Going into the final weekend of the 2016 Giro d'Italia, nobody thought Vincenzo Nibali had a chance of winning the pink jersey, but a last ditch attack gave him his second overall victory in the race. In this cover feature from the May 2017 edition of Procycling magazine, the 'Shark of Messina' explains why he has high hopes of joining the greats with a third title this year.
Winning this year's Giro d’Italia would put Vincenzo Nibali in an elite group of just eight riders who have won the Corsa Rosa three times. His name would also go down in the records as the winner of the 100th edition of the race, cementing his status as the best Italian rider of his generation.
Yet the fame, attention and records mean little to Nibali. He is on a far more personal journey. He moved to Tuscany from his native Sicily when he was just 16, to follow his ambitions, convinced of his talent and driven by his inner, very personal, determination.
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"I don't think I need to prove anything to anybody else except myself," Nibali tells Procycling during an exclusive interview that reveals a more human and more intimate side to the diffident, almost prickly Nibali we see during races.
"I know where I've come from. I know my past. It was hard to move from Sicily to Tuscany but it was what I really wanted in life. By becoming a cyclist I found my road in life," he says.
"Now I enjoy driving a Porsche thanks to having won the Giro and Tour but it feels as normal to me as catching a bus. It's nothing special because I haven't forgotten when I used catch the bus to school in Empoli, then go training in the afternoon and be far from my family and friends. I haven't forgotten where I've come from."
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