TOUR DE FRANCE | 27/06/2024 | 18:54
by Pier Augusto Stagi
It may be the cradle of the Renaissance, but here the Tour risks dying. Just a nice way to welcome the largest stage race in the world, the most coveted and most viewed in the world, which the Florentines are interested in little more than nothing.
Piazzale Michelangelo, an enchanting balcony overlooking the lily-filled city, is half empty. The city has no yellow hues, you arrive at the station and it seems like you have arrived not in the city that hosts the Grand Depart. The French organizers inform the international media that the shuttle service is provided by the municipality: I recommend it. Absolute delirium, worthy of Bogota.
The mystery lies in why former mayor Dario Nardella wanted with all his heart an event that the city doesn’t even care about in the slightest. He thought he could repay the city with an event never seen before in Italy and that probably – rightly – we will never see again. Here they are not proud of having Raphael or Brunelleschi, Verrocchio or Perugino, but they are stuck in Batistuta, that’s how they are, imagine if they are Pogacar or Vingegaard, Roglic or Bettiol. The rest doesn’t matter, the rest doesn’t matter. After all, they are the fathers of the language, which is not French.
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