What’s Wrong With Cycling in Italy? Perhaps that it’s not Cycling in Holland.
By Michael Frank, Adventure Journal on February 22nd, 2012
Italians may love cycling, but they love it for the wrong reasons in the opinion of “The Italian,” the protagonist of a very short essay. Maybe the Italian is fictional because he says things that sound like sacrilege: “Since Coppi and Bartali, we have only racing. They ruined everything.” Or maybe he’s real and impassioned, knowing that cycling can become more, wanting cycling not just for “cyclists” but for ordinary people. You know, like the Dutch. But not, apparently, like the Italians.
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