The Spokesmen 227
The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast · Carlton Reid
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Show Notes
Spokesmen Cycling Podcast
Tuesday 8th October 2019
SPONSOR: Jenson USA
HOST: Carlton Reid
GUESTS:
- Holocaust survivor Paul Alexander
- Canadian journalist Aili McConnon, co-author of Bartali biography, "The Road to Valor"
- Gino Bartali's granddaughter Giulia Bartali.
- Yuval Markovich, Bartali Youth Leadership School
- Dr. Ilana Tischler, director-general, Ben Shemen Youth Village, Israel
- Former pro cyclist Ran Margaliot, co-founder of Israel Cycling Academy and Bartali Youth Leadership School
TOPICS:
A 77-year-old secret, a new, cycling-based boarding school that commemorates it, and the kick-off for a 180 kilometre bike ride that retraces its roots.
This episode is about Gino Bartali's 1948 Tour de France victory, his secret wartime rides to smuggle fake IDs for Italian Jews, a new Israeli cycling-based boarding school launched in his honour, and the Bartali 180 commemorative cycle ride from Florence to Assisi, retracing Bartali's mid-1940s training-cum-smuggling route.