Fifteen years after Marco Pantani attacked on the Galibier (pictured) to set up his 1998 Tour de France victory, the Giro d'Italia pays tribute with a summit finish on the Galibier. (Image credit ...

He stopped the clock at 39:58, three and a half minutes faster than how Marco Pantani climbed in 1998 (43:28). In 2007, Alberto Contador did it in 44:08.

Friday February 14, St Valentine's Day marks a decade since Marco Pantani - one of cycling’s most flamboyant characters, was found dead in a Rimini hotel room. His fantastic successes at a time ...

We recall Marco Pantani’s Top 10 Moments… Richard Pestes I first saw Marco Pantani emerge at the 1994 Giro d’Italia. I had never heard of him, but there he was on a break in the first big climbing day ...

14 Feb 2004. Marco Pantani dies alone in Rimini. In a motel, after three days spent in a small room without seeing anybody. Pantani was still a Pro rider.

Tearful family and fans have bid farewell to Marco Pantani amid claims that the Italian cycling hero had been using cocaine as well as anti-depressants.

Marco Pantani's name is synonymous with cycling brilliance and moral compromise, but who should shoulder the blame for his early death? Jonny Cooper talks to the director of 'Pantani: The ...

Today's EFM briefs include the launch of a Marco Pantani movie and a Middle East deal for a TIFF doc.

Italian prosecutors have reopened an investigation into the death of cyclist Marco Pantani after his family presented evidence contending the former Tour de France winner was murdered.

Marco Pantani was the Lance Armstrong of his day. In 1998 he won both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, a feat that nobody has matched since. Six years later, he was found dead in a ...