Headline: Interview with Gianni Mura

In January 2012 we've been in the offices of newspaper "La Repubblica", Milan, to film a long interview with Gianni Mura.
Gianni Mura defines himself a "Suiveur", as in France was called the journalists who phisically "followed" the riders by car.
Since 1967, any given july he moves to France to follow the Tour de France, and from there he narrates of epic gestures, of defeats and great victories, of stories of life and death (from Simpson to Casartelli), of men and their "chansons de gestes".
Writing his articles with his Olivetti Lettera 32, Gianni Mura has created his own, unique style, and he helps us to define and to describe cycling as a matter of passion, of human stories and sentiments.




"Let's imagine a man who falls head over heels for a girl, she is the great love of his life, they get married and after a while he discovers that she is a terrible bitch. In that moment he is very sad, but this doesn't erase what happened before, and I it the
same for cycling".

Emotions can't be deleted. The emotions that Pantani gave us, that emotions I told day by day, were absolutely normal, I would say logical.
If a cyclist passes all the doping tests, for me he is regular. We are not judges, we are not doctors, we are not chemists, we are not analysts. We're journalists, so we can try not to be "Alice in Wonderland", as we know how the world works, but we can not make rash judgments."

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