March 08, 2004

Requiem for Pantani...: I have read some pretty sour accounts of the life and death of Marco Pantani, this one avoids cynicism and simply presents us, movingly, with an account of a tragedy.

posted by Fat Buddha to extreme at 02:25 PM - 1 comment

At Le Rose, Pantani unwittingly became a neighbour of an old rival, the last pure climber to beat him at the height of his form. Piotr Ugrumov, a Russian-speaking Latvian, second in the 1994 Tour de France - just behind Induráin, just ahead of Pantani - lives with his wife, Anna, on the fifth floor of the building facing the window of Pantani's hotel room. great read. thanks.

posted by garfield at 05:21 PM on March 08, 2004

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