CESENATICO, Italy --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. Only those close to the ...

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.

Italian racer Marco Pantani's impressive rise and sad fall is re-examined in "Pantani: The Death of a Cyclist," an incisive documentary about determination and the consequences of being a driven ...

The world of cycling was unanimous on Sunday in agreeing that fallen Italian cycling hero Marco Pantani, who was found dead in a hotel room in Rimini late on Saturday (local time), had been let ...

Winner of both the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France in 1998, road-racing Pantani was for a time Italy’s Most Beloved, although his was a career ultimately bedevilled by doping allegations.