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Who knows how many photos, posters, postcards Felice Gimondi<\/strong> put his signature on last Sunday at Velofollies<\/strong>? No way to calculate, for sure plenty of, maybe thousands, a clear sign of the Italian champion\u2019s everlasting popularity. Felice was special guest at Belgium\u2019s Kortrjik<\/strong> great Expo crowded by over 50.000 visitors<\/strong> in three days, kind of a wonderland for all bike-addicts in the Flemish area, arguably the most cycling passionate in Europe, maybe even in the whole World.<\/p>\n Granfondo Felice Gimondi-Bianchi<\/strong> was in the spotlights during the whole three-day event with its own booth to promote the event among Benelux area cycling fans and those coming from beyond the French borders. \u201cIt was a positive stay there<\/em> – Granfondo organizer Giuseppe Manenti<\/strong> explained ,\u2013 whose redemption we will see on short or medium term, that\u2019s sure. We aim to make our race more and more international, this year\u2019s edition dedicated to 50 years of Felice\u2019s yellow jersey at Tour de France provided the perfect occasion to step up with our promotion, also considering the wealth of low-cost flight connections from Belgium to Bergamo\u2019s airport<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Gimondi was on the stage on Sunday for a long and comprehensive interview, capturing the audience imaginations with many anecdotes about his sportsman\u2019s and personal life, besides his Granfondo technical features. \u201cI\u2019m always excited to return here<\/em> – Felice said \u2013 as I spent so many great days of my career in this area . As I read Roubaix at the highway exit I felt like my heart had skipped a beat\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The visitors tributed a real show of affection to the Italian champion in Kortrjik. \u201cFelice excited me a lot as a rider, now I dream of riding side by side with him at the Granfondo in Bergamo<\/em>\u201d, a cycling fan, Richard, said.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who knows how many photos, posters, postcards Felice Gimondi put his signature on last Sunday at Velofollies? No way to calculate, for sure plenty of, maybe thousands, a clear sign of the Italian champion\u2019s everlasting popularity. Felice was special guest at Belgium\u2019s Kortrjik great Expo crowded by over 50.000 visitors in three days, kind of a wonderland for all bike-addicts in the Flemish area, arguably the most cycling passionate in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4,6,9,8,5],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comunicati-stampa","tag-bianchi","tag-felice-gimondi","tag-granfondo-felice-gimondi-bianchi","tag-kortrijik","tag-tour-de-france-1965","tag-velofollies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.granfondobgy.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}