Re: [CR]Giordano Cottur has passed away

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From: "Paul Williams" <castell5@sympatico.ca>
To: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
References: <064501c642ca$2292a260$6501a8c0@HPLAPTOP>
Subject: Re: [CR]Giordano Cottur has passed away
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 11:16:11 -0500
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Hi Steven,

A quick search of Google images brings up this page:

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.milansanremo.co.uk/1948/1948-turchino-prime-large.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.milansanremo.co.uk/1948story.htm&h=300&w=400&sz=37&tbnid=pdh7YrKe692E-M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgiordano%2Bcottur%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

Cheers,

Paul.

Paul B. Williams, PhD (Queen's)
70 Viscount Ave.,
Ottawa, On, K1Z 7M9
ph: 613-761-3867
e-mail: castell5@sympatico.ca


----- Original Message -----
From: The Maaslands
To: CR
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:05 AM
Subject: [CR]Giordano Cottur has passed away



> The title says it all. Cottur was one of the riders who was developing
> alongside Coppi when WWII interrupted normal racing in Italy. After the
> war, he joined the then new Wilier Triestina team as one of its star
> riders. In fact, the fact that he was from Trieste was of prime
> importance to the political statement that the team leaders were trying
> to express. He won the very first post-war stage of the Giro, and later
> placed third in the Giro GC. He rode for Lygie, Viscontea (I have a
> Viscontea cambio corsa bike arriving shortly, so this makes me happy to
> see the name come up!) and Wilier-Triestina. He was born in 1914 in
> Trieste, which is also where he passed away. Maybe Aldo can do the
> impossible once more and dig up a photo of Cottur.
>
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ