It has now become a tradition that during the Night of the Oscars, a special recognition is awarded to a media representative who loves cycling and actively promotes it. The award is dedicated to Lucia and Pietro Rodella, the founders of a family that has become a symbol of cycling storytelling through images. Silvano and Silvana Rodella, with their children Fabio and Paolo and the new generation rising, wanted to honor Il Giornale's director Alessandro Sallusti this year.

"You are too kind to call me competent," began director Sallusti, "in reality, as a young man, I was a great journalism enthusiast and wondered why all the greatest journalists had given their best by telling the story of cycling, especially the Giro d'Italia. Montanelli's most beautiful piece was written on the roads of the Giro. That day he was on Coppi's support car, and Fausto attacked in the mountains, putting Bartali to the test. Montanelli recounts having seen for the first time in his life a man, Coppi's sports director, crying for two different reasons: his right eye was crying with emotion witnessing his protégé's feat, while his left eye was crying because he had understood that this was the beginning of the downward parabola of a great champion like Bartali. And there I found the answer to my question about why great journalists have given their best telling cycling stories: because around the bicycle, there is an entire world, your world, a world of values, and that's what makes the difference. A world that, I can assure you, does not exist anywhere else."