Giro 90: Bugno, or three weeks of madness in Italy (mention)

Cycling feature published on Velo 101 on 2 October 2013, about the 1990 Giro d’Italia and rider Gianni Bugno. The article is not about the Tomatis method: it mentions it in passing, by analogy. Only the relevant passage is reproduced here (translated from French).

Velo 101, 2 October 2013

Excerpt

Until recently regarded as an anxious, mentally fragile young man, Gianni Bugno […] had enlisted the help of the controversial Professor Conconi. […] In a little under a year, after turning to a music therapy that, to the layman, is not unlike the Tomatis method so dear to people with autism, a new Gianni Bugno was born. “The chrysalis became a butterfly”, wrote the indispensable narrator Pierre Chany at the time.

Note: the author draws a comparison (“not unlike”); he does not claim that Bugno followed the Tomatis method. The exact nature of the “music therapy” mentioned is not specified.

Read the full article on Velo 101

Source: “Giro 90 : Bugno ou trois semaines de folie dans la Botte”, Velo 101, 2 October 2013. © Velo 101. Excerpt quoted as part of a press review.