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	Marco Pantani
		Born in Cesenatico[?], Italy, in 1970, Marco Pantani is widely regarded as being the best climber in professional bicycle road racing of his generation with his high point being winning the Tour de France in 1998.
		Pantani returned to action in 1997, but was felled by a fl cat which ran out in front of him during the Giro d'Italia, ending his race.
		Things turned bad for Pantani towards the end of the 1999 Giro which he was well on the way to winning when he was thrown off the race (eventually won by Gilberto Simoni[?]) for a suspiciously high red blood cell count which suggested (although could not conclusively prove) use of the banned substance EPO.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Marco_Pantani.html (732 words)

	Marco Pantani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marco Pantani (January 13, 1970, Cesena – February 14, 2004, Rimini) was an Italian cyclist widely regarded as being one of the best climbers of all times in professional road bicycle racing.
		Pantani returned to action in the Giro in 1997, but was felled by a fl cat which ran out in front of him during one of the first stages, ending his race.
		When it was first introduced to the Giro in 1994 Pantani attacked on it leaving everyone behind, to finally earn one of his best victories at Aprica; in 1999 the Mortirolo waited for Pantani in vain since he was excluded from that Giro before the beginning of the stage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marco_Pantani (1638 words)

	Marco Pantani - CyclingWiki
		Marco Pantani was an Italian cyclist widely regarded as being one of the best climbers of his generation in professional road bicycle racing.
		Pantani developed a unique climbing style in which he stayed on the drops the entire way, often while pedaling out of the saddle.
		Pantani returned to action in the Giro in 1997, but was felled by a fl cat which ran out in front of him during one of the first stages, ending his race.
	www.biciclopedia.com /mediawiki-1.4.0/index.php?title=Marco_Pantani (1412 words)

	Marco Pantani - Wikipedia
		Pantani ritornò a correre nel 1997, ma subì un nuovo incidente al Giro d'Italia, a causa dell'attraversamento di un gatto al passaggio del gruppo, che lo costrinse al ritiro.
		Marco Pantani si era messo in mostra spettacolarmente anche al Giro d'Italia, dove il grande numero di tappe di montagna favorì il suo stile unico.
		Il 14 febbraio 2004, Marco Pantani venne trovato morto in un residence di Rimini.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marco_Pantani (1209 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport \| Cycling \| Pantani found dead
		Scandal followed Pantani, and during the 2001 Giro a syringe containing traces of insulin was found in his hotel room in a police raid.
		Pantani insisted the syringe had been planted and that he did not stay in the room on the night in question.
		Pantani, who was also third in the Tour in 1994 and 1997, began his career with the Carrera team.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/3489569.stm (560 words)

	Runner's & Triathlete's Web- Cycling: Cyclist Marco Pantani - A Remembrance
		Pantani, 34, the last of the seven cyclists to claim the Tour of Italy and Tour de France in the same year, died alone in an Italian hotel room Feb. 15 under suspicious circumstances.
		Pantani had already won many races, but he vaulted himself to the top of the cycling world when soloed to his '98 stage win in the Tour de France with a quick, definitive attack in the Col du Galibier, 2,646-meter peak high into the Alps.
		Pantani failed a random drug test at the 1999 Tour of Italy and was expelled from the race.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20040405_Raia_Pantani.html (659 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Marco Pantani
		The featherweight Pantani was a throwback to the halcyon days of Italian cycling, the 1940s and 1950s, and to one man in particular, Fausto Coppi, who was the first to achieve the double of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.
		Pantani was the son of a family who earned a living running a kiosk in the small resort of Cesenatico, selling ice creams and pancakes.
		But Pantani's rise coincided with the institutionalising of drug-taking among professional cyclists, and, by June 1999, he had become a pariah after failing a blood test in the Giro d'Italia.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1149024,00.html (668 words)

	[Deathwatch] Marco Pantani, former Tour de France winner, 34
		Pantani's half-naked and cold body was found on the floor near to his bed in "The Roses" hotel on the Adriatic coast, ANSA news agency reported.
		The 1990s saw Pantani forge a reputation as one of the best climbers in the peloton, but his career hit the skids in the wake of the tough anti-doping laws introduced in Italy after the 1999 Tour of Italy when he was targeted in a police swoop on riders' hotels.
		Pantani returned to compete in the 2000 Tour de France where he scored his last major victory on the stage to Courchevel.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2004-February/000640.html (796 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Sport \| Cycling \| Cycling: Pantani dies broken and alone
		Marco Pantani's death on Saturday in a rented apartment in Rimini was a pathetic, lonely end for one of the sport's larger-than-life heroes, but there was an implacable logic about his final descent that was redolent of Greek tragedy.
		Pantani was not banned after the blood test, but prosecutors opened investigations on the basis that he had fixed results by taking drugs, committing "sporting fraud".
		Pantani spent his final years convinced that cycling had permitted him to become the scapegoat for a sport in which, by the mid-90s, drug-taking was the rule and from which, inevitably, he received little support when he was exposed.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /cycling/story/0,10482,1149110,00.html (1220 words)

	Marco Pantani: A tragic figure
		Pantani was still an icon to the public, despite the frequent allegation of doping, and his subsequent hounding by the Italian judicial system.
		Pantani was one of the few riders who contacted Armstrong when the Texan was recovering from cancer to offer him a place on his team.
		Pantani started the Giro last May determined to show that he was still worthy of the status of contender, and eager to go on to ride the centennial Tour.
	www.velonews.com /news/fea/5563.0.html (619 words)

	Marco Pantani
		Marco Pantani had na zijn uitstekende prestaties in 1998 veel moed om in 1999 nog beter te doen en dit werd ook snel bekrachtigd door de winst in de Ronde van Murcia.
		Marco Pantani werd in de roze trui en op de voorlaatste dag van zijn Giro naar huis gestuurd met een te hoog hematocriet- gehalte.
		Marco Pantani werd eenzaam en alleen dood gevonden in een hotelkamer te Rimini.
	www.marco-pantani.com /biografie.html (763 words)

	Daily Peloton - Pro Cycling News
		Marco Pantani's funeral will be held Wednesday at the Church di San Giacomo in Pantani's home town of Cesenatico.
		Readers may wish to visit the Marco Pantani fan site to post their condolences, or the official Pantani site which today has a chat and a forum available.
		Marco Pantani was born in Cesenatico, Italy, on January 13, 1970.
	www.dailypeloton.com /displayarticle.asp?pk=5656 (835 words)

	Marco Pantani: A tragic figure
		The staff at the Roses hotel, where Pantani checked in last Monday, said he seemed "out of it." Living there like a recluse this past week, he was using room service for most of his meals, although Friday night he ate at a neighboring restaurant.
		Marco Pantani, known as Il Pirata (the Pirate) was the fastest climber of his generation, known for his incredible accelerations that left his opponents in the dust.
		Pantani's aggression split apart the race, and even though he himself eventually blew up, his effort caused Armstrong's Postal team to make an all-day chase through the mountains, and Armstrong bonked on the day's last climb, putting his yellow jersey in jeopardy.
	www.velonews.com /news/fea/5563.1.html (880 words)

	Marco Pantani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Note: I wrote this in August of 1998, obviously before Marco Pantani's expulsion from the 1999 Giro d'Italia because of an excessive hematocrit level*.
		Earlier this year, Pantani rode brilliantly to win the Giro d'Italia (the second most important race in the world, unless you are Italian!).
		Pantani then cracked 1996 Giro winner Pavel Tonkov on the last mountaintop finish, and rode above all expectations in the final time trial to secure his victory.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~wenger/pantani.html (573 words)

	ESPN.com - MORESPORTS/TDF00 - Tour takes day off, but Armstrong rips Pantani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pantani has been fuming since Armstrong let the fiery Italian win the Tour's 12th stage on Thursday after the pair arrived together to the top of Mont Ventoux, one of the Tour's most revered climbs.
		Pantani is one of the proudest riders in the European peloton and earns victories by unleashing brutal attacks in the steepest mountain stages.
		Pantani came to the Tour with ambitions of winning, but Armstrong is comfortably in the lead with less than a week of racing left.
	espn.go.com /moresports/tdf00/s/2000/0717/637744.html (1052 words)

	Tour de France 2007: Marco Pantani Archives
		Pantani was found dead in a Rimini hotel room on February 14 and several packets of half-empty sedatives were found beside the 34-year-old who was also known to have a cocaine habit.
		Pantani holds the record for an ascent of the mountain, during a road stage in 1997.
		Marco Pantani, whose attacking style won both the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia in 1998, was found dead in an Italian hotel Saturday night.
	www.tdfblog.com /marco_pantani/index.html (2481 words)

	Remembering Marco Pantani
		Tour de France and Giro d'Italia winner Marco Pantani was found dead Saturday evening, February 14, on the floor of his hotel room at Le Rose on Italy's Adriatic coast, surrounded by half-empty jars of antidepressants.
		His untimely death was from a heart attack, cerebral edema and lung damage, the causes of which are still unknown.
		In a few short weeks Pantani went from being the pride of a nation to a worldwide scapegoat.
	www.bikemag.com /news/pantani (446 words)

	Cycling Hall of Fame.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marco Pantani was born in Cesena, Italy on January 13, 1970.
		Pantani was also third in the 1997 Tour de France behind Jan Ullrich of Germany and Richard Virenque of France.
		Pantani’s achievements might have been even greater had he not suffered a badly broken leg in the in October, 1995 when he was hit by a car in the Milan-Turin race.
	www.cyclinghalloffame.com /riders/rider_bio.asp?rider_id=34 (249 words)

	PezCycling News - What's Cool In Pro Cycling
		Marco Pantani, definitely not at previous climbing capabilities, takes the win on Mont Ventoux after being dropped repeatedly, catching back on, attacking repeatedly, getting pulled back, and finally being let go, probably because the others were tired of his irritating attacks.
		Pantani had succeeded in distancing himself from Lance and the USPS team over the earlier major climbs of that day (two Cat 1’s, a Cat 2 and a Cat 3).
		In 2003 Marco came back to the Giro d’Italia and showed brief flashes of his former self, but his 14th place on GC was his very last race placing.
	www.pezcyclingnews.com /?pg=fullstory&id=1997 (1860 words)

	Marco Pantani: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marco Pantani (January 13, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marco_pantani.htm (3309 words)

	www.cyclingnews.com - the world centre of cycling
		Pantani was the number one in cycling, but he became the symbol of evil.
		Pantani had 36 pro wins, among which were his first, at the 1994 Giro d'Italia in Merano and his last pro win at the Tour De France in 2000 at Courchevel.
		Marco Pantani would be neither the first winner of the Tour de France nor the race's first star climber to have died unexpectedly.
	www.cyclingnews.com /news.php?id=news/2004/feb04/feb15news2 (2754 words)

	CNN.com - The tragic death of Marco Pantani - Feb. 17, 2004
		Whatever the cause of Marco Pantani's death, the circumstances were tragic.
		His rise and fall was spectacular, and the setting for his demise at the age of just 34 could have been lifted from a classic work of literature.
		Marco Pantani died alone, in a seaside hotel, in the middle of winter.
	cnn.com /2004/SPORT/02/17/riddell.pantani/index.html (576 words)

	Amazon.com: Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion: Books: John Wilcockson,Graham Watson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marco Pantani won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in the same year, 1998, a feat previously achieved only by giants of the sport like Eddy Merckx, Fausto Coppi, and Miguel Indurain.
		The tragic death of Marco Pantani underlined the darker side of cycling (and any other professional sport), where some athletes feel compelled to cheat in order to further their professional careers.
		Or was Marco simply a scapegoat of the system in which he found himself entangled in the web of cycling's programmatic unfairness.
	www.amazon.com /Marco-Pantani-Legend-Tragic-Champion/dp/1931382654 (2352 words)

	Nove Colli - MARCO PANTANI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As already said in the latest edition of Nove Colli Marco Pantani, the cyclist shorts will match the jersey every entrant of the event was given last year.
		This is to communicate to anybody going to put his name down for Nove Colli Marco Pantani that no longer place is available in the Blue Grid(from n°1501 to n°4000).
		Marco Pantani's hometown of Cesenatico will unveil a monument honoring the fallen star on the eve of the one-year anniversary of his death.
	www.novecolli.it /mainsite_eng/news.asp (261 words)

	Blog of Death: Marco Pantani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marco Pantani, a cyclist who won the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1998, died on Feb. 14 from a cocaine overdose.
		Italy's most popular cyclist, Pantani was called "The Pirate" for the bandanna and earring he wore during races.
		Although Pantani claimed the syringe had been planted, he was suspended from professional cycling for eight months.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000749.html (480 words)

	VELOGEAR.COM - CYCLING, MOUNTAIN BIKING, AND MULTISPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Marco Pantani twice defeated Lance Armstrong in mountaintop stages of the 2000 Tour de France.
		But Pantani was also a victim of the drug culture of professional cycling, and from the heights of stardom he sank to the depths of depression.
		Marco Pantani: The Legend of a Tragic Champion chronicles the highs and lows of Pantani’s life and cycling career.
	store.velogear.com /mapaleoftrch.html (144 words)

	SportsFilter \| Marco Pantani found dead.
		: Pantani, winner of the 98 Tour de France, was banned for failing a drug test in 1999, and has since been treated for drug addiction and depression.
		And only hours after it was announced that Pantani died, 21 year-old Belgian cyclist Johan Sermon was found dead of a heart attack.
		The autopsy into the death of Marco Pantani has revealed the cyclist suffered a heart attack following severe swelling of the heart and brain.
	www.sportsfilter.com /comments.cfm/2816 (309 words)

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