Bartali risked his own life during the Holocaust to rescue as many as 800 Italian Jews from the Nazis. “He smuggled documents in the frame of his bike, thinking that if he would be stopped by the ...

During World War II, Gino Bartali used his position as a famous road cycling champion to support the Italian Resistance and help, with others, to save the lives of more than 800 Italian Jews.

Italian Andrea Bartali son of champion cyclist Gino Bartali, visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, after a ceremony to induct Bartali ...

Gino Bartali was one of cycling's greatest champions, but it is what he did when the sport stopped which endures.

Miles Teller to star as Gino Bartali, the cycling champ who helped save Jews during WWII The cyclist won the Tour de France in 1938, helped the Italian resistance during the war, and then was ...

Gino Bartali, an Italian cyclist and hero to dozens of Jewish people, is being honored with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 104th birthday. Bartali died in 2000 but left a legacy.

It must have been great fun to root for Gino Bartali. Bartali was a fellow who started riding his father's bicycle when he was so small that he couldn't reach the pedals.

If you've got just under $100,000 US, you can own an amazing piece of cycling history with a bike built for and raced by Italian legend Gino Bartali, three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia, twice ...

Andrea Bartali, the son of the late Italian champion cyclist Gino Bartali, speaks during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on October 10, 2013. (photo credit ...