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Baker who sang, “ - Coppi’s version
ran, “ Coppi then finished a modest fourth in the
event, some 4 minutes behind winner Anquetil, Ercole Baldini and a
little-known Swiss rider Alcide Vaucher from Geneva. In reality this particular
late-season gathering marked the end of a great competitive era in cycling,
because eight weeks later the Fausto Coppi was dead.
1956 - Time Gentlemen Please!!
(Credit is given here to Lugano sportswriter/broadcaster Alcide Bernasconi,
editor of the race history “Once Upon a Time There Was “1998
(Swiss-Italian). Reference was also made to the 1993 “V.C.Lugano 100-Year
Book” by Armando Libotte. All study material provided by Giancarlo Ghillioni,
Lugano CH.)
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