Pic of the Day 19 March, 2006
76 Years Ago Today - Un Touriste Bulgare
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"A young student from Bulgaria, Georg Tscherdaklieff, age 24, is
currently on his way to achieving an exploit worthy of any professional
cyclist. Starting on the first day of February, in Prague, he plans to
complete a lap of Europe, riding 200 kms per day. His itinerary
includes: Prague, Berlin, Stuttgart, Strasbourg, Nancy, Paris, Bordeaux,
Lisbon, Gibraltar, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Naples, Venice, Szedeldin,
Budapest, and Sofia. During his journey through Paris, he was invited
to help start the riders at the Paris 6-Day. While there he spoke of
how he suffered in the horribly cold weather in Berlin, with temps as
low as -25C (-13F). Tscherdaklieff expects to reach the capital of
Bulgaria (Sofia) before the end of May, completing a journey of
18,000kms (10,980 miles) in about 100 days."
>From "Le Miroir des Sports" No.474/810, 19 March 1929. I hope he made
it.
Also in this issue: sometimes an copy of "Le Miroir des Sports" or "Match l'Intan" is so full of great pictures, I wish I could post it in it's entirety. This issue of "LMdS" included the following items:
Foucaux wins the French Cyclocross Championship,
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Dervaës wins the Tour of Flanders,
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Moto racing in South Africa,
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Henry Segrave's Land Speed Record (231.36 MPH),
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Charles Lindbergh's first plane crash, with his wife as passenger, due
to a wheel falling off his Travel Air 6000B during their honeymoon in
Mexico,
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a cycling cartoon by R.E.D.,
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and Giorgetti/Debaets win the New York 6-Day at Madison Square,
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What an issue!
Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio