A complicated legacy - Tour de France's Italian start casts spotlight on Marco Pantani's tainted glory
Briefly

Pantani was the best out-and-out climber in the peloton at the time and one of the most enigmatic figures of all in the EPO-fueled nineties. He was fragile and human, but also defiant and determined.
Depending on how you see the EPO era, Pantani was either a hero or a villain, creating some of the great memories of the sport in the high mountains or casting a long shadow of deceit and omertà that remains even today.
Read at cyclingnews.com
[
|
]