Re-Cycle: The cycling history podcast

The Woman in White: When Magni thwarted Coppi after an insult from his mistress

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Episode notes

As Re-Cycle returns, we look back at the 1956 edition of Il Lombardia, when Fiorenzo Magni – incensed by some goading from the so-called Woman in White – denied Fausto Coppi a sensational sixth win in the autumn Classic as the leaves were falling on the poster boy of Italian cycling’s career.

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