s arrived from Argentina, a land where millions of Italians live. The messiah's name was Diego Armando Maradona, venerated in every...
READ MOREOne hundred years ago, a sports legend was born in Rome. He still holds a number of records that are impossible to equal, together with his brother. It was March 4, 1923, and in a hospital in Italy's capital city, Piero D'Inzeo, the greatest horseman in Italian history, was born along with his younger brother Raimondo, who was born two years after...
READ MOREThe fastest man in the world for the past two years is the Italian, American-born, Marcell Jacobs. The lightning bolt born in El Paso, Texas, to an American father and an Italian mother, has won everything in recent years except the world outdoor title. Olympic champion in Tokyo in the 100 meters and in the 4x100 relay, world indoor champion, Europ...
READ MORESometimes in sports there are natural talents, those who become so after years of training, and the predestined. On July 14, 1990, a predestined was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Federica Brignone, who scored a unique victory in the history of Italian alpine skiing this February. Federica, was born practically with skis on her feet because her da...
READ MOREItalians' passion for bicycles has ancient roots. Everyone as a kid dreamed of having a bicycle at least until the 1990s, but even today millions of Italians have a bicycle and use it, some for work, some for sport and, of course, to dream of one day becoming a great champion. In the field of competitive cycling, few nations in the world have a lon...
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