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Sport's Strangest Crimes: Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate: 7. A Sad Day For The Sport

Marco Pantani: Death of a Pirate

7. A Sad Day For The Sport

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Marco Pantani is a broken man as he tries desperately to clear his name.

Marco Pantani is a broken man as he tries desperately to clear his name. Then on Valentine’s Day, 2004, some devastating news shocks Italy.

After his disqualification from the 1999 Giro, Marco Pantani is devastated and withdrawn. His cocaine abuse worsens, and he becomes obsessed with clearing his name. Friends and family watch on, helpless, as his career begins to slip away - and then, on Valentine’s Day 2004, some devastating news shocks Italy: the Pirate has is dead.

Narrated by Hugh Dennis, with the voices of Iain Ferrier and Helen Roper

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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