The death of Ferdinand Kübler draws down the veil on cycling’s so-called 'Golden Age'. Procycling examines the career and legacy of a true giant of the sport.
Some years ago I was tasked with interviewing Fiorenzo Magni. It was one of my first assignments for this magazine, and the chance to spend time with an authentic cycling legend. Magni had won the Giro d’Italia three times after World War Two, and had completed an unprecedented and as yet unequalled Tour of Flanders hattrick between 1949 and 1951. Though by no means the most talented cyclist in the world, he was by common consent the hardest, bravest and the most ruthless.
His study, close to the car dealership he built in Monza, was a mirror on his character. It was his place of work, and Magni was anything but a sentimentalist. Thus, the miscellany of his family life aside, there was very little aesthetic embellishment and almost no reference whatsoever to the great cyclist he’d been. Fiorenzo Magni was going on 90 years old but he still lived as he’d ridden. No flannel, no fake probity, no interest in romanticising what hehad done or who he had been.
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