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 ...

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.

Marco Pantani, cyclist: born Cesena, Italy 13 January 1970; died Rimini, Italy 14 February 2004. Marco Pantani, winner of the 1998 Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, was an erratic cycling genius ...

Six years after his mysterious death in a hotel in Rimini, Marco Pantani will be remembered with a special mass and gathering of friends and family in his hometown of Cesenatico on the Italian ...

Although Armstrong couldn't match Marco Pantani's attack late in Sunday's tough 107-mile, three-climb 15th stage from Briancon to Courchevel high in the French Alps, the bald-headed Italian couldn ...

PROSECUTORS say there’s no evidence Italian cycling star Marco Pantani, who died after a massive cocaine binge in 2004, was murdered. AFP and Network Writers less than 2 min read ...

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). A long hard chase brought the field to a very ...

The UAE Team Emirates rider climbed the 15.8km ascent in a time of 39:41, besting Pantani’s record by 3:40. A record that had stood since 1998 when Pantani set it on the climb's first appearance ...

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 ...