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 ...

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 ...

Gino Bartali won Italy's prestigious Giro d'Italia three times between 1936 and 1946, and the Tour de France twice. But he also had a secret.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Gino Bartali had already won the Tour de France once and the Giro d’Italia twice when he started taking the most dramatic bicycle rides of his life.

The Italian cyclist Gino Bartali could rightfully be called "the GOAT" -- the Greatest of All Time -- for his athletic achievements alone. But in this episode, we tip our hats to him as a ...

Gino Bartali, the great Italian rider of the 30s, 40s, and 50s, would be a legend if it were just for his exploits on the bike. But his career spanned tragedy and triumph for Italy as a whole and ...

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.

By 1943, Italy was in chaos. For even a well-known sporting hero such as Gino Bartali, his public profile was no guarantee of his safety. Yet Bartali chose an even more risky course of action, as ...

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 ...

Bartali has a long list of success - he won the Tour de France twice, in 1938 and in 1948, and the Giro d'Italia three times in 1936, 1937 and 1946. Because of the war, he holds the records for ...