“The turn is like an opera by Verdi, with a lot of choirs and sometimes a little mamarrachoesca”
«Of course, the ones I like the most is the turn, because it seems to me where you can get more cartoons Of these that I like a lot, halfway between the heroic and the funny. The Great Guiñol and all these things, ”he says Marcos Pereda, who has written “The Giro of Italy”, with the subtitle “Bikes, stories and disappointments of the race that forged the myths”, A book that is included within the trilogy published by the Editorial Books of the Route over the three greats.
«The turn has that point at times like semi -siege, at times very eloquent. I have ever written that The turn is like an opera, but it is not like a Wagner opera, it is like an opera of Verdi, of these that have a lot of choirs are a bit mamarrachales And you don’t know if it’s Verdi or John Williams with “The Galaxies War.” And I like all that, I like the color, I like spring, I like how Italians ride it, how they respect their own history, but without being very serious with it, ”explains the author.
“Those Telecinco turns were like putting Berlusconi, the Mamachicho, Cocoa Maravillao with Miguel Indurain”
A career that for those of his generation, those born in the early 80s, refers to those turns offered by Telecinco, who have some baptismal ceremony. «I am from 81 and the five -year -old people for more or five years old or 10 years older or 10 years old have Mit as the turn because Indurain’s turns coincide and above all, Telecinco turns coincide. That was a boom at the advertising level and level of media overexposure. It was like putting Berlusconi, the Mamachicho, Cocoa Maravillao, Jj Santos, who had no fucking idea of what a bike is, Jaime Ugarte, yes, and then Miguel Indurain. That landing in The most spiritive and most novel and more cocainet and more shameless toucket attached to the bikes, I think it does a very special thing. In fact, I still believe that anyone between 55 and 35 is told about the compressor and everyone knows what it is, ”says Pereda in reference to a legendary announcement that Berlusconi TV cast in the last kilometer of the stage. «The trio who did The complete unaware of the bikes that was JJ Santos, who still does not know how many wheels a bike has, Jaime Ugartethat it is a crashing of this sport and that also has a spectacular memory, and then it was Osvaldo Menéndez, that every phrase that braided was thought to be the beginning of “one hundred years of loneliness” And you didn’t know where I was going out, ”Marcos recalls.
“The landing of the turning in the most spiritive and most novelty and more cocainomaniac and more shameless bikes linked to the bikes, I think it does a very special thing”
The turn is different, although not so much. «The turn was run by a team that sponsored the Vatican and that had a jersey that would have 75,000 sponsors. All of that you can not imagine in other races and I believe that in a deliberate way the turn not only consent but sometimes it seems that it promotes it. I also tell you that in recent years we all talk the same, we all dress the same, we all eat the same hamburgers and have the same coffee. And when I think that has happened to him a little, ”Marcos Pereda analyzes«In recent years it has mimicized with the rest of the races. Everything that made him different is still there, but I believe that a more attenuated tad. Although he still has a bit of Don Camilo’s books and Peppone, of course he has left, because that is also the same essence of Italy, ”he says. “In Italy when you go out of Rome, Milan, from Turin and such and you go through the villages you realize that Italy is another, that Italy really has a lot of variety and many differences between some places and others and continues to maintain that idiosyncrasy that obviously in the center of Rome you will no longer see it because the center of Rome is the same as the center of all cities, except the language and monuments,” says Marcos.
«But you go outside and see a very particular idiosyncrasy, which I think is the one that It is perceived in the turn, that point a bit exaggerated, that slightly sorrentino point, where everything smells of Fellopa, but there is no obvious Fellopa. Where people wear a jacket that is a more song little point than it should bebut as everyone goes like this, it is not that you go unnoticed but that you mimic. And I love all that because it allows me to play comics when there are not many things about the bike to tell. Look that the turn brings you things from the bike to tell. Good and bad, but although there are no, you get the Camilo, you speak what I know, of Coppi, of Bartali, and you have one thing of the most paint, ”recognizes the author. Stories of this Gjro will remain for future writers, such as the blessing of the Pope to the platoon in the Vatican. A story that could have had its place in “The Tour of Italy” under the gaze of Marcos Pereda.