Tag Archives: Guilio Ciccone

2021 Giro Stage 16: Creating a Passo Giau Myth in Real Time (Written)

“Pinch yourself for a second, in what other sport in the post-game interview is the athlete asked to explain what happened to a clueless audience? Now, now, continue running with this idea. No TV cameras. Only race official reports, what can be seen from the cars, and what can be gleaned from rider interviews at the finish. Yes, yes, inevitably there were gaps in the stories. Did the journalists admit or simply omit the holes in the story as they came up? Of course not! They took many grand and imaginative liberties.”

2021 Giro Stage 4: “A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this” (Written)

“Pious Aeneas, what does he say to raise his comrades’ spirits? Those enduring and endearing words: Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. Yes, surely you all remember it now! But to use my beloved Robert Fagles’ rendering: “A joy it will be one day, perhaps, to remember even this.” Ah! Ain’t that the truth—Virgil you master.”

2021 Giro Stage 3: Trouble for the Band of Brothers (Written)

“It is the Monday grind, this is when the “real life” 9-to-5 attempts to drag us away from the drama in Italy. O! But leave it to the Giro to make such a prospect so absolutely laughable. Ah! Yes, yes, the Giro has always had a knack for throwing-up the most unbridled of unbridled transition stages—no sleepy and quiet Mondays here at the Giro d’Italia! It was one of those stages all hoped would be exciting…and then their greatest hopes and expectations were unanimously exceeded.”