At 11:15 AM -0500 5/23/08, aldoross4 wrote:
>Bartali and the Italian teams withdrew from the Tour de France in
>1950. 1949 was the year that Coppi won the Tour (and the Giro -
>first time anyone won the Giro-Tour "Double" in the same year) with
>Bartali 2nd both times.
Thanks for the correction. I should fact-check my CR posts as carefully as Bicycle Quarterly articles! ;-)
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