Bookshelf: The Giro d’Italia has, since its beginning, played host to great drama, and one of these is the story of Fausto Coppi, a heroic and tragic figure of bike racing’s Golden Age. On January 2 ...

Italy's Joe DiMaggio is a lean (5 ft. 11 in., 156 Ibs.), hawk-nosed bicycle racer named Fausto Coppi. In 1949 Coppi won bicycling's two biggest races, the Tour de France and the Giro ...

And this was just the beginning, as British journalist William Fotheringham recounts in his absorbing book, the first English-language biography of Il Campionissimo, “Fallen Angel: The Passion of ...

There's no doubt that the Tour de France is the greatest bike race, if not sporting event, on the planet. With its iconic ...

And it’s still cool now with its acres of beton brut, dark wood furniture and banquettes, clever references to the great post-war Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi (coat hooks made from bike ...

In the days of Fausto Coppi, cyclists would wear what we'd now think of as 'normal' sunglasses (Persol ones in the case of Coppi, if you're interested). Nowadays Oakley is still the most ...

Over the decades there have been so much evolution in bike racing, from nutrition to training to equipment to tactics. Once upon a time, a professional team would have been essentially built around a ...

Tadej Pogacar is aiming to cap an astonishing year by matching cycling great Fausto Coppi’s record of four straight victories at Il Lombardia, the last “Monument” race of the season.

Coppi might be to blame. He climbed so comfortably that the organisers may have thought that the climb was finally too easy. "If you were on Friday on the steep slopes leading to l'Alpe d'Huez and you ...