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00:00:15We are in Colle Umberto di San Martino, near Treviso, where on 1 August 1894 he was born
00:00:22Ottavio Botticchia, one of the major protagonists of the Italian cycling epic.
00:00:26A contemporary of Girardengo, Brunero, Belloni, Linari.
00:00:35Two circumstances contributed to isolating Botticchia's figure from the other great riders of the time.
00:00:41The fact that he was the first Italian to win the Tour de France is the mysterious way in which
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00:05:20this machine gun goes 170 kilometers, 170 kilometers of machine gun.
00:05:26He passes me to Del Piave, who is a lieutenant who sees me arriving and thinks I'm lost.
00:05:33Tell me, where are you from? What's your regiment?
00:05:38And I answer myself, I'm a cyclist and a Bersagliere. And how come you're alone?
00:05:44I explain the story to myself, and then he sees the machine gun. What's that? What's he doing with the machine gun?
00:05:48And I say to myself, but if it's government stuff, if it costs money, I'm not crazy.
00:06:00Bottecchia escaped the Austrians three times and for this he earned the Bronze Medal for Military Valor.
00:06:06But now, at the end of the conflict, he would also like to escape from the poverty that forces him to work as a bricklayer and then as a
00:06:12carter.
00:06:13The bicycle, despite the father's contrary opinion, seems like a solution,
00:06:17especially when a family of entrepreneurs in the sector, the Carniellis, began to believe in his abilities.
00:06:23In my opinion, he was a normal athlete, as one would perhaps find many today.
00:06:31However, the profession of the cyclist is not given only by the means to the thirteen, but is given by other relationships
00:06:42which are those due to intelligence.
00:06:44But above all a basic relationship which is that of knowing how to suffer.
00:06:49Bottecchia knew how to suffer on a bicycle.
00:06:52A demonstration of his strength, his ability and above all his suffering, was the result obtained in the three
00:07:03Tours of France that he has traveled.
00:07:06In the first Tour of France he came second because he had a special team service,
00:07:12but when he had absolute freedom he demonstrated his abilities, his strength and his courage.
00:07:20He couldn't speak much, no, French, he couldn't even speak Italian, poor thing.
00:07:24I live in a family that didn't have all the necessary food, you know, if the man had had it all
00:07:31modern conforms, I don't know, could reach the moon by bicycle nowadays.
00:07:35Bottecchia, in fact, true, he was detaching them with such a ridiculous ease of climbing that, look, I was left amazed and there
00:07:42he was talking about quarters of an hour, you know, we're not talking about five minutes.
00:07:45Yes, look, at that time he was pushing exactly one meter more than us, we were pushing 6 and 12, because
00:07:53he was hitting 46 with 16, and he was pushing 7 meters and 20, think how much stronger he was than
00:07:59it was us.
00:07:59First of the isolated, but also fifth overall at the Giro d'Italia of 23, that rider without a past, half Veneto and
00:08:06half Friulian, when all Italian cycling comes only from Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria.
00:08:13He was noticed by Aldo Borella, correspondent from Paris for the Gazzetta dello Sport, but also a trusted man in Italy
00:08:20of a large transalpine cycling team, the automotor.
00:08:40It's 1923, the French company Automotor, a major bicycle brand, want an Italian champion to go and race the
00:08:48tour to help Henri Pellissier finally win this great boucle that always eluded him.
00:08:53To win the big classics he didn't know how to win the Tour. And then they come to Italy and see the Tour that
00:08:57there's Giovanni Brunero who is going very strong, who has already won the Giro, from Ciriaco, from Turin, who is doing well
00:09:03uphill.
00:09:04They want him at all costs, but he says no, the Giro d'Italia is enough for me, having won is enough for me
00:09:08the tour, I no longer feel like making this effort and going on the tour.
00:09:11And fate has already taken its turn, because then they call Ottavio Bottecchia as Brunero's reserve.
00:09:18Bottecchia's arrival in Paris is beautiful. Bottecchia goes there in velvet trousers, with patches, the
00:09:31peasant shirt, peasant shirt,
00:09:35a cap, a cardboard suitcase in his left hand and a handle in his right hand. It appears in the heart of
00:09:45Paris to Monsieur Montet, who is the patron of automotor.
00:09:51He looks at him with contempt and whispers to sporting director Pierrat, we have to send this guy home immediately.
00:09:59Pierrat tells him no, he's very strong. And then they chat and pretend nothing's happening. When Bottecchia leaves, Monsieur
00:10:09Montet says to Pierrat, we'll stay up late to wait for him.
00:10:15The French are actually a bit perplexed. Pelissier saw Henri Pelissier go strong, but the managers say...
00:10:22but what do we do with this boy?
00:10:24No, but let's give him a normal bike, he'll do three stages and then stop. And instead Ottavio Bottecchia
00:10:30in 1923 he wore the yellow jersey at the Tour and it was there that he also fought to win the Tour.
00:10:35But suddenly on the Isoar, in the Alps, he has a day of crazy crisis. And a Bergamo rider, Leon Schür, said to
00:10:42everyone who had been poisoned.
00:10:44There had been a poisoned coffee poisoning to prevent him from winning the Tour de France.
00:10:49and that Henri Pelissier could finally win.
00:10:51Who knows how things really went, in any case Bottecchia went into crisis, he climbed the Isoar on foot, think about it
00:10:591923 with those roads, with those bicycles, with those relationships.
00:11:02He lost the yellow jersey, the yellow jersey that belonged to Henri Pelissier. He recovered, and always recovered, he could have.
00:11:08in the next stages attack it.
00:11:10But he was careful not to do so, he was his captain. However, at the end of the tour he came in second, they gave him a lot of praise.
00:11:15money for him to stay in France.
00:11:17In Italy that second place was praised by everyone, by the newspapers, he came second in the Tour. No Italian had ever
00:11:24won the Tour, born in 1903.
00:11:26When Borella asks him to participate in the Tour de France, even though the Tour de France is so grueling, difficult, with
00:11:34three mountains, three passes above 2000 metres,
00:11:38Bottecchia doesn't hesitate to accept. Because he doesn't work, he's not a cycling enthusiast.
00:11:46He does it for work, for money. In Veneto, he skates, preferably a lot of skates.
00:11:55And so he leaves, even if from the beginning of the Tour de France, to the end of the Giro d'Italia, they only run
00:12:0215 days.
00:12:04He's leaving anyway. He has to do it because it's his job.
00:12:09And this is probably the reason why many Italians refused to participate in that edition.
00:12:15Because the Tour de France is extremely tough.
00:12:19The highest pass in the 1923 Giro d'Italia, won by Girardengo, is a pass at 1230 metres, on the
00:12:26Maiella.
00:12:26While at the Tour de France there are the Tourmalet, the Galibier and the Isoar, in 1923.
00:12:36So the greatest Italian runners think twice,
00:12:40before risking his fame in such a tough race.
00:12:46Bottecchia, on the other hand, isn't interested in anything.
00:12:48Bottecchia is interested in getting money and working on the bicycle.
00:12:53French journalists admire Bottecchia for his position on the bike.
00:13:00It moves forward without jolts, it is very smooth.
00:13:03They see it as regular as the balance of a pendulum.
00:13:06Then it seems that he has revolutionized the very position of the cyclist on their racing machine.
00:13:14French journalists all note that his style on the mountain passes is unique.
00:13:20They say, they write, climb by holding the top of the handlebars,
00:13:25resting his hands on the brake levers.
00:13:27A very particular posture, never seen before,
00:13:31which will quickly be copied and will make him appear as the authentic Italian runner.
00:13:42After a few performances in the French velodromes to earn some more nice money,
00:13:48Bottecchia returned home and was found at the Milan station greeted by a river of people.
00:13:55One nice thing to note is that they all stopped in the first class carriage area.
00:14:02and nobody got off there.
00:14:05There was a moment of concern, of commotion, because they didn't see him coming,
00:14:11but he alighted very silently and solitarily from a third-class carriage.
00:14:17He was already a well-known, important figure,
00:14:21he had collected a lot of nice money in France, 20,000 francs per stage,
00:14:26and was about to collect a subscription of 61,000 lire from Italian fans at the Gazzetta dello Sport.
00:14:35So finally Bottecchia had the money,
00:14:37he had succeeded in his aim of being able to earn what was needed to keep his family from living in poverty.
00:14:49Determined, courageous, sure of himself, but also of his thoughts,
00:14:53with his diary from the Tour de France in Veneto,
00:14:57but with an authoritative and ironic tone,
00:14:59written for the sports warrior stage by stage in that 1923.
00:15:04What say you, Italian plebs, when the evening is over, outside the dispatches
00:15:09with Furlan's stomach ranking?
00:15:12Bottecchia is the classic example of a cyclist born for that type of cycling and that's it,
00:15:18which was probably another discipline compared to the normal cycling we know.
00:15:23It was the cycling of the heroes of the Tour de France,
00:15:26that is, born for great effort.
00:15:29As Henri Pellissier said, the good de Grange does not want pure blood,
00:15:34He wants mules, he doesn't want muscle, he wants callus.
00:15:37Here, these were the qualities that Ottavio Bottecchia had,
00:15:40which in Italy was then somehow mocked by the various Girardengo and Binda,
00:15:45but he, when we were doing more than 400 kilometers,
00:15:49he was a runner born for that kind of enormous effort.
00:15:55He was an extraordinarily strong mule, with a very large head.
00:16:00De Grange sees Bottecchia as the ideal rider,
00:16:04explains that Bottecchia is a remarkable runner,
00:16:08who knows how to set a hard pace,
00:16:11who has a head capable of thinking and reflecting,
00:16:14adding that Bottecchia appears as the exemplary cyclist
00:16:18which he himself had imagined.
00:16:21That is, Bottecchia is trained, prepared
00:16:23and knows how to stay in shape from the start to the finish of the race.
00:16:27Bottecchia, in course in 23 for the money,
00:16:30now he knows that next year he will be able to race again in the tour
00:16:33for a lot more money, but also for glory.
00:16:36That crazy race doesn't scare him in the least, that's for sure.
00:16:53Bottecchia begins the tour on the 24th in a sumptuous manner.
00:16:59He immediately goes on the attack, makes the selection,
00:17:02he takes the lead, pulls, splits, pulverizes the group
00:17:06and wins at Avra.
00:17:09Bottecchia takes the yellow jersey and never loses it.
00:17:13It's not a journey of glory, it's a journey of suffering.
00:17:18After three stages he writes a letter in which he says
00:17:22"I cry at night, I can't sleep, everyone is against me."
00:17:27And this gives an idea of suffering.
00:17:31By the way, his team was immediately halved.
00:17:35because at the start of the third stage Henri Pellissier,
00:17:39with brother Francis and Conville, who had come second in the second stage,
00:17:45they retire and do the most famous interview in the history of the tour
00:17:50to Albert Londres, the correspondent of the Petites Parisiennes.
00:17:54Bottecchia with a halved team, always working alone
00:17:58and attacked by everyone, he managed to keep the yellow jersey for the entire Tour.
00:18:05He wins several stages.
00:18:08He made his masterpiece in the seventh stage
00:18:12with the Hobisque, the Tourmalet, the Spen and the Pérez Surb.
00:18:18He attacks on the Hobisque, goes over the top first and alone, and does all the other three steps alone.
00:18:26and wins by 16 minutes over the second after a 140 kilometre solo.
00:18:34This is the most beautiful pearl.
00:18:36Then he indulges in another gem which is the victory at the Parc des Princes,
00:18:42a resounding victory that sent all Italian emigrants into raptures.
00:19:17This is an automoto that Bottecchia used in 1923 and 1924.
00:19:22Its weight is around 14-15 kg when fully loaded.
00:19:28By load I mean all those tubes or inner tubes
00:19:31which were attached to the frame as well as on the body.
00:19:35The gear ratios on this bike are 18-22,
00:19:40four teeth difference.
00:19:42The basic problem is that something smaller could have been put in there too
00:19:46or even bigger for the climb.
00:19:49But the point is that it doesn't fit on the frame,
00:19:52The frame doesn't fit on the dropout due to the length of the chain.
00:19:55The speed they could reach on the plain,
00:19:58probably 35-37, maybe even 40 miles an hour,
00:20:02but I don't know for how long with these relationships.
00:20:05Uphill instead with a slightly more agile ratio,
00:20:08they didn't have an absurd speed.
00:20:12In fact, there's a photo where he's zigging,
00:20:17but it's not the only one.
00:20:18In some other races the runners push the bike by hand
00:20:22because the climb is too steep, too steep.
00:20:26And when they could pedal,
00:20:28However, pedaling uphill was so hard,
00:20:31strong, but still slow,
00:20:34that the photos show that the audience next door,
00:20:37it's not that he's on the way,
00:20:39is that he is pedaling, but maybe at 3-4 km per hour.
00:20:51If one goes in search, as I did,
00:20:53as a collector, as an enthusiast,
00:20:55I discovered that in reality the shirts from those years
00:20:58they were very colorful.
00:20:59For example, we have the G.P. Louvet,
00:21:01who had the orange, red-orange and emerald-green shirt.
00:21:06We have the Peugeot, which had yellow and blue, very bright.
00:21:11And here is the automotor, which Bottecchia also wore.
00:21:16Here is a beautiful purple, which then faded over the years,
00:21:21because Bottecchia, let's say, wore this shirt from 23 to 26.
00:21:26So it went from a lighter purple first,
00:21:29then a purple with grey bands,
00:21:31then a darker purple,
00:21:33then a purple with shaded grey bands.
00:21:52Bottecchia's deeds over time
00:21:54push many authors to tell them, even in comics.
00:21:58I came across Giacomo's story with great emotion,
00:22:01because it had all the features inside
00:22:05stories that I would have loved and wanted to draw.
00:22:09There was the sporting fact, therefore the great sporting fact,
00:22:12the first Italian to win the Tour de France in 1924,
00:22:16but alongside this there was also a sporting event,
00:22:19to the sporting issue there was also the political issue,
00:22:21because Bottecchia, who is of humble origins,
00:22:27learn to read and write in those years
00:22:29and thanks to the Pellissier brothers,
00:22:32well-known anarchists of the French Tour scene,
00:22:36he raced for Atkinson Automoto,
00:22:38that is, for the house headed by the Pellissier brothers,
00:22:41become a socialist, learn libertarian ideas,
00:22:44because these three characters are loved by all of France
00:22:47for their sporting exploits they also had this characteristic.
00:22:50Henri Pellissier, who is the most famous of the three brothers,
00:22:54he was also a well-known womanizer and in fact he ends up killed
00:22:58from one of his lovers on the first of May of I don't know what year,
00:23:03anyway let's also say the date,
00:23:04which is Labor Day, quite significant.
00:23:09But he was someone who liked to come into conflict with power,
00:23:14in fact he came into conflict with The Grange,
00:23:16the famous quip of stopping at a bar.
00:23:20The Grange was the leader of the Tour de France,
00:23:22the one who invented the Tour de France.
00:23:26And they stop at a small tavern.
00:23:29Yes, and they call the journalists and hold a press conference
00:23:32in which they say...
00:23:33In front of glasses of wine.
00:23:34Yes, yes, yes, they stop.
00:23:36Already stopping at the Tour de France.
00:23:38They stop and say,
00:23:39we are the forced laborers of the street,
00:23:41by regulation it's terrible
00:23:42and they want to see us die on the bike.
00:23:45And so it was a strong protest at the time.
00:23:48And on this approach of the cyclist from San Martino di Colle Umberto
00:23:52to anarcho-socialist ideals
00:23:54It has been talked about for a long time even within the Bottecchia family.
00:23:57Del Rio is a socialist family.
00:23:59Socialist and especially also in France,
00:24:00in that period it is socialism, of course.
00:24:03In Luchon, when Henri de Coen,
00:24:05the famous journalist of the newspaper Paris Soir,
00:24:09asks him what he thinks of Mussolini,
00:24:12Bottecchia responds cautiously.
00:24:15He says he loves cycling
00:24:17on the great roads of Italy and France,
00:24:19but who has never seen Mussolini.
00:24:22And they always try to place him on one side or the other.
00:24:28I quote the journalist
00:24:29«When politics gets in the way,
00:24:31Bottecchia is devoured in anti-fascist sauce
00:24:34or fried in sea urchin oil, they write,
00:24:37depending on the currents of thought".
00:24:39However, it is noted that Bottecchia
00:24:41he never took a position on fascism
00:24:44during his participations in the tour.
00:24:47And as we have seen,
00:24:50he knew how to deceive the questions
00:24:52and maybe this explains
00:24:53because he will never be welcomed by Mussolini,
00:24:56because he will never receive
00:24:57a congratulatory telegram
00:25:00of the fascist hierarchs.
00:25:02Bottecchia finally,
00:25:03for this French press,
00:25:05appears as the hero of the street
00:25:07and not of fascism.
00:25:24Meanwhile, Ottavio has already gotten married.
00:25:27In 1920 he brought to the altar
00:25:29twenty-one year old Caterina Zambon,
00:25:31his fellow countrywoman.
00:25:32The following year Elena Giovanna was born,
00:25:35who dies of diphtheria after only seven months.
00:25:37Then they arrive, in the autumn of 23
00:25:40and in November 25,
00:25:42lucky Vittoria and Danilo Amerigo.
00:25:44His relationship with Caterina Zambon
00:25:47it is described very well by Bruno Roghi
00:25:50when he talks about meeting Bottecchia
00:25:53at the Terminer in Milan Sanremo,
00:25:57at Sanremo station.
00:25:58And there is the famous image of Bottecchia
00:26:01which represents misery,
00:26:03the somewhat wrinkled man,
00:26:09very, I dare say, almost gloomy.
00:26:11This image of misery.
00:26:13But this image of misery
00:26:14changes suddenly
00:26:15when Bruno Roghi identifies
00:26:18the bunch of red carnations
00:26:21that he has in his hand since Sanremo
00:26:24to bring him back to his wife Catherine
00:26:27at Colle Umberto.
00:26:29That bunch of red carnations
00:26:31immediately illuminates the picture
00:26:35told by Bruno Roghi
00:26:37and also demonstrates the very intense relationship
00:26:40that he has with Caterina Zambon.
00:26:43But then the most emblematic image
00:26:46of harmony,
00:26:48of the strong bond that exists
00:26:49between Ottavio and Caterina
00:26:51it's the great photography
00:26:53which is now on display in a giant photograph
00:26:57in front of what is presumed
00:26:59to be Bottecchia's birthplace
00:27:00in which they are represented
00:27:02this large blow-up
00:27:03Bottecchia's 36 grandchildren,
00:27:07the 36 children who are part of
00:27:09of his family,
00:27:10newly covered by Ottavio
00:27:13with the victory at the Tour de France
00:27:14in 1924.
00:27:16And on the one hand,
00:27:17and on the other side of photography,
00:27:20like the benefactors
00:27:21in the great Flemish televisions,
00:27:25in the great Flemish palaces,
00:27:27there is Ottavio on one side
00:27:29and on the other Caterina Zambon.
00:27:33It's the two of them
00:27:34that hold up the whole image.
00:27:54The Assembly of Life,
00:27:56when he won,
00:27:58covered all 32 grandchildren.
00:28:00The first money
00:28:02was covering.
00:28:04he also took me to Sussorea
00:28:07who went home
00:28:09and had money to pay for them.
00:28:13Over there, money,
00:28:16a part,
00:28:18two Tours of France,
00:28:21he took the money.
00:28:38After the success in 1924,
00:28:41the big favorite
00:28:42for the 25th Tour
00:28:43he doesn't back down
00:28:45with or without
00:28:46the Otomotò deployed
00:28:47at his side
00:28:48he knows he has the means
00:28:50to experience success
00:28:51of the previous year.
00:28:59The whole Tour unites against him
00:29:02and has enemies
00:29:04even within his team.
00:29:07For example,
00:29:08must undergo an attack
00:29:10by Lucien Bouis
00:29:12which puts him in crisis.
00:29:15Bottecchia breaks away,
00:29:17must react
00:29:18with a chase
00:29:19of 100 kilometers
00:29:21and so on
00:29:22must suffer.
00:29:24Then he scores a double
00:29:26in the sixth and seventh stages
00:29:28proving himself
00:29:30the strongest.
00:29:32Cross the Pyrenees
00:29:33always dominating,
00:29:36going up
00:29:37and still first
00:29:39on the Obis
00:29:40it's been three years
00:29:42what a Bottecchia
00:29:43pass first on the Obis
00:29:44but then
00:29:45is going into crisis
00:29:47for the storm
00:29:48of the Tourmalet
00:29:49but this time too
00:29:51he manages to land on his feet.
00:29:53He keeps the yellow jersey
00:29:55and succeeds
00:29:57to answer
00:29:59to all attacks.
00:30:01They are also attacks
00:30:03incorrect,
00:30:04for example
00:30:04there are many
00:30:06complaints against him
00:30:07for reasons
00:30:09futile.
00:30:10Meaning what
00:30:11there are three complaints,
00:30:13two are rejected
00:30:14because they were
00:30:15on non-existent things
00:30:16and the third
00:30:18for not having signed
00:30:20at the control
00:30:21of Sospel
00:30:22something that
00:30:24it happened
00:30:26to others too
00:30:27runners
00:30:28and that was healed
00:30:29with a fine
00:30:30they give him
00:30:31ten minutes
00:30:32of penalty.
00:30:34This doesn't change
00:30:35the situation
00:30:36Bottecchia
00:30:37dominates the Tour
00:30:38and another time
00:30:40he grants himself
00:30:41the finesse
00:30:42to win
00:30:43at the Parc des Princes.
00:30:45The war is La Chaux-Elysée
00:30:47Tour de France
00:30:48and our channel
00:30:49it was another time
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00:31:18Alessandro, this is Bottecchia's path, but it's also your path. How many times have you taken it?
00:31:22But I grew up cycling on these roads and I can say I've been here dozens of times.
00:31:31Especially when I was little, I started out on these roads, on this stretch.
00:31:36So, the myth of Bottecchia, what did it mean to you when you were a child cyclist?
00:31:40But for us who started cycling here it was a figure to which we have been continuously accustomed from
00:31:48'start
00:31:49because it was said that the Bottecchia road was taken and we passed in front of the place of death
00:31:56and so we all grew up with this idea, with this figure of this cyclist
00:32:03who for us perhaps at the beginning when we were little was a sort of Coppi, therefore a very important figure
00:32:12who had won a lot and who was practically among the best Italians in history.
00:32:20Can you imagine what it was like to do a Tour de France with 400km stages on dirt roads, with those bikes?
00:32:27in those conditions?
00:32:28No, no, it is impossible for us to even imagine.
00:32:32Perhaps we have other ways of working hard, of being runners,
00:32:38but what they were experiencing was perhaps more primitive, almost,
00:32:44the simplest but also perhaps the most difficult, the most extreme.
00:32:49But then after two triumphs suddenly, that money that was the driving force of his life,
00:32:55those pennies change his existence, his way of life and above all his preparation for the following season.
00:33:01In the 26th Tour, Bottecchia, who has won the last two Tours, is still considered the favourite.
00:33:09It actually comes from a failed season.
00:33:13He never won and he lost a lot of time because at the end of 25 he went to America.
00:33:22In America you go by ship and it meant three weeks of sailing to go,
00:33:29three weeks to return, then there he only did track races,
00:33:34so he did three months without any real training,
00:33:38then he came back, he had other commitments on the track,
00:33:43so he started the season in good condition, he had put on weight,
00:33:50and in much smaller conditions than the other three years.
00:34:02Out comes one tire, then out comes the second tire, then out comes the third tire,
00:34:06then out comes the fourth tire, then out comes the fifth tire, then out comes the sixth tire,
00:34:11and finally arrives with more than half an hour to go,
00:34:16in the first stage which was to be that of his triumph,
00:34:21he has already lost the Tour.
00:34:26The final act of his sporting drama takes place in the place where it was lit
00:34:34the great supernova of Bottecchia, that is, in the Pyrenees.
00:34:37Bottecchia is numb, despite this he attacks on the Bisc,
00:34:42but it stays in the lead for a very short time and then sinks,
00:34:46and it sinks irremediably.
00:34:49he arrives at the Tour Malet, passes twenty-second and does not reach the finish line.
00:34:56It is the hardest stage in the history of the Tour.
00:35:06Bottecchia would like a turning point in 27,
00:35:08would like to finish with the Tour de France,
00:35:10do the Saint-Rémo, the Giro d'Italia,
00:35:12but a fall and the consequent dislocation of a shoulder
00:35:16They mess up all his plans.
00:35:18In May he is still in France to earn Skane on the track.
00:35:22Here is the tragedy that, this one, changes his destiny.
00:35:29On May 22, 1927, Brother Giovanni
00:35:34he is hit by his bicycle in a road accident.
00:35:38Giovanni Bottecchia dies the next day.
00:35:40In Vittorio Veneto you don't think they had traffic like they do now.
00:35:45Two happy cyclists,
00:35:47so I have a lot of doubts there too.
00:35:49Doubts that either the driver was drunk,
00:35:55either he was going left and right, or I don't know.
00:35:59The story came to light at the end of the 1980s
00:36:02by Enrico Spitaleri, Sicilian, writer,
00:36:05art teacher at Colle Umberto since 1960.
00:36:09But above all Spitaleri discovered in 2008
00:36:12who was driving that car
00:36:14and whose driver that person was.
00:36:16One enters, he is my barber,
00:36:20who is now dead,
00:36:22and it makes me
00:36:23"Professor,
00:36:25it may be that you don't know
00:36:27Who hit Giovanni Bottecchia?
00:36:31«Fuck!»
00:36:33I say
00:36:33"Tell me!
00:36:35I can't talk to you here,
00:36:38come to the barbershop."
00:36:42Good morning he said
00:36:43that I went to get offers.
00:36:46And then he told me
00:36:48«Ugo dell'Antonia,
00:36:53Marinotti's driver."
00:36:55Some people also say
00:36:56that perhaps at the wheel
00:36:57if it were Marinotti himself.
00:36:59Really?
00:37:00Some people say this too.
00:37:01Someone says,
00:37:02there are many,
00:37:03now they say a lot of things.
00:37:05But didn't he have a driving license?
00:37:07Maybe you
00:37:07it means the fact
00:37:08who didn't know how to drive.
00:37:10Franco Marinotti
00:37:11he is an important man.
00:37:13Born in the current
00:37:14Vittorio Veneto
00:37:15in 1891,
00:37:16in 1921
00:37:18founds
00:37:19with the industrialist
00:37:19Borletti Textiles
00:37:20the industrial company
00:37:22foreign trade
00:37:23who keeps the relationships
00:37:24between Lenin's Russia
00:37:26and Mussolini's Italy.
00:37:27In 1925
00:37:29the leader wants it
00:37:30wedding witness
00:37:31with the woman Rachele.
00:37:32Octavio Bottecchia
00:37:34he's competing
00:37:35to Baffalo in Paris,
00:37:37get back on the train right away
00:37:38and go talk
00:37:41with Marinotti.
00:37:42Before you go
00:37:43he goes to his insurer
00:37:45in Pordenone
00:37:46why Bottecchia
00:37:47has insurance
00:37:48about life
00:37:49what is it worth
00:37:51in case of a fall.
00:37:54and then
00:37:55he goes to Marinotti.
00:37:56Marinotti
00:37:57offers
00:37:58100,000 lire
00:38:00of compensation
00:38:01because the investing machine
00:38:03it's his,
00:38:04the investor
00:38:05who has done his utmost
00:38:07to save your skin
00:38:09to Bottecchia's brother
00:38:10he brought it
00:38:11in the hospital
00:38:12but anyway
00:38:13he's to blame
00:38:14of the accident
00:38:15and offers
00:38:17100,000 lire.
00:38:18Bottecchia
00:38:19he believes
00:38:21the offer
00:38:23indecent
00:38:23Why
00:38:24There are
00:38:255 people
00:38:27without
00:38:28an activity
00:38:30of sustenance
00:38:31And
00:38:32we're arriving
00:38:34to an altercation.
00:38:36Even the moment
00:38:36by Marinotti
00:38:37it was a bit
00:38:37difficult
00:38:38and the moment
00:38:39by Bottecchia
00:38:40it was a moment
00:38:41of pure pain
00:38:43Therefore
00:38:43there is an altercation.
00:38:45Surely
00:38:46feel
00:38:47and feel
00:38:48despised
00:38:49of the brother
00:38:50that he had
00:38:51given as a gift
00:38:52the first bicycle
00:38:54what
00:38:55he had guaranteed him
00:38:56to make our fortune
00:38:58that they were
00:38:58both
00:39:00and always together
00:39:01And
00:39:02at a given moment
00:39:04maybe
00:39:05what a rant.
00:39:06But the story
00:39:07of the investment
00:39:08by Giovanni Bottecchia
00:39:09it doesn't close
00:39:09with a process
00:39:10that establishes
00:39:11guilt
00:39:12the compensation.
00:39:13I found
00:39:13the chancellor
00:39:14Furlan
00:39:15from Vittorio Veneto
00:39:16who worked
00:39:17there
00:39:19and it remained
00:39:20amazed
00:39:21Why
00:39:22were missing
00:39:23everyone
00:39:24the registers
00:39:25own
00:39:25those
00:39:26That
00:39:26they concerned
00:39:27the case
00:39:28Of
00:39:30John
00:39:32Bottecchia.
00:39:33Then
00:39:34among other things
00:39:36Marinotti
00:39:37he also had
00:39:38immunity
00:39:39that also
00:39:40the Duce
00:39:41allowed him.
00:39:42and it felt
00:39:44Safe
00:39:45of his
00:39:46everyone
00:39:48the Gerards.
00:39:51After death
00:39:52of the beloved
00:39:53brother John
00:39:54Octavius
00:39:54it is no longer
00:39:55the same
00:39:56despite that
00:39:57June 3rd
00:39:57of the 27th
00:39:58after saying goodbye
00:40:00fellow cyclists
00:40:01per lap
00:40:01that from Veneto
00:40:02he was going in
00:40:03Friuli
00:40:03he wants it again
00:40:04train
00:40:05on the usual
00:40:06known roads
00:40:07Perhaps
00:40:08Perhaps
00:40:08another
00:40:08tour
00:40:09he's waiting for him.
00:40:18that morning
00:40:19my grandfather
00:40:20he told me
00:40:20don't leave
00:40:21to training
00:40:22Why
00:40:22little one
00:40:24he was busy
00:40:25he didn't go away
00:40:26and he
00:40:26he came
00:40:27start
00:40:27but
00:40:27he wasn't there
00:40:28Well
00:40:29he wasn't there
00:40:30Well
00:40:31and in fact
00:40:32after it happened
00:40:32Like this
00:40:35why death
00:40:36of the brother
00:40:37it was 8 days
00:40:38he had left
00:40:40from his house
00:40:41from Pordenone
00:40:42alone
00:40:43as
00:40:44they were
00:40:44all appointments
00:40:46who thought
00:40:47to have
00:40:47those companions of his
00:40:49of pedaling
00:40:49they jumped
00:40:50for various reasons
00:40:51for which
00:40:52he left alone
00:40:54from one morning
00:40:55he went up
00:40:56in Clausetto
00:40:57he went down
00:40:58in Cornino
00:40:59Where
00:41:00local witnesses
00:41:01they told
00:41:02which stopped
00:41:03at the tavern
00:41:04of the country
00:41:05drinking too
00:41:06a beer
00:41:07frozen
00:41:07which according to
00:41:08some
00:41:09it was also
00:41:10the cause
00:41:11of the accident
00:41:12what happened to him
00:41:13Therefore
00:41:14from Cornino
00:41:16transit
00:41:17along the road
00:41:18military
00:41:18in the direction
00:41:20of Peonis
00:41:21and precisely
00:41:22here
00:41:23to a hundred
00:41:24of meters
00:41:25a woman
00:41:26that was
00:41:27working
00:41:27in the fields
00:41:28at a certain point
00:41:29he felt
00:41:30a noise
00:41:31as of
00:41:32a thud
00:41:33he turned around
00:41:34and saw
00:41:34a cyclist
00:41:36which was
00:41:36fell to the ground
00:41:37practically
00:41:38he was in pain
00:41:39At that time
00:41:40he called
00:41:41help
00:41:42and from
00:41:43a stable
00:41:44which was
00:41:44on the other side
00:41:45of the road
00:41:46they arrived
00:41:48two farmers
00:41:49which were
00:41:50the first
00:41:50who helped him
00:41:52this is the point
00:41:53that fell
00:41:54the first time
00:41:58I found myself
00:41:59above the wall
00:42:01I was there
00:42:03there
00:42:03at about
00:42:0430 meters
00:42:06distant
00:42:06by Quino
00:42:07I was me
00:42:08and my brother
00:42:09to repair
00:42:10a network
00:42:10to go
00:42:11fishing
00:42:11in the river
00:42:12and reassembled
00:42:13up on the bike
00:42:14I did
00:42:15another piece
00:42:16on the street
00:42:16that is gone
00:42:17to fall
00:42:18the second time
00:42:19there
00:42:20this is the place
00:42:22where he fell
00:42:23the second time
00:42:24left
00:42:24then I took it up
00:42:27and I brought it
00:42:28nearby
00:42:29I washed it here
00:42:31I took a bucket
00:42:32of water
00:42:33I cleaned it
00:42:34of the blood
00:42:34and then I uploaded it
00:42:36up behind the shoulders
00:42:37and I brought it
00:42:38in the village
00:42:38a farmer
00:42:40let's say
00:42:40which had been
00:42:41even to work
00:42:42in France
00:42:42he saw him fall
00:42:44and he picked it up
00:42:45on the shoulders
00:42:46and they brought it
00:42:47in this place here
00:42:49they laid him down
00:42:50on a table
00:42:51on two tables
00:42:52and all the children
00:42:53of the country
00:42:54they came to look
00:42:55Then
00:42:56own
00:42:57the owner
00:42:58of this bar
00:42:59he had the cart
00:43:01with the horse
00:43:02it was put
00:43:03on the cart
00:43:04and brought
00:43:05to the hospital
00:43:05from Gemona
00:43:06here we have
00:43:07the couple
00:43:07of a telegram
00:43:09match
00:43:10from Trasagis
00:43:12at 11.30 am
00:43:13of June 3rd
00:43:151927
00:43:16signed
00:43:17of Don
00:43:18Nigris Dante
00:43:19Where
00:43:21he says
00:43:22That
00:43:22found injured
00:43:23unconscious
00:43:25a cyclist
00:43:26on the road
00:43:27that from
00:43:28Cornino
00:43:29door to Trasagis
00:43:30and that
00:43:31from cards
00:43:32found
00:43:32it seems
00:43:33that it is
00:43:33Bottecchia
00:43:34Octavius
00:43:34Italian runner
00:43:36this is the
00:43:38first testimony
00:43:39of the accident
00:43:40which then
00:43:41he brought
00:43:41Bottecchia
00:43:42to death
00:43:43I realized
00:43:44of gravity
00:43:45I said
00:43:46certainly
00:43:47we need to provide
00:43:48that it is
00:43:48endured
00:43:48to the hospital
00:43:49but
00:43:50I don't remember
00:43:51Now
00:43:52but
00:43:52Not
00:43:53I do not have
00:43:54found
00:43:55that really
00:43:55era
00:43:56dying
00:43:57Why
00:43:58I don't remember
00:43:58to have them
00:43:59administered
00:44:00Surely
00:44:01anamnesi
00:44:02at the reception
00:44:03at the moment
00:44:04of the entrance
00:44:06shot down
00:44:07violently
00:44:07the head
00:44:08against a wall
00:44:09Lady
00:44:10the cause
00:44:10the sick person
00:44:11is in state
00:44:12of unconsciousness
00:44:15diagnosis
00:44:16fracture
00:44:17of the base
00:44:19and later
00:44:20death
00:44:21for meningo
00:44:21encephalitis
00:44:22but it could have been
00:44:24death treaty
00:44:25not accidental?
00:44:27this is a question
00:44:28True
00:44:29Certainly
00:44:30that needs to be done
00:44:31but
00:44:32so
00:44:33given that
00:44:34my colleague
00:44:35surgeon
00:44:36Dr. Luigi Riepi
00:44:38he doesn't have
00:44:39specified
00:44:40he didn't say
00:44:41anything
00:44:43on the
00:44:44nature
00:44:45of the wounds
00:44:46and has
00:44:47rather said
00:44:48what a lady
00:44:48the cause
00:44:49for which
00:44:50they were
00:44:50Me too
00:44:51I have to
00:44:52limit myself
00:44:53not to say
00:44:55Nothing
00:44:55on the
00:44:56nature
00:44:57of trauma
00:44:58my aunt
00:44:59he did
00:45:0010-11 days
00:45:01the assistance
00:45:02and I
00:45:04I was in a coma
00:45:05but something
00:45:06he said it
00:45:07he raised
00:45:09the arm too
00:45:10he wanted to talk
00:45:11but he said
00:45:13illness
00:45:15illness
00:45:16he said
00:45:17Yes
00:45:17some movement
00:45:18he did
00:45:19as he told me
00:45:20she
00:45:20but nothing
00:45:21After
00:45:21I am
00:45:25In short
00:45:26happened
00:45:28beating
00:45:29Yes
00:45:36June 15th
00:45:38of 1927
00:45:39at 10.45
00:45:40in the morning
00:45:41Octavio Bottecchia
00:45:42he dies
00:45:43to the hospital
00:45:43from Gemona
00:45:44from Friuli
00:45:45illness
00:45:45it's the motivation
00:45:46official
00:45:47of the fall
00:45:48Despite
00:45:49a double fracture
00:45:50of the base
00:45:50of the cranial vault
00:45:51that makes you think
00:45:53and it makes you think
00:45:54even the double fall
00:45:55to hear
00:45:56the witness
00:45:56eye
00:45:57Lorenzo
00:45:57by Santolo
00:45:58on a stretch
00:45:59that you can't
00:45:59certainly define
00:46:00downhill
00:46:01but if it's an accident
00:46:02by bicycle
00:46:03and Bottecchia
00:46:04he knew it well
00:46:05the insurance
00:46:06must pay
00:46:07the prize
00:46:07of 500,000 lire
00:46:09a lot of money
00:46:10that they can do
00:46:10live well
00:46:11his family
00:46:12and that one
00:46:13of brother Giovanni
00:46:14a huge prize
00:46:15that will send
00:46:16bankrupt
00:46:16the same
00:46:17insurance company
00:46:22our investigation
00:46:23our work
00:46:24he left
00:46:25precisely from this
00:46:25from the prize
00:46:26of the insurance
00:46:27paid immediately
00:46:28after death
00:46:28by Bottecchia
00:46:29500,000 lire
00:46:31of the 20s
00:46:31Obviously
00:46:32a huge figure
00:46:33there is questioned
00:46:35the fact
00:46:35that it had been
00:46:36paid
00:46:36right away
00:46:37the insurance
00:46:38Why
00:46:38death
00:46:40by Bottecchia
00:46:40it could have been
00:46:41unclear
00:46:42a death
00:46:43without witnesses
00:46:44death
00:46:44of a character
00:46:45public
00:46:45very important
00:46:47and very rich
00:46:48a death
00:46:49which could have been
00:46:50also brought back
00:46:50to an assault
00:46:51we know
00:46:52that there are
00:46:53three confessions
00:46:54at the point of death
00:46:55which concern
00:46:56precisely
00:46:57the end of Bottecchia
00:46:58with three people
00:46:59what they say
00:46:59how did it go
00:47:00we discarded
00:47:01the farmer's hypothesis
00:47:03the futile reasons
00:47:04because there is no name
00:47:05there is no circumstance
00:47:06and there is nothing certain
00:47:08we discarded
00:47:09the revenge hypothesis
00:47:10for rigged races
00:47:11because even in this case
00:47:12the person
00:47:13that he would have confessed
00:47:15he didn't bring
00:47:16any element
00:47:17of certainty
00:47:18the one who questioned us
00:47:20moreover
00:47:20it was the confession
00:47:21by Don Dante Nigris
00:47:23which imparts
00:47:24the three monzoni
00:47:24in Bottecchia
00:47:25immediately after the accident
00:47:26that many years later
00:47:28in 1973
00:47:29on the eve
00:47:31of his death
00:47:31he says
00:47:32look
00:47:32Bottecchia
00:47:34he told me
00:47:34in those moments
00:47:35which was the case
00:47:37of an assault
00:47:38in any case
00:47:39the money
00:47:40of the insurance
00:47:41they arrive
00:47:41to the family
00:47:42by Octavius
00:47:43but not to that one
00:47:44by John
00:47:45John's wife
00:47:46before dying
00:47:47he called me
00:47:48and he told me
00:47:51we didn't take
00:47:54a lira
00:47:55in life
00:47:56of death
00:47:58but someone
00:47:59he took them
00:47:59you know
00:47:59what he told me
00:48:01This
00:48:03someone
00:48:04he has them
00:48:04he made me
00:48:05ah
00:48:05the news
00:48:06what is he telling me
00:48:09if you told me so
00:48:10it did not become
00:48:12something
00:48:12In short
00:48:13something
00:48:14In short
00:48:15something
00:48:24June 17th
00:48:26the funerals
00:48:27by Ottavio Bottecchia
00:48:28in Gemona
00:48:29then to Pordenone
00:48:30then to Colle Umberto
00:48:31at the roll call
00:48:32with the exception
00:48:33of a presence
00:48:34in Gemona
00:48:34they are missing
00:48:35all the hierarchs
00:48:36fascists
00:48:37important
00:48:37and it makes even more noise
00:48:39the fact that they don't make it
00:48:40tribute to Bottecchia
00:48:41the great Italian cyclists
00:48:43Girardengo
00:48:44Aimo
00:48:44Brunero
00:48:44Vinda
00:48:45Belloni
00:48:45I'm going to swell
00:48:46none of them
00:48:47is present
00:48:48there is Henri Pellissier
00:48:50he does
00:48:50his captain
00:48:51on the 1923 tour
00:48:53came directly
00:48:54from Paris
00:48:55and then there is
00:48:56Alfonso Piccin
00:48:57his follower
00:48:58of trust
00:48:59that on August 15th
00:49:00next
00:49:01will win
00:49:02through tears
00:49:03the first
00:49:03memorial
00:49:04Octavio Bottecchia
00:49:05Little boy
00:49:06who will die
00:49:07a few years later
00:49:08September 8th
00:49:09of 32
00:49:09in an accident
00:49:10on a motorbike
00:49:11his new passion
00:49:12we have four photos
00:49:14which report
00:49:14these machines
00:49:15these flower crowns
00:49:17these gendarmes
00:49:18that accompany
00:49:19Bottecchia
00:49:19and then there are two photos
00:49:21with the burial
00:49:23in the San Martino area
00:49:25by Colomberto
00:49:26his country of origin
00:49:27here you can see
00:49:29the people
00:49:30that accompanies
00:49:31the coffin
00:49:33here is the widow
00:49:34with her daughter
00:49:35with a deck
00:49:36of flowers in hand
00:49:37these photos
00:49:38I am
00:49:39very rare
00:49:40And
00:49:41I would like to say
00:49:42even unique
00:49:52in France
00:49:53already at the end of the conflict
00:49:55turn the hypothesis around
00:49:56fascist ambush
00:49:57it will take us
00:49:58the tough one
00:49:59Enrico Spitaleri
00:50:0025 years old
00:50:01of meticulous investigations
00:50:03to support
00:50:04this thesis
00:50:05the creator
00:50:06of the ambush
00:50:07it's a team
00:50:09of the fascists
00:50:11who sent it
00:50:13and that could
00:50:15send
00:50:15a team
00:50:18fascist
00:50:18when speaking
00:50:20of bundle
00:50:20of militia
00:50:23and so on
00:50:24the figure
00:50:25by Marinotti
00:50:26in flowers
00:50:26it counted for a lot
00:50:28in this context
00:50:30another element
00:50:31arrives paradoxically
00:50:32from the same
00:50:33Franco Marinotti
00:50:34that in his
00:50:35memorial
00:50:35of 1933
00:50:37quoted by
00:50:38Lucio Villari
00:50:39In the
00:50:39Capitalism
00:50:40Italian of the
00:50:41nine hundred
00:50:41he writes like this
00:50:42in Italy
00:50:43a spirit was maturing
00:50:44new that attracted me
00:50:45I would have liked to be
00:50:47among the first
00:50:47to second him
00:50:48but to belong
00:50:49to the combat bundles
00:50:50it was necessary then
00:50:51to have fought
00:50:52I become then
00:50:54a fervent
00:50:55supporter
00:50:56of the combat bundles
00:50:57what a species in Vittorio Veneto
00:50:58I try to help
00:50:59my brother
00:51:00became a squad member
00:51:02participate
00:51:02to punitive expeditions
00:51:03in Treviso
00:51:04Fordenone
00:51:05etc.
00:51:05Therefore
00:51:07Franco's brother
00:51:08Aldo
00:51:09he does
00:51:09was part of
00:51:10of the squads
00:51:11fascists
00:51:12who acted
00:51:12even outside the province
00:51:14and Peonis
00:51:15it's in the province
00:51:15from Udine
00:51:16especially in the years
00:51:17winds
00:51:18it was standard practice
00:51:19common
00:51:20solve the problem
00:51:21with a lesson
00:51:23she was touched
00:51:25to several
00:51:26also in Veneto
00:51:28then a truncheon blow
00:51:30era
00:51:30it was normal
00:51:32I don't know
00:51:33I remember
00:51:34by Amendola
00:51:35right in the 25th
00:51:36which had been
00:51:37beaten
00:51:38in Tuscany
00:51:39he had succeeded
00:51:40to go
00:51:41in France
00:51:42but then he died
00:51:43as a consequence
00:51:44of the beatings
00:51:46Therefore
00:51:46this possibility
00:51:48there is
00:51:48I'm just saying
00:51:50This
00:51:50that the hypothesis
00:51:52of a lesson
00:51:53given in a bottle
00:51:55it is absolutely
00:51:56valid
00:51:57because there were
00:51:58all the elements
00:51:59to give it
00:52:00a lesson
00:52:02possible consequence
00:52:03of the altercation
00:52:04between Ottavio Bottecchia
00:52:05and Franco Marinotti
00:52:06after the investment
00:52:07mortal of John
00:52:08they had testified to me
00:52:11That
00:52:13John Bottecchia
00:52:15it had been
00:52:17removed
00:52:18from the grave
00:52:20from whom
00:52:21Caterina Zambon
00:52:23he had said
00:52:25sworn
00:52:25That
00:52:26When
00:52:27he was dying
00:52:28she
00:52:28they had to
00:52:30to take away
00:52:32the cause
00:52:33which brought
00:52:34to death
00:52:34Therefore
00:52:35John Bottecchia
00:52:37out of the tomb
00:52:39and in his place
00:52:40she came in
00:52:42breast
00:52:42she
00:52:43Not
00:52:43and then
00:52:46ambush
00:52:47for family reasons
00:52:48or illness
00:52:48everything holds together
00:52:50on oral testimonies
00:52:51brought back in time
00:52:52one hundred years
00:52:53they seem like a thousand
00:52:54without decisive documents
00:52:56to prove
00:52:57a thesis
00:52:58or the other
00:53:04Umberto Hill
00:53:05and Peonis
00:53:06they are looking for
00:53:07slowly slowly
00:53:07to find each other again
00:53:08in memory
00:53:09by Ottavio Bottecchia
00:53:11this is the millstone
00:53:13of the country
00:53:13of the years
00:53:1419th century
00:53:16Where
00:53:16the family
00:53:17the dad
00:53:18and the grandfather
00:53:19by Octavius
00:53:20they still have
00:53:20passed through
00:53:21for questions
00:53:22professional
00:53:22why here
00:53:23was forged
00:53:23the iron
00:53:24they worked here
00:53:25and they
00:53:26in the period
00:53:26in which they did
00:53:27the carters
00:53:28they came here
00:53:29own
00:53:29to define
00:53:31those who could
00:53:31be the tools
00:53:32of work
00:53:33and then here it is
00:53:34That
00:53:34when we are there
00:53:36asked
00:53:36how can we
00:53:38give
00:53:39with dignity
00:53:40I remember
00:53:41to a great hero
00:53:42we thought
00:53:43let's bring it back here
00:53:44let's bring it back
00:53:45where probably
00:53:46it all began
00:53:47where it all began
00:53:48and we liked it
00:53:49this idea so
00:53:51romantic
00:53:52and different
00:53:52Like this
00:53:53out of time
00:53:54after all
00:53:55Octavius was
00:53:56a man
00:53:57who lived
00:53:58intensely
00:53:59albeit briefly
00:54:00the years
00:54:02difficult
00:54:02of an Italy
00:54:03which has however
00:54:04also seen
00:54:05a great war
00:54:06where he
00:54:06he participated in it
00:54:08and it was also
00:54:09taught
00:54:09of a medal
00:54:10bronze
00:54:10to military valor
00:54:11and to him
00:54:12we have dedicated
00:54:12a space
00:54:13in the museum
00:54:14for the sharpshooters
00:54:15to him and his brother
00:54:16who were very close
00:54:17when they were in a museum
00:54:18in the early 90s
00:54:20also seen
00:54:22the setup
00:54:23which was taking place
00:54:24and among other things
00:54:25the beginning of the museum
00:54:27was
00:54:27in Casa Gaia
00:54:28which is a palace
00:54:28medieval
00:54:29of 1300
00:54:30the family
00:54:32the daughter
00:54:33in particular
00:54:34seen precisely
00:54:35That
00:54:35attention
00:54:37that we were giving
00:54:37Also
00:54:38not only
00:54:39to the books
00:54:40to the bicycles
00:54:41etc.
00:54:42he thought well
00:54:43to give us
00:54:45the bicycle
00:54:45precisely
00:54:46from the track
00:54:46by Ottavio Batecchia
00:54:48and it's a bike
00:54:49that now
00:54:50will leave you
00:54:51for a while
00:54:52Yes
00:54:52why did he call me
00:54:53a lawyer
00:54:54from Trieste
00:54:55asking if it was possible
00:54:57to be able to carry it
00:54:58then in France
00:54:59on the occasion
00:55:00of the Tour de France
00:55:01and so now
00:55:02I am waiting
00:55:02the contract
00:55:03that they will send me
00:55:04from France
00:55:08what you see
00:55:10behind my back
00:55:10it's the mural
00:55:11that as an administration
00:55:13municipal
00:55:13we have
00:55:14we wanted
00:55:14to dedicate
00:55:15in memory
00:55:16and in honor
00:55:17of memory
00:55:17of the great champion
00:55:19Octavio Bottecchia
00:55:20we have entrusted
00:55:21the assignment
00:55:22to an expert
00:55:23artist
00:55:24who is Roberto
00:55:24Obi Candotti
00:55:25a young man
00:55:27from Tolmezzo
00:55:28which he made
00:55:28for us
00:55:29this work
00:55:29hope
00:55:30is that this
00:55:32like the future museum
00:55:33like the house
00:55:34like the place
00:55:36at which
00:55:37he is buried
00:55:37can be connected
00:55:39on a tour
00:55:40where people
00:55:41they come
00:55:42passing by
00:55:43they remember
00:55:45and they live
00:55:46of its history
00:55:47it comes to mind
00:55:48a twinning
00:55:49that unites
00:55:50the two countries
00:55:51an invisible thread
00:55:52that binds
00:55:53Veneto
00:55:53and Friuli
00:55:54the lands
00:55:55the roots
00:55:56by Ottavio Bottecchia
00:55:57and his
00:55:58last pedal stroke
00:55:59on Bottecchia
00:55:59they were made
00:56:00three publications
00:56:01and various books
00:56:03so by eye
00:56:04about forty
00:56:06personages
00:56:06as
00:56:07Girardengo
00:56:08Binda
00:56:08War
00:56:09who won
00:56:10much more
00:56:11by Bottecchia
00:56:12they have
00:56:12yes and no
00:56:13in three
00:56:14they are about twenty
00:56:15of books
00:56:15and publications
00:56:16this means
00:56:17that the character
00:56:18as they say in slang
00:56:20he broke the screen
00:56:22that is, he took
00:56:23they are those characters
00:56:24That
00:56:24the last one
00:56:25it's Marco Pantani
00:56:27that go
00:56:27beyond
00:56:28of the sporting fact
00:56:29I'm from the heroes
00:56:31from the invincibles
00:56:48the bike with his name
00:56:50on the frame
00:56:51Octavio Bottecchia
00:56:52will win the Giro d'Italia
00:56:54in 1957
00:56:55with Gaston
00:56:57Nencini
00:56:57that of 66
00:56:59with Gianni Motta
00:57:00and 13 years later
00:57:01the one in 1979
00:57:03with Giuseppe Saronni
00:57:05even the last green jersey
00:57:07which symbol
00:57:08of the climbers
00:57:09per lap
00:57:09of 2011
00:57:10that of Stefano Garzelli
00:57:12it is branded like this
00:57:13Bottecchia
00:57:14and then
00:57:15above all
00:57:16the Tour de France
00:57:16of 1989
00:57:18that decided
00:57:19for only
00:57:20eight seconds
00:57:21in the final time trial
00:57:22with Greg Lemon
00:57:23in yellow
00:57:24in Paris
00:57:25in front of
00:57:25to Laurent Fignon
00:57:33in the collective imagination
00:57:35the American
00:57:36another folk hero
00:57:37another underdog
00:57:39outside the box
00:57:40and predictions
00:57:41the champion
00:57:42that you don't expect
00:57:43another
00:57:43Octavio Bottecchia
00:57:45Bottecchia
00:57:46a strong man
00:57:47bold
00:57:48serious
00:57:48brave
00:57:49and lonely
00:57:50a crystallized myth
00:57:52as well as epic feats
00:57:54out of time
00:57:55even from that disappearance
00:57:57whose mystery
00:57:58it intrigues you
00:57:59involves
00:58:00overwhelms
00:58:00for almost a hundred years
00:58:15in a person's life
00:58:16there are feelings
00:58:18that coexist
00:58:19inexplicably
00:58:20if you don't take it into account
00:58:22that one strengthens
00:58:23the other
00:58:23so it was
00:58:25for the grandfather
00:58:26Grandma Catina
00:58:27Alfonso Piccina
00:58:28Henri Pellissier
00:58:29this first feeling
00:58:32it's love and hate
00:58:33on Henri Pellissier
00:58:35Grandma Caterina
00:58:36he often told me
00:58:37that the grandfather
00:58:38Octavius
00:58:39he repeated to her
00:58:40you can't save yourself
00:58:41how hard it is
00:58:43the hard one
00:58:44they are
00:58:44Pellissier
00:58:45he did everything to me
00:58:47but me
00:58:48that I made clear
00:58:49that doesn't work
00:58:50so with me
00:58:51and grandmother Caterina
00:58:52he said
00:58:53Yes
00:58:53it looks like sogo
00:58:55of the team
00:58:55the Hackinson
00:58:56but you know
00:58:57Octavius
00:58:58that when the grandfather
00:58:59he said
00:59:00I'm going
00:59:01no one who was in front
00:59:07about brother Giovanni
00:59:09Instead
00:59:09Catina's words
00:59:11they were alone
00:59:11he never talks
00:59:12John
00:59:13I can't say why
00:59:15but
00:59:16Surely
00:59:17there was a reason
00:59:18while for
00:59:19the first feeling
00:59:21after death
00:59:22by John
00:59:23the grandfather
00:59:24he was like a nobody
00:59:25for the loss
00:59:26of who was always there for him
00:59:27been close
00:59:28at his side
00:59:29without John
00:59:30he said
00:59:31I feel alone
00:59:32then for Alfonso
00:59:33the Picin
00:59:34the same thing
00:59:35without him
00:59:36I feel dead
00:59:37I feel alone
00:59:38and then
00:59:39he had thought
00:59:40to ride a motorcycle
00:59:41but it has always been
00:59:42a wrong thing
00:59:43the one he heard
00:59:49dear grandfather
00:59:50Sin
00:59:51for how
00:59:51and when
00:59:52but I wasn't there
00:59:53and I can't
00:59:54Today
00:59:55what can I tell you this?
00:59:56the weather
00:59:57he opened
00:59:58the door
00:59:58of my heart
00:59:59filling
01:00:00of a sensation
01:00:01very welcome
01:00:02that which your enterprises
01:00:04and your lifestyle
01:00:05they made me
01:00:07silent accomplice
01:00:08of you
01:00:11thank you all
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