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.

The coroner's report into Marco Pantani's death has reached the conclusion that the 1998 Tour de France winner died of a cocaine overdose. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

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.

Pantani died on February 14, 2004, after barricading himself in a hotel room in Rimini under the effects of cocaine and anti-depressants. The winner of the 1998 Giro d'Italia and Tour de France ...

Pantani laid down one of his trademark attacks halfway up the steep, 14-mile climb to this posh ski resort. He slipped away from Armstrong and then reeled in a half-dozen attacking riders to win ...

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 ...

But I finished watching Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist and felt as if I hadn’t seen a traditional sports documentary at all, because the love of the sport didn’t come across to me ...

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 ...

The following feature concludes our ‘I love the 1990s’ series, as Stephen Farrand recalls Marco Pantani’s dramatic expulsion from the 1999 Giro d’Italia. It was the culmination of cycling ...