Top 10 🌟 Rouleur Library Gifts Fausto Coppi – Jacques Augendre 😍

Il Campionissimo – the champion. That’s the nickname of Fausto Coppi, the former butcher’s delivery boy who became cycling’s dominant hero in the post-war years.Through magnificent images and the evocative words of top cycling journalist Jacques Augendre, the defining moments from the Italian legend’s life and career are presented here. Sixty years since since Coppi’s tragic death, his warmth, aura and magnetic personality come alive in these pages.

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He was a hero adored and loved for his legendary exploits and dramatic misfortunes. Having experienced all of the emotional highs and lows that sport can bring, Coppi suffered a painful decline in his personal and sporting life from which he could not recover. He was a tragic hero – fate decreed that he would die at the age of 40, becoming a myth.