Journal Entry 1 by CrazyDutchwoman from Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Friday, June 12, 2009

Book Category: Sports and Non Fiction- Biography


This book is one my mom and me have wanted to read for quite some time now. I finally decided to just buy it cause I discovered a secondhand book seller who offered this book for not too much money.

My mom is in the hospital, she has had a new hip, so this afternoon I gave this book to her, but I told her it was a gift for both of us. LOL.
We are both fans of Marco.



Cyclist Marco Pantani’s death is one of the most tragic events in recent sports history. After winning both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1998, he was expected to dominate cycling well into the next decade. Instead, he was caught in a blood-doping scandal, disappeared from view, and, in 2004, was found dead of cocaine poisoning. Matt Rendell tells Pantani’s story with an investigative reporter’s zeal for the facts and a novelist’s skill for depicting deeper truths. He debunks the conspiracy theories that have circulated about Pantani’s demise, and also reveals other startling findings about the dark underside of the cycling world.