Friday, 2 April 2021
The distinctive bright pink pages have become familiar across the world and since it first appeared in news kiosks 125 years ago this week,
Gazzetta dello Sport has become an institution.
The paper has acclaimed Olympic champions, World Cup victories and defeats but also has also exposed sporting scandal and witnessed tragedy. It has even devoted a front page to the passing of a Pope.
It is said to be the most-read in Italy, either in print or online, which would have astonished founders Eugenio Camillo Costamagna and Eliso Rivera in 1896.
It came about as the result of a merger between the Milanese