1988 world road race champion on Wiggins, Italian cycling, and bicycle manufacture
roadcyclinguk.com, timothy john, 8 Augustus 2012
The seventh floor of an investment bank in the City of London is an unusual location to encounter a former world road race champion, but it’s at the wealth management headquarters of UBS that I come face-to-face with Maurizio Fondriest.
Instantly recognisable as the pro cyclist among a roomful of UBS employees, bicycle brand managers and journalists, Fondriest, still lean and tanned, tells his story in a language acquired rather than studied and in which his meaning, far from being lost in translation, is bolstered by facial expressions and gestures.
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