Velopress Marco Pantani: Legend Of A Tragic Champion
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Velopress Marco Pantani: Legend Of A Tragic Champion
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Velopress Marco Pantani: Legend Of A Tragic Champion: Marco Pantani, once Italy's most celebrated cyclist, died alone on Valentine's Day in a hotel just one month after his 34th birthday - it was a sad shocking end for this champion who had reached the highest levels of athletic achievement in 1998 when he won the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia in the same year. Now, for the first time the full story of Pantani's sparkling career and spectacular fall from grace is told including an interview - never before published in English with Pantani's girlfriend Christina Jonsson, describing the star's final days.
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