In 1930 the Giro started from Sicily, but the typical color of those who came first in the general classification would only arrive the following year. Precisely during the first stage the winner of that edition was hit in the eye by a splinter of lava rock. He will run bandaged until the final party
The Giro d’Italia started for the first time in Sicily on 17 May 1930, with the Messina-Catania race which Michele Mara won in the sprint but without then wearing the pink jersey symbolizing the record: it would debut the following year. The first stage also recorded a very singular accident. Luigi Marchisio, a twenty-one-year-old from Asti from Castelnuovo Don Bosco, passing from the slopes of Etna, was accidentally hit in the eyeball by a splinter of a lava stone and was forced to run with one eye bandaged for the entire Giro. This did not, however, prevent him from rising to the top of the general classification 22 days later at the final finish line in Milan: to date he is still the second youngest winner ever, behind only Fausto Coppi who triumphed at the age of twenty in the 1940 edition.
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All this, it must be said, with a non-trivial advantage for the good Marchisio. In the previous editions, in fact, Alfredo Binda had dominated so clearly (4 final successes and 33 stages) that the organizers put on the table of the Campionissimo of Cittiglio the considerable amount for the time of 22,500 lire (the equivalent of 25 thousand euros today). But not to convince him to show up at the start again, but exactly the opposite, that is, to leave him at home, in order to make the Giro more open and less predictable. Binda, however, will return the following year. And after two unlucky editions, he took the 1933 edition, thus signing the first five in the team’s history, later equaled by Fausto Coppi and Eddy Merckx.
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2024-05-23 05:27:12
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