26Jul 24
Pogacar’s pink and yellow jerseys: Ghisallo Museum scores a double
The Ghisallo Museum also does the Giro-Tour “double”. Pink jersey and yellow jersey but not just any jerseys, on the contrary: those conquered in recent months by Tadej Pogačarwinner of the Rosa at the Giro d’Italia and winner a few days ago of the Gialla at the Tour de France. For the Museum dreamed and desired many years ago by Florence Magni is the most beautiful gift of this season of cycling emotions, an important recognition that enriches a collection already rich in great names. The Slovenian champion thought of the Magreglio Museum and on Tuesday 30 July the “pink” and the “yellow”, rigorously autographed, symbol of two victories that made him enter the history of cycling, will arrive with an official delegation from Colnago. «We are very happy and if our collection could speak it would use magnificent words – explains the president of the Museum Foundation of the Cycling Madonna of Ghisallo Antonio Molteni– it is the first time that we celebrate the arrival of the jerseys that represent this historic double thanks to Tadej Pogacar who has definitively entered the history of records typical only of the greatest champions». Yellow jersey that is a bit like the icing on the cake for the Magreglio Museum that this year, precisely to the Tour, has dedicated «Ghisallo in Yellow» the great retrospective from the first edition in 1903, a tribute to the Foundation wanted to do for this extraordinary departure of the Tour de France from Italy with documents, memorabilia and a series of historic bicycles representing iconic brands of bicycle manufacturers, from the first teams to participate in the Tour to those of today. “We are thinking of setting up a collection of Tour de France jerseys, similar to that of the Giro d’Italia with the pink jerseys – explains Carola Gentilini, director of the museum – and, perhaps, also a new collection of blue jerseys that celebrate the successes of the champions who run carrying the Italian colors around. In short, the Museum dresses itself in the colors of the most important jerseys and this news of the arrival of the two Pogacar jerseys fills us with pride and enthusiasm for a Museum that continues to make fans of the cycling of today and yesterday”.