This may be a rehash for some, but Viktor Kapitonov won the road race at the 1960 Rome Olympics
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and the story I've read elsewhere is that the soviet team rode cinelli B's. They visited Cinelli on the way home, and all were given Supercorsas -- the story being that Cinelli didn't want the world to know that it was possible to get a gold medal on the second-tier bike.
As I recall, in the mid-80's Kopp's Cycle in Princeton, NJ sold quite a few of them. Dick Swan told people who wanted a color other than red that the color didn't make the bike go any faster.
- Joel Niemi / Snohomish, Washington, USA