Cycling, Magrini (Eurosport) interviews Sarri and makes him cry: “His heart beats for the bicycle”
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You won’t see anything more beautiful in these days of waiting before the start of the Tour de France. For Eurosport and his column “Freewheeling”, Riccardo Magrinithe technical voice of the satellite channel cycling that will broadcast all the Tours from the first to the last km, he interviewed Maurice Sarri. Also making him move, and very much, when during the chat the Lazio coach spoke of his idol Francis Moser. Sarri, son of runner, Amerigo, and runner in turn before embarking on a career as a footballer, said after Ganna’s hour record: “Pippo has established an incredible record, but to get news I had to go to specialized sites” . And then, once again: “Football is a game, cycling is a sport”. Magrini sent him a message, Sarri didn’t answer but called him right away. The two met at the technician’s house. And the “Skinny” still has the shivers. “A wonderful conversation between two people who deeply love cycling. Maurizio watches the races, watches them all live or recorded and gets angry if someone spoils the result. Cycling is a family story for him: his father used to race in Nencini’s time and he himself won three races as a boy”.
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It seemed like liberated. As if to say: finally someone is interviewing me about cycling.
“True, and even if he is a football genius, and he really revolutionized it, his heart beats for the bicycle. I even offered him to come with us on the commentary sometime. It really was the interview he dreamed of doing”.
The Tour begins on Saturday and your live streams begin. How do you keep the audience captivated for so many hours, waiting for something that maybe will happen and maybe not?
“With the story, with the rhythm, with the anecdotes, with the ability to dialogue that we have in the commentary booth. Wladimir Belli and Moreno Moser will take turns with Luca Gregorio and me. And after the race we will host ex-racers such as Paolo Bettini, Andrea Tafi, Gianni Bugno. I remember the Campo Imperatore stage, at the last Giro: a day of nothing, but also the best commentary ever made in my now discreet career as a technical commentator. Already longer than my racing career”.
By the way: forty years ago, in the 1983 Tour, you won the Nantes-Ile d’Oléron, the seventh stage.
“What a day, that. I had started it as usual, doing a show at the start with the other riders, a few jokes of mine. And then I invented a finisseur action in the last km. And I won. I was not a champion, on that Tour with the Metauro Mobili-Pinarello I was gregarious of Lucien Van Impe. We had roughly the same size of bike and he asked me to stay close to him. But I sniffed the air and finally landed the blow. I had already won the Montefiascone stage in the Giro, but the one in the Tour was something different. In the team they told me that I could even go home at that point, maybe they were joking. And instead I took them at their word, three days later”.
