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Sport's Strangest Crimes: Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate: 5. All The World's A Stage

Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate

5. All The World's A Stage

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Convinced of a setup, Pantani is paranoid - following the money adds fuel to the fire.

Convinced of a setup, Pantani is paranoid, following the money adds fuel to the fire. Why was there so much money in 90s cycling? And who was trying to get their hands on it?

Convinced of a setup, Pantani is paranoid and following the money adds fuel to the fire. Why was there so much money in 90s cycling? And who was trying to get their hands on it?

With the help of leading cycling historian Professor John Foot, Italian historian Dr Francesca Billiani, and Phil Liggett MBE, we learn how, over the course of the 90s, cycling went from a niche continental sport, to a billion-dollar industry - and how one man winning all the time might not have been in everyone’s best interests. From sponsors and gamblers to commercial and criminal enterprises - many had a vested interest in seeing Pantani fall.

It’s time to follow the money.

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Narrated by Hugh Dennis, with the voice of Iain Ferrier

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

Writer and producer: Katie Sayer
Executive producer: Jon Holmes

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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