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2 unusual facts about Giro d’Italia


Conrad Earnest

With respect to the high performance athlete, Earnest has published several notable papers with colleagues from Spain examining the physiologic characteristics of professional cyclists competing in the three-week Grand Tours of cycling: The Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España.

Michael Jayston

In the last 2 years, he has read a new abridged recording of Geoffrey Household's sequel Rogue Justice, (also on BBC Radio 7) and in 2010 he also lent his voice to a series of vocal interludes on an album celebrating the Giro d'Italia, released in May by British cycling clothing company Rapha.


1986 Giro d'Italia

Out of the seven mountain stages in the race five of them had summit finishes: stage 14 to Sauze d'Oulx, stage 16 to Foppolo, and stage 19 to Peio.

1987 Giro d'Italia

The primarily flat eighteenth stage stretched from Riva del Garda to Trescore Balneario, as the riders prepared to race through the Alps in the next few stages.

1990 Giro d'Italia

The route also contained stage 19 individual time trial, which had a summit finish to Sacro Monte di Varese.

1995 Italian Grand Prix

The 1995 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXVI Pioneer Gran Premio d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 10, 1995 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

1999 Giro d'Italia

Of the mountain stages, five ended with summit finishes: stage 5 to Massiccio del Sirino, stage 8 to Gran Sasso d'Italia, stage 15 to Santuario di Oropa, stage 19 to Alpe di Pampeago, and stage 20 to Madonna di Campiglio.

2005 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

The 2005 Rome Masters (also known as the Internazionali BNL d'Italia for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts.

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

Others top seeds competing were Miami Masters champion Nikolay Davydenko, Valencia Open winner David Ferrer, Andy Roddick, David Nalbandian, and James Blake.

2009 French Open – Women's Singles

The match was also the conclusion of a series of matches between them during the preceding clay court season, with Kuznetsova beating Safina to win the title in Stuttgart, and Safina avenging the loss by beating Kuznetsova in Rome.

2009 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, with the men playing from April 25 through May 4, 2009, and the women from May 3 through May 9, 2009.

2011 Tour of Belgium

The stage started with one minute of silence in remembrance of Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt, a former stage winner during the Tour of Belgium who died two weeks earlier as a result of a crash during the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

2012 Gran Piemonte

Among them, the 2008 World Champion Alessandro Ballan, the 2012 Giro d'Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal, the 2006 Milano-Sanremo winner Filippo Pozzato, and the 2008 Olympic Champion Samuel Sánchez.

2013 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

It was the 70th edition of the Italian Open and was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2013 ATP World Tour and a Premier 5 event on the 2013 WTA Tour.

Achille Vertunni

Later in life, he was named cavaliere della Corona d'Italia, and honorary professor of the Instituto di Belle Arti of Naples and of the Brera Academy of Milan.

Alice Taticchi

Alice Taticchi (born June 25, 1990 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy) is an Italian fashion model, beauty pageant contestant, and the winner of the fourth cycle of Italia's Next Top Model.

Andrés Oliva

He won the Mountains Classification at the 1975 Giro d'Italia and the 1976 Giro d'Italia.

Antonio Curò

He was a lepidopterist and published Saggio di un Catalogo dei Lepidotteri d’Italia between 1875 and 1889.

Attilio Deffenu

He became correspondent for the Giornale d'Italia, engaging actively in political life: joining the revolutionary unionism and, in 1913, fighting against the protectionism customs which favoured factories in Northern Italy and penalized the economy of Southern Italy and the islands.

Auto Italia South East

Located on York Way in Kings CrossNorth London, Auto Italia is both an artist-run project space and a site for exhibitions, events and collaboration.

Balilla

His memory is also reported on the present (but composed in 1848) Italian National anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani", popularly known as "Fratelli d'Italia" (Brothers of Italy): "I bimbi d'Italia / si chiaman Balilla / il suon d'ogni squilla / i vespri sonò".

Bancopoli

Close personal ties between BPL Managing Director Gianpiero Fiorani and Banca d'Italia Governor Antonio Fazio ensured prompt authorization of BPL's requests, while those of ABN Amro were stalled.

Bar Italia

In July 2011, British artist Ed Gray unveiled a painting of Bar Italia featuring patrons Rupert Everett and John Hurt.

Bartolomeo Bon

Bartolomeo Bon (also spelled Buon; died after 1464) was an Italian sculptor and architect from Campione d'Italia.

Bracci-Cambini

Therefore several academic books and articles have been written about the family, including In famiglia: Storie di interessi e affetti nell’Italia moderna by Roberto Bizzocchi and Il Casino dei Nobili: Famiglie illustri, viaggiatori, mondanità a Pisa tra Sette e Ottecent by Alessandro Panajia with Giovanni Benvenuti.

Danilo Di Luca

On 22 July 2009, it was announced that Di Luca had tested positive for CERA on 20 and 28 May 2009, during the Giro d'Italia.

Ennio Girolami

Born in Rome, son of director Marino Girolami and brother of director Enzo G. Castellari, Girolami made his film debut at 18 with a role of weight in Fratelli d'Italia by Fausto Saraceni, then appeared in a large number of films, sometimes as main actor, working among others with Alberto Lattuada, Federico Fellini, Mauro Bolognini and Giuseppe De Santis.

Fabian Wegmann

::Mountains classification (2004)

Gaetano Koch

Koch was born in Rome, where he made his name with several major works - Palazzo Koch, seat of the Banca d'Italia, and the two porticoed palazzi which form Piazza della Repubblica, and the central Piazza Vittorio.

Gian Giorgio Trissino

In his own composition, l'Italia liberata dai Goti (1547–1548), dealing with the campaigns of Belisarius in Italy, he sought to show that it was possible to write in the vernacular an epic in accordance with the classic precepts.

Giuseppe De Cristoforis

1832 with G Jan and Georges Cuvier, baron Il regno animale distribuito secondo la sua organizzazione opera del Baron Cuvier ; compendiata e recata in lingua italiana per servir di base alla Storia naturale degli animali e d'introduzione al prodromo della Fauna dell'Italia superiore, compreso nei cataloghi sistematici e descrittivi della raccolte zoologiche. Parte IIa., I molluschi Parma : Stamperia Carmignani, 1832.

Giuseppe Prina

Ugo Foscolo, Alcune parole intorno alla fine del Regno d'Italia.

Judeo-Italian languages

Piuttosto, una notevole differenza fra il giudeo-tedesco e il giudeo-italiano, che ha valore anche per il riguardo scientifico, è che, mentre quello è tanto diverso dalla lingua tedesca da costituire un dialetto a sé stante, questo invece non è essenzialmente una cosa diversa dalla lingua d’Italia, o dai singoli dialetti delle varie provincie d’Italia … ; 256: … era naturale che il gergo giudeo-italiano in breve volger di tempo sparisse… (Umberto Cassuto “Parlata ebraica.”

Manlio Morgagni

He supported Italian intervention in World War I. From 15 November 1914 to 1919, he was administrative director of Il Popolo d'Italia, a newspaper he co-founded with Benito Mussolini.

Maria Rygier

A World War I interventionist in 1914, she became an editor at the newspaper founded by Benito Mussolini, Il Popolo d'Italia.

Mikael Colville-Andersen

As producer for the The Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) bicentenary website for Hans Christian Andersen, he and his team won the Prix Italia award at the Radiotelevisione Italiana 57th Prix Italia for Best Website.

Natasha Stefanenko

She has also hosted many programmes, including the 2001 edition of Festivalbar, which is an annual series of televised summer concerts performed by both Italian and international pop groups in town squares throughout Italy; and Italia's Next Top Model in 2009.

Piazza Unità d'Italia

The square itself has occasionally been used as a concert venue, with Green Day using the square as a venue for a show on their 99 Revolutions Tour in 2013.

PMT Italia

In 2010, PMT Italia has founded PMT Winding Oy in Tehtaankatu, Valkeakoski, Finland.

Points classification in the Giro d'Italia

The Azzurri d'Italia classification (English: Azure or Sky Blue Italy) is an award in the Giro d'Italia in which points are awarded for the top three stage finishers (4, 2 and 1 point).

Quintus Anicius Faustus

Born either in Uzappa in the province of Numidia, or in Praeneste in Italia, it has been speculated that Anicius Faustus was possibly the son of a Sextus Anicius Saturninus and Seia Maxima.

Robert Förster

His career highlights have been wins in the final (Museo del Ghisallo-Milan) stage 21 of the Giro d'Italia 2006, and stage 15 (Motilla del Palancar – Ford factory, Almussafes) of the 2006 Vuelta.

Salvatore Rossi

On May 7, 2013, upon recommendation of Governor Ignazio Visco, the Bank of Italy’s Board of Directors nominated Salvatore Rossi Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Italy, succeeding Fabrizio Saccomanni.

Silvio Appiani

In 1914, Calcio Padova wins the Campionato Veneto-Emiliano di Promozione and go to the Prima Categoria dell'Italia Settentrionale culminating in fourth place behind Vicenza, Hellas Verona and Venezia.

Sylvain Georges

In May 2013 Georges withdrew from the Giro D'Italia after testing positive for Heptaminol.

Televisione Cristiana in Italia

Televisione Cristiana in Italia (TCI), also known as TBNE (Trinity Broadcasting Network Europe), is a free-to-air Italian religious TV channel headquartered in Marnate, Italy.

Tiziana Scandaletti

Numerous recordings for CD labels include: Ariston-Ricordi, Curci (Du Dunkelheit by Giacomo Manzoni, dedicated to her), Edipan, Nuova Era (two monographic CDs on Giorgio Federico Ghedini and other two on Alfredo Casella and Franco Alfano), Stradivarius (three CDs La voce contemporanea in Italia - Voll. 1, 2, 3).

Venetian regional election, 1995

After the election, Giancarlo Galan formed his first government, while Amalia Sartori (Forza Italia) was elected President of the Regional Council.

Virgin Radio Italia

Virgin Radio Italia is a music-based Italian radio station, which started nationwide broadcasting on 12 July 2007 at 12:00 AM (with the song What a Wonderful World by Joey Ramone).

Wei Yanan

Instead, she made her European debut in October at the Maratona d'Italia in Carpi and was the runner-up behind Rosaria Console.


see also

Antonio Suárez

Suárez also won a stage and finished on the podium in third place at the 1961 Giro d’Italia behind Arnaldo Pambianco of Italy and Jacques Anquetil of France.

Berzin

Evgeni Berzin (born 1970), Russian cyclist who won the Giro d'Italia and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1994

Mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia

The classification was first calculated in 1933; from 1974 to 2011, the leader of the mountains classification in the Giro d'Italia wore the maglia verde (from Italian: "green jersey"): in 2012, as part of a sponsorship deal, the jersey colour was changed to blue (maglia azzurra).