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Forty victories as a professional, countless placings, duels with Eddy Merckx and Marino Basso, guest appearances on “Quelli che il calcio”... Dino Zandegù, free hitter, eclectic and charismatic cyclist, is a born storyteller who lights up the world of cycling with his verve. Riders are usually known for their discipline, for their life as monks... Dino Zandegù, no. He is part of the elite group of the crazy, the unpredictable, the cheerful. He exaggerated and expressed himself, transgressed and sinned, and he did it by eating and drinking, singing and reciting, ranting, embroidering and improvising. It will be his name, Dino, the only diminutive of an augmentative existence. It will be his surname, Zandegù, which rhymes with virtue and tribe, Jesus and Beelzebub. It will be his rivalry – cycling has always sublimated itself in duels and dualisms – with Marino Basso. It will be his heaviness in pedaling uphill capable of transforming into the lightness of living downhill, flat and sprint. It will be his art of telling true stories – as he himself specifies – ninety percent. Because a lot belongs to history, but something also to myth and legend, to free interpretation and sincere inspiration.
21 x 14 cms, softback, 192 pages.
2023
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