Marco Pantani's final journey - Remembering il Pirata 20 years after his tragic death By Stephen Farrand last updated 14 February 2024 A look back at the tragedy and emotion of the Italian's death ...

With the circumstances surrounding Marco Pantani’s death still coming to light, it might be easy to focus on the latter years of his life which were marred by controversy, drug allegations and ...

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Marco Pantani's maverick life ended in a mysterious death. Nearly 20 years on, the questions and investigations continue amid claims that powerful criminals wanted Italy's star cyclist dead.

Under an appropriately leaden grey sky, the body of the fallen cycling hero Marco Pantani was finally laid to rest yesterday in the cemetery of his home town of Cesenatico, Italy.

Pantani was known as Il Pirata for his swashbuckling style of racing and the colourful bandanna he wore to cover his shaven head.

Marco 'Il Pirata' Pantani was the bald guy with a bandana whose thrilling facility for climbing brought drama to a sport that had been getting old.

The 32-year-old Pantani, known as Il Pirata (The Pirate), was thrown out of the 1999 Tour while wearing the leader's pink jersey after giving a blood hermatocrite reading above 50 percent.

However, after a number of surgeries, five months on crutches and a great deal of physical therapy, the resilient Pantani recovered. 1997 was a year that showed Pantani would not only walk again, but ...