Capo d’Orlando, the sculpture dedicated to the road cycling world championship was defaced

The silhouette of the cyclist disappears from the sculpture dedicated to the road cycling world championship and the city wonders about the reasons for the disfigurement. From the sculpture located on the seafront Andrea Doria where in 1994 there was the start of that world championship which saw hundreds of cyclists from all over the world competing for the women’s and men’s amateur titles in the city, other parts have also disappeared. Vandalism or what else? In these hours the artist who created it Nino Agliolo, who returned to Capo d’Orlando from northern Italy where he lives, launched a heartfelt appeal complete with an SOS placed right on the sculpture “We hope that the stolen pieces will be returned, he tells the Gazzetta del Sud, also because they were made of particular material. The polyethylene bike tube filled with thermal material which raised or lowered the cyclist’s shape based on the external temperature. At the top there was a stainless steel sphere to represent the cyclist’s head.”