1998年马可潘塔尼，他那个时代最出风头的和流行的骑自行车，赢得了环法自行车赛和环意大利自行车赛，身体和心理承受能力的泰坦尼克号的壮举，因为没有车手已经重复。他是一个英雄，数以百万计，骑自行车的下列哪些威胁要摧毁这项运动的兴奋剂丑闻的救世主。然而，不到六年以后，年龄只有34，他独自一人死亡，在经济型酒店房间，急性中毒可卡因。他曾是一个瘾君子五年。这是他这一代最重要的意大利自行车运动员打的惨烈战役的故事;男子山的诗句，诗句运动员瘾，马可潘塔尼诗句自己。

　　In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, a titanic feat of physical and mental endurance that no rider has repeated since. He was a hero to millions, the saviour of cycling following the doping scandals which threatened to destroy the sport. However, less than six years later, aged just 34, he died alone, in a cheap hotel room, from acute cocaine poisoning. He had been an addict for five years. This is the story of the tragic battles fought by the most important Italian cyclist of his generation; man verses mountain, athlete verses addiction, Marco Pantani verses himself.

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