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Article: On your bicycle. (history of the world record for miles ridden in one hour)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 26, 1994
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THE tifosi, as Italian sports fans are called, may be the most enthusiastic in the solar system about cycling, but until January few of them had ever heard of Vanni Sanna, a 25-year-old racer. Or, more accurately, rider. Although he was champion of Piedmont a few years back, Mr Sanna now holds only an A4 licence, that of a cicloamatore--not far above somebody who likes to get out on a Sunday on his bicycle and roll along back roads, admiring the scenery and perhaps pausing to catch his breath once he has made it to the top of a long hill.
Not the sort of person, in short, to attack the most revered record in the sport: the hour's ride against the clock, around and ...