Pezcyclingnews: Lombardia’15: The Pez Preview!

Race Preview: It can’t be the end of the season already! The Giro di Lombardia seems to come round faster every year. ‘The Classic of the Falling Leaves’ is this Sunday and our Lombardy expert, Ed Hood, has a good look at the history, course and who he thinks is not too tired to win the last Monument of the season.Lombardy? It cant be – it just seems like last week we were at Het Nieuwsblad? But its true, all the Grand Tours have all come and gone, the Worlds is won and lost and the leaves have begun to turn and even fall. . .Best get to work, then. . .STATISTICA:This will be edition 109 of the Classic of the Falling Leaves with Giovanni Gerbi winning the first edition in 1905, no editions were lost to the First World War but there was no race in 1943 or 1944 as World War Two raged in Italy.Recordman is il Campionissimo, the late, great Fausto Coppi on five wins but it was almost six; in 1956 it took the finishing speed of the fastest sprinter of the time, Frances Andre Darrigade to deny a Champion whose Golden Time was coming to an end. Coppi was also third on two occasions with four of his wins coming in straight years 1946 to 1949.No not ‘Purito’ but Fausto Coppi and Gino BartaliThe home nation has won the race on 67 occasions with the most recent being Damiano Cunego who scored his third and...

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