{"id":2053,"date":"2017-05-04T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/?p=2053\/"},"modified":"2017-05-05T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T07:06:35","slug":"100th-giro-ditalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/100th-giro-ditalia\/","title":{"rendered":"100th  Giro d&#8217;Italia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends,<br \/>\nWelcome to my space.<br \/>\nI decided to tell you directly what I see and think about this wonderful trip that will be the 100th Giro d&#8217;Italia<br \/>\nLet me unfold a little bit to you, telling you what kind of profound feeling ties me up to this wonderful grand tour.<\/p>\n<p>I was six years old when I took part to my first bike race. My father Vivaldo took me to cycling with him, like a game, he challenged me in the sprint&#8230; neither of us imagined that one day I would have won 42 stages at the Giro d\u2019Italia, but I think my dad realized that in the little child sitting on the bike, there was a little warrior with very clear ideas.<br \/>\nFrom then on that little boy would have only one dream&#8230; Winning professional bike races with a sprint.<\/p>\n<p>I was dazzled by the image of those cyclists I saw coming out of the San Giuliano tunnel&#8230; It was a Giro d\u2019Italia but I do not remember the year and the stage I remember just it was an individual time trial.<\/p>\n<p>They looked like aliens.<br \/>\nFantastic athletes got materialized from the dark of the gallery&#8230; with beautiful bicycles and silk body (at that time lycra did not exist at all) and the glitter of the wheels and chromes illuminated by sun rays..<br \/>\nI made the decision!!<br \/>\nAt that time I decided that I wanted to become one of them&#8230; even stronger than them&#8230;<br \/>\nMy brother Caesar, 9 years older than me, was there. He was preparing his suitcase&#8230;<br \/>\nThis object unknown to me: the suitcase&#8230; who would have thought it would be so fundamental to my life?<br \/>\nDear friends&#8230; you don\u2019t imagine but for a cyclist a suitcase is a bit like home!<br \/>\nThat afternoon I watched him and I dreamed that one day I would have prepared that suitcase to take part to the Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends, Welcome to my space. I decided to tell you directly what I see and think about this wonderful trip that will be the 100th Giro d&#8217;Italia Let me unfold a little bit to you, telling you what kind of profound feeling ties me up to this wonderful grand tour. I was six years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2059,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariocipollini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}