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birthday with melancholy, these 140 years of glory



Mark Taron

was a damn cold night, because people say that the winters are the stuff of our times do not tell the right, or has lost his memory. It was snowing, that
17 January 1871, and intensively.
But that handful of men did not want to miss the classroom of the Technical School in San Domenico. They were there because they loved the sport, and believe in the value of its message, especially to educate the new generations.
They could not even imagine being there to write the story. Or maybe somehow we were hoping for. There were seven, those pioneers. Led them Emilio Baumann, a father of the Italian gymnastics. That evening, founded the Society Sectional Gymnastics. That would become legendary Virtus.
140 years have passed since then. The Sef Virtus has a long history of sport blue. He has lined up major talent, Olympic medals, world, European, a harvest of Italian titles. He has trained thousands of young persons into the sport. And even those who have not become champions will move on, forever, the pride of being virtussini.
The first were, in fact, gymnasts and wrestlers. Some of them entered the popular imagination, often performing in sports arenas but also in the streets, at festivals, in theaters. Colossi as Achilles Mountain (nomen omen), Emilio Benfenati, or the legendary "Stiancon" (what, according to the dialect, "splits - is" really all) of the century Riccardo Giovannini. In the First World War emerged one of the greatest talents of Italian sport, quell'Adolfo Contoli  representing the "twin" of our national American Indian Jim Thorpe, because he excelled in the same discipline, the decathlon, and because it was a phenomenon that would address any specialty. Someone like him, who had fought in Kobarid, could not be afraid of anything. He played football and had a future. But then veered on the athlete, competing in all disciplines, to the point be collected at the end of something like 24 career national title, all won with a strictly black V on breast.
In wrestling, meanwhile, depopulated Renato Gardini, world champion in 1915, before going to seek his fortune in America. But still nice to have athletic Virtus second sports club in Bologna for the foundation (before her only the Shooting Bologna, founded in 1862) unbelievable experiences. In 1932, in Berlin, in the Olympic final of the 80 obstacles, there were even two stars born in Bologna on the slopes, both in a position to make the big shot. What could Trabzon Valla, for all Ondina, who became the first Italian athlete to win a gold medal the Olympics, while Claudia Testoni  off the podium and finished fourth at the photo finish. Sixteen years and a world war later, it fell to Giuseppe "Pino" Dordoni  dominated by entering the stadium in Helsinki, winning Olympic gold in 50 km. running. And the gold in five circles also won the Adolph and Joseph Tunesi Domenichelli gymnastics team: the first in 1912, in Antwerp, the second again in Berlin in 1936.
In tennis, world class pure led up the colors of black V. By Vanni Canepele to those of the golden years, and Orlando Sirola Beppe Merlo. The first came from the River, was almost seven feet tall and in his career won 11 Italian titles, in addition to training with Nicola Pietrangeli il doppio più vincente del tennis azzurro, con il, successo del Roland Garros nel ‘59 e la finale diWimbledon del ‘56 come fiori all’occhiello. Il secondo, portato a Bologna dal presidentissimo Giorgio Neri, fu quattro volte tricolore e due volte senifinalista agli internazionali di Francia.
La Virtus è fascino, passione, storia ed emozione. È la pallacanestro che in città ha viaggiato tra Santa Lucia, la prima casa, Sala Borsa, PalaDozza e PalaMalaguti, che oggi guarda al terzo millennio da Futurshow Station.
Che ha scritto anche la storia dei canestri, regalandole nomi leggendari. La Sef Virtus è un’idea che piaceva persino a Giuseppe Garibaldi, che lo scrisse in una lettera ai suoi executives ("I am one of your '). The Sef Virtus is an ideal that lives in black and white in a world of color projected into the future under the guidance of Cesare Mattei, the current president. He has a future ahead, and 140 years of history to brag about. The Information

of Bologna, January 17, 2011