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La 21ème Charly Gaul – Septembre 5, 2010 - Echternach

official presentation:

On Thursday, January 14th was held the official presentation of "La 21ème Charly Gaul" (scheduled on Septembre 5, 2010) and of the 5th "Gran Fondo Charly Gaul Trento Monte Bondone" (scheduled on August 8, 2010), in presence of the representatives of the Tourist office of the Trento region and several invited guests, among them double Giro d’Italia overall winner Gilberto Simoni.

The master of the ceremony and president of the ACC Contern, Mr. Marcel Gilles, started the presentation with a thank you to the Tourist office of the Trento region, underlining the good collaboration between them and the ACC Contern for the promotion of two different events that have the same and common goal: to honour the name of Charly Gaul and to remind his performances with a living monument. After that, he presented some of the invited guests to the public, beginning with Gilberto Simoni, one of the greatest fan of “the angel of the mountains”.
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Simoni said that he would like to have some of Charly Gaul’s climbing legs in the upcoming month of May, when he will line up with his new team Lampre for the last Giro of his career. Despite his 38 years, he wants to shine once again in his beloved race. “Gibo” had brought with him another native of the Trento region, former professional rider Mariano Piccolo who, like his friend, had heard of the story of Charly Gaul’s legendary win on the slopes of the Monte Bondone in the Giro 1956, a story that the Bondonieri, the inhabitants of the Monte Bondone, love mention again and again. Mariano Piccolo was a rider of Grand Tours and, even though he isn’t as popular as Simoni, it took Marcel Gilles several minutes to list his biggest wins during a very long career, among them two stage wins and two overall wins of the King of the Mountains competition in the Giro or three stage wins in the Vuelta. Just like Simoni, the consultant of the RAI television never tires to travel through Europe in order to promote his beautiful region of Trento. More riders were present in the Coque sports centre like Ed Carier, the winner of the very first Charly Gaul cyclosport-race, like Pascal Triebel and Claude Degano, the two friends who promised to travel to Trento during the month of August to represent Luxemburg in the Gran Fondo Charly Gaul, like Jempy Drucker, the newly crowned Luxemburg national cyclo-cross champion or
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Peter Lorkowski, who participated in the Beijing Paralympics in 2008 as a member of the ACC Contern. Marcel Gilles also thanked the family of Charly Gaul, the municipality of Echternach, the Police, the Sports minister and several other persons that were helpful to the ACC Contern in general and the La Charly Gaul event in particular during the last years.

Time for a little bit of history and, as usual in the last years, we took a little look back to what happened 50 years ago in the past and learned that in 1960, Charly Gaul was Luxemburg national champion on the road, that he won the climbing race in Sallanches and a stage of the Tour of Italy. He was also third overall in the Giro and 7th in the road-race at the world championships. click here to see the complete palmares of Charly. The first victory in the event belonged to Edy Carier, whereas the first winner of the B-race was called Ferdy Reuland. Mister Yves Lehnert and Mister Nico Thoma, have participated in all the 20 editions without exception and Sione
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Jongstra, the Dutch triathlet is the only one to have won three times. Other famous names in the palmares include Petr Hric, Bjarne Riis or Kim Kirchen. click here to see all the winners of the cyclosport-race « La Charly Gaul ». Marcel Gilles related also that the first edition of the race started in front of the Coque sports centrum, in the same place where today’s presentation was held, before moving to Niederanven, Steinsel, Luxembourg, Contern and finally Echternach.

After two short films concerning 2008 and 2009, the year 2010 was finally presented. Two dates have to be noted: August 8, 2010 for the Gran Fondo Charly Gaul in Trento - Monte Bondone and Sptembre 5, 2010 for La Charly Gaul. The 21st edition will take off once again on the beautiful market place in Echternach for two courses, one of around 100 and the other of about 150 kilometres. For more information, you can have a look at the following documents:

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These informations can of course still be subject for change and will be updated regularely on our internet site.
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The biggest change in the regulations concerns the fact that owners of a FSCL license will no longer be prohibited from participating in the B-race since several riders that took the first places in the last year had a foreign license. Concerning the course, it will be located more or less in the same regions than the two previous years, while we will try to do some changes in the final kilometres and find a more secure way to reach the centre of Echternach and in the opening kilometres, where several participants have asked us to put in a supplementary climb in order to split the peloton and make the position fights less dangerous. The actual courses will be worked during the following months in collaboration with the concerned local authorities as well as the police and will also be published in the internet.

After the Luxemburgish cyclosport-race, it was the turn for the Italian one to be presented. After the two promotion clips provided by the organizers, it was clear to the audience that it is a very big event waiting for them on August 8. The promoters of the race do not hesitate to put some money into their project and, in addition to its splendid courses through some wonderful landscapes, the event seems to be perfectly prepared.
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It is a fact that in only 5 years, the Gran Fondo has become one of the most attractive races in the Italian cyclosport calendar and the technical advisor Gilberto Simoni proudly announced that out of the roughly 150 Gran Fondo in Italy, the Charly Gaul Trento/Monte-Bondone has entered the Top 10 this year and that they expect more than 2000 participants. This is a unique occasion to combine a Top sports event with some cultural and gastronomic visits in one of Italy’s most beautiful regions.

For the people in Luxemburg, the travel agency Voyages Emile Weber has prepared a bus trip with some tourist activities as well as the (non-obligatory) participation in the Gran Fondo Charly Gaul.

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The evening ended with a recepteion and, while most of the guests visited the exhibition on Charly Gaul set up for the occasion by Mr. Henri Bressler, the never tiring Gilberto Simoni continued to respond to the questions of the press.

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more infos on the Gran Fondo Charly Gaul Trento / Monte Bondone on charlygaulgranfondo.it



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