Florence, May 5, 2026 "On May 5, 2000, at the age of 85, Gino Bartali died, a man who was and will remain forever a legend of cycling and not only. He was born in Ponte a Ema in 1914. His family was not rich and Gino had to work since he was young. As a boy he worked as a mechanic apprentice in the shop of a cyclist. In 1931 he was Oscar Casamonti, a bicycle mechanic where Bartali worked as an apprentice, to convince his father that Gino had an …
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Florence, May 5, 2026 "On May 5, 2000, at the age of 85, Gino Bartali died, a man who was and will remain forever a legend of cycling and not only. He was born in Ponte a Ema in 1914. His family was not rich and Gino had to work since he was young. As a boy he worked as a mechanic apprentice in the shop of a cyclist. In 1931 he was Oscar Casamonti, a bicycle mechanic where Bartali worked as an apprentice, to convince his father that Gino had an …