num_pages: 308
description: Cyclist Marco Pantanis death is one of the most tragic events in recent sports history. After winning both the Tour de France and the Giro dItalia in 1998 he was expected to dominate cycling well into the next decade. Instead he was caught in a blood-doping scandal disappeared from view and in 2004 was found dead of cocaine poisoning. Matt Rendell tells Pantanis story with an investigative reporters zeal for the facts and a novelists skill for depicting deeper truths. He debunks the conspiracy theories that have circulated about Pantanis demise and also reveals other startling findings about the dark underside of the cycling world.
language: English
title: The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography
publisher: Phoenix