(Stephen Farrand article, found at Yahoo Cycling News)
<"Marco invites us to make a serious examination of our consciences, of everything that is sport and everything that is broken in sport," said Bishop Antonio Lanfranchi.
"The man is greater than his victories and defeats, the man is worth more than the cyclist...In the champion beats the heart of a boy...a heart that needs normality and cannot be sacrificed to exploitation," the local bishop said in his sermon.
