Giro d’Italia 2021 – Re-cycle: When Gino Bartali beat Fausto Coppi in the 1946 post-war 'Giro of rebirth'

The Giro di Lombardia might have run up until 1942 – and Milan-San Remo until one year later – but for five years during the Second World War, the Giro d’Italia was not contested. Italy surrendered to the Allies in 1943, but the devastating Italian Campaign was fought until 2nd May 1945, four days after the execution of the Italian fascist dictator...