The Christmas and New Year holidays are a consolidated and pleasant opportunity for exchanging traditional greetings with family, friends and acquaintances, in various capacities. Sometimes, however, it is a reason to hear sad news of some somewhat surprising disappearance, one might say.
This is it the case of Massimo Mezzatenta, proudly always “Roman of Rome” where he was born on 18 November 1942 and grew up in the central and famous Via Panisperna, among noble palaces, artisan shops, characteristic trattorias, in the Monti district, famous for “The boys of Via Panisperna”. It was the group of physicists led by Enrico Fermi who, in the years around 1930, gave considerable impetus to new frontiers and discoveries in physics on a global level.
And Massimo Mazzatenta, graduated surveyor, a professional who has always rejected the computer to operate with the old “rule”, a cycling enthusiast who also competed for a long timealso dressing the yellow-red jersey of AS Roma Ciclismo directed by Vinicio Corridi, alias “er Cannola”, very popular sporting director of the association founded by Pietro Chiappini.
Still continuing to pedal, he then collaborated closely with Franco Mealli’s Velo Club Forze Sportive Romane where he also met Mauro Vegni who, having moved to RCS Organioni Sportive in 1995, called him to collaborate, with various others from the Roman group, in the pink races. And he was at home… at the Vegni house, Massimo Mazzatenta during the racing period, wearing his invariable blue blazer with the “Columbus” dove in his buttonhole and often wearing Franciscan sandals.
He drove the race management cars, the jury and, finally, after the years around 2010, the calmer driving of the anti-doping inspectors. For several years he had been living in his “buen retiro” on the hills of Velletri and until last year he pedaled – leisurely – almost daily on his racing bike.
Violent pneumonia caused his death on September 3rd. The memory remains of his proud and disenchanted speech, with lively but always gentle irony.
To the daughter, Mrs. Stefania and her nephew Valerio, heartfelt condolences from tuttoBICI and tuttobiciweb.it
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