The Death of Marco Pantani, Matt Rendell
The Death of Marco Pantani, Matt Rendell
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The Death of Marco Pantani
A Biography

Author: Matt Rendell

Narrator: Matt Rendell

Unabridged: 15 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/08/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

The intimate biography of the charismatic Tour de France winner Marco Pantani, now updated to include the 2014 and 2015 investigation into Pantani's death.

National Sporting Club Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

'An exhaustively detailed and beautiful book . . . a fitting, ambivalent tribute - to the man, and to the dark heart of the sport he loved' Independent

On Valentine's day 2004, Marco Pantani was found dead in a cheap hotel. It defied belief: Pantani, having won the rare double of the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 1998, was regarded as the only cyclist capable of challenging Lance Armstrong's dominance. Only later did it emerge that Pantani had been addicted to cocaine since 1999.

Drawing on his personal encounters with Pantani, as well as exclusive access to his psychoanalysts, and interviews with his family and friends, Matt Rendell has produced the definitive account of an iconic sporting figure.

About Matt Rendell

Matt Rendell is an award-winning author and journalist. He is a member of ITV's presentation team at the Tour de France and, as a translator, reporter, commentator and podcaster, he has contributed to British Tour coverage for over 25 years. He created the Real Peloton podcast and hosted ITV's Tour de France podcast. He has written for the Observer, New Statesman, Guardian and Financial Times, as well as the principal cycling magazines and websites.His many books include The Death of Marco Pantani and Colombia Es Pasión! When not writing, he leads cycle tours in Europe and Colombia.Contact him on Twitter @mrendell.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on June 26, 2023

A thoroughly researched and effectively structured account into Marco Pantani’s life. Rendell is sympathetic yet straightforward throughout, and does particularly well not to shy away from confronting Pantani’s doping given that on first publication in 2006, discussions on this topic weren’t as fran......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on December 08, 2021

3.5 stars. I only got into cycling after this era so I didn’t know much about Pantani’s story. This is an exhaustively researched book, but that does make it a bit of a slog at times, and after Lance Armstrong it’s a difficult to get too excited at the non-shocking news that Pantani was doping (whic......more

Goodreads review by Jack on February 05, 2024

No slaying the badger......more

Goodreads review by Will on March 31, 2013

It is always a sobering experience to read about the all-too-human foibles of your heroes. As a lifelong follower of professional cycling I have had many occasions to lament over the drug-tainted careers of top racers, almost to the extent that most (until the recent stringent clean-up of the sport)......more

Goodreads review by Martin on September 12, 2012

As a man who inspired, and still inspires, strong emotional responses from fans and those who knew him, Marco Pantani was a complex character, viewed by those who knew him in different ways, dependent on what strata of his life he allowed them to enter. To research and produce a balanced work that p......more

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