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Sport's Strangest Crimes: Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate: 2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate

2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough

BBC Radio 5 Live - Sport's Strangest Crimes, Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate, 2. Ain't No Mountain High Enough

The 1998 Tour de France is the worst in history, but for one man, it couldn’t go better.

With doping, drug funds, and dawn raids, the 1998 Tour de France is one of the most infamous races in cycling history. In the aftermath of the Festina Affair, it looks like the Tour will be damaged for good. But one man emerges victorious - Marco Pantani, the plucky underdog, and new-found saviour of the sport.

But not everyone is thrilled with his seemingly super-human victory... and the voice of cycling himself, Phil Liggett MBE, talks us through the dirtiest Tour in history.

Narrated by Hugh Dennis

Sound design: Rich Evans
Additional production: Lorenzo Bodrero, Matt Kenyon and Ed Morrish

Writer and producer: Katie Sayer
Executive producer: Jon Holmes

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Sport's Strangest Crimes: Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate

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Cycling and organised crime collide when a champion cyclist is mysteriously found dead.

When Italy's greatest cyclist is mysteriously found dead, sensational claims of mafia involvement see the world of cycling collide with the murky underworld of organised crime.

When Italy's greatest cyclist is mysteriously found dead, sensational allegations of mafia involvement see the world of cycling collide, headfirst, with the murky underworld of organised crime.

Over the course of this podcast, we'll travel from the mountains of rural Italy, to the shady commercial underbelly of a sport on the rise, as - two decades on - the police, historians and our cycling-obsessed host Hugh Dennis try to answer once and for all what really happened to Marco Pantani.

With allegations of doping, race-fixing, gambling, and corruption, 90s cycling provides the backdrop for one of the most dramatic questions in sport - and criminal - history... would the mafia really kill a cyclist?

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