When said the Italy is spinning It’s more than a race, it’s more for details like the one to be executed on first episode of the 107th edition of Corsa Rosa. The first great cycling tour of the season begins with a mid-mountain stage, with three climbs and in no way unlike one of the beginnings called transition. The last ascension of the sun is the Colle della Maddalena (2nd)6.1 km long and has an average slope of 7.4%, but before you climb Superga (3rd), 4.9 kilometers long and with an average slope of 9.1%, it returns to the route after two years and is doing so for a very special reason.
Today marks the 75th anniversary of ‘Superga Tragedy, the plane crash in which all members of the football club diedand Turin in 1949. Due to thick fog, the plane crashed in Basilica of Superga (650 meters high) and as a result of the accident, which occurred at 5:05 pm, not only all team members traveling on the plane, footballers and staff, but also traveling journalists and the crew has died.
A total of 31 people died in the accident, with two players and the club’s president being rescued who did not fly. At that time andl Turin This is the soccer team that dominated Italy. After the accident, with just four days left in the league and Torino leading the standings, the Italian football federation called all the clubs to see how they were doing in the competition. He had to play the rest of the championship with reserve team players and, in a detail that honored his rivals, they did the same and Torino won the A series preceded by Inter Milan and of Milan. It was his fifth shield followed and since then they have not won.
Beyond this unfortunate incident, the Basilica of Superga is one of the iconic points of Italian cycling, due to its association with the classic Milan-Turin. The last time the oldest classic in Italy was finished in this church built in the 18th century in Victor Amadeus II of Savoy It was in 2021, with the Slovenian victory Primoz Roglicwho would end up winning the Giro d’Italia.
Source: La Verdad
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