Coppi: Inside the Legend of the Campionissimo Free
FREE COPPI: INSIDE THE LEGEND OF THE CAMPIONISSIMO PDF Herbie Sykes | 320 pages | 01 Mar 2013 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9781408181669 | English | London, United Kingdom Review: Coppi – Inside the Legend of the Campionissimo We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Strengths: Allows the extras to take centre stage Weaknesses: The photos are uncaptioned. Rather than a conventional telling of Coppi's story it's a sideways look at his life and times, Sykes' interviewees telling their own stories along with their memories of Coppi and their memories of other riders of that era, in particular Coppi's great rival Gino Bartali, along with some stories about Fiorenzo Magni and a few others. Complementing these oral histories are photos drawn from the archives of Olycom, Omega and Offside, some illustrating something that has been said, others simply illustrating aspects of Coppi's public life. Coppi - a private man who was public property. Although there is but one English- language biography of Coppi currently in print, most people are familiar with the basic facts of his life, from birth through death and stopping off at the Coppi: Inside the Legend of the Campionissimo highs and lows in between those two points. As such, Sykes doesn't need to retell stories already overly familiar to most of us and is, instead, able to concentrate on adding colour and shade, looking at old stories from a different angle or adding new stories.
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