Re: [CR]Which Other Italian Riders "Knighted" (equiv)?

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme:2004)

From: "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Which Other Italian Riders "Knighted" (equiv)?
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:09:51 -0500

Gino Bartali - Cavaliere di Gran Croce Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana - 1992

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio

----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Schmidt
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Which Other Italian Riders "Knighted" (equiv)?

> Angel M Garcia wrote:
> >
> > On 4 Feb, Mario Cipollini was made a Cavagliere by the President of Italy. Has this honor been bestowed previously on an Italian rider(s)???
>
> >From the Campagnolo Timeline at http://www.velo-retro.com :
>
> "1979 - Tullio Campagnolo is appointed to the Cavaliere del Lavoro
> (Italy's highest honor to a businessman) by the President of the Italian republic."

>

> Chuck Schmidt

> SoPas, SoCal

>

> .