So in 1999 the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, set Pantani up.
It makes me sad to think that in my country one person that works so hard to obtain a result gets destroyed by people that have never done anything positive in their lives, only to end up dead in a hotel room all alone with his name shamed.
http://www.gazzetta.it/Ciclismo/14-03-2016/campiglio-1999-finalmente-verita-scrive-pm-cosi-pantani-fu-truffato-1401014039716.shtml
To think that Armstrong said "I let him win" at Mount Ventoux in 2000, when Pantani had his swan song, I can only bitterly laugh.
>>66159717
Incredibile come siano riusciti a distruggere un uomo
everything south of that red line should be drowned in the sea
agree/disagree?
>>66159848
disagree
>>66159848
agree
>>66159848
>drowning the most beautifull half of italy
oh you
>>66159848
Can't we talk about sport instead?
>TosKana
>Umbrien
>>66159848
leave puglia alone fuckface
>>66159717
No one set anyone up, buddy.
>A coke head with a history of overdose overdoses
>IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
Also pic related,
>GOAT kit
>GOAT EPO
>GOAT Colnago C40
Mapei confirmed as GOAT team.
>>66160343
Except they have indisputable proves this time, genius.
Go troll somewhere else.
This is like the biggest sport news of the month and no one gives a shit.
Sasuga /sp/.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/claims-mafia-role-pantani-giro-exclusion-180452488--spt.html
English version
>>66163682
That article misses some info, it looks like a bad translation of an agency.
The police doesn't have the tape alone, they've already identified all the people involved, included the doctor who falsified the test under threat. At least this is what the Italian article says.
>>66159717
;_;7
>>66163630
cycling has always been irrelevant for the average american
armstrong winning and overcoming cancer made it sliglty more relevant, but then finding out he's a liar and a cheat makes it extra super duper irrelevant
he absolutely killed the sport for the USA
i'd be stunned if 1% of america could tell you who won the tour de france
I pretend I am Pantani when I am out on my bike. Always attack other cyclists on the hills
What a horrible, corrupt and violent country. Ugh.
>>66165177
That is the spirit!
>>66165050
Sad, cycling is an amazing sport, as opposed to all american favourites. There was a time when cycling was the national sport in Italy.
>>66159717
Do you have an English version friend? Or maybe you could tell the story?
>>66165241
Cycling threads on /sp/ start next week with Milan Sanremo. Can't wait.
>>66165287
http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/03/news/pantani-intrigue-simmers-in-italy_398524
Last year, a convicted underworld figure, Renato Vallanzasca, claimed that “key” Mafia figures looking to win big on a Pantani defeat in the 1999 Giro predicted that “Pantani will not finish the race.”
On Monday La Repubblica newspaper released an audio tape in which another, unnamed detainee backs Vallanzasca’s claims. He said the Camorra, an Italian Mafia crime syndicate based in Naples, played a decisive role in making sure Pantani did not make it to the Milan finish line.
In a tapped telephone conversation, the unnamed caller tells a female listener that Vallanzasca’s claims were true. “Basically, the Camorra made Pantani lose the Giro … by changing the [doping] tests and making sure he tested positive,” said the caller. “This is something that should be known, the mother [of Pantani] should also be told.”
Asked by the female listener if the claims are true, the caller says “yes” five times.
Pantani led the Giro with only one mountain stage left when he underwent an early morning doping test and was thrown off the race. The Italian had a red blood cell count just above the UCI threshold. Although this was not proof of doping, it was enough to end his participation “on health grounds.”
>>66160225
Wait a second, who the fuck are you?
>>66160225
this is arguably the rarest flag
>>66168243
I believe Marshall Islands is the rarest, as you can't get a proxy from there.
>>66159717
I really miss my father's Fiat Marea
>>66160225
really rare
>>66165050
Good thing that we base our decisions on what the average piece of shit in america likes then isn't it. Please kill yourself.
>>66160225
wow you guys need to get this flag right now
>>66159717
How the fuck do you expect an English posting board to read your goomba meatball marinara greasy guinea wop dago language?
No parlo Italianese, speak English.
>>66168243
Nope, Saint Barthelemy is.
http://whatisthisimnotgoodwithcomputers.com/#/flagratio
>>66174646
Unless you want to include impossible flags like Bouvet Island, Heard & McDonald Islands and Western Sahara.
>>66174656
Me Heard Island
cycling is the goat sport
>>66159717
>Muh 90s super dopers
Armstrong should have killed himself with coke too, his legacy would've lived a lot longer than it did.
>>66174611
You're telling me you don't already know who the greatest cyclist of the nineties is?
The real news is that now it's been proved that the mafia seti him up.
Fucking burgers.
>>66174741
Fucking Australians as well.
>>66175153
>the greatest cyclist of the nineties
You mean Miguel Indurain?
>>66175307
Pantani was stronger. Indurain didn't win a Giro and a Tour after risking of losing a leg.
>>66175153
>implying no Mikel
>>66175602
How much do you know about Pantani?
>>66175602
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh8CFALejRM
What a bitch.
>>66175685
Il dispetto è inerente a le grandi campioni
>>66174656
I mean, it's technically not impossible. Radio nerds go to those places a lot to broadcast. Ham radio people are the OG flag hunters.
That flag is rare than a Peter Sagan win amirite!?!?!?
>>66175685
What does the video say
>>66178670
Pantani beated Indurain in 94 when he was still a nobody at the Giro, his action made him lose the Giro, Indurain didn't like it. The same year at the Tour when Pantani tried to go away Indurain gave it his all to not let him go even thought Pantani couldn't win the Tour at all.
>>66160225
sweet buby jibus :DD :D :DDDD
>>66160225
proxy get out!!
>>66178520
Again after today you sure are, 1 second as well!
>>66160225
Rare
His greatest moment will always be 48:59 up Mt. Ventoux, the stage that proves every year who the real cyclist is.
>>66191202
The Giro generally has thoughest mountains.
>>66160225
That's the rarest Pokeyman I've ever seen in 5chins
>mfw 3/4 of the posts are shitposting about a flag
What a fucking worthless board.
>>66193799
>>>/r9k/ or post some rare pizzas
>>66167826
>>66168243
>>66168585
>>66168946
>>66179436
>>66179671
>>66189152
>>66193701
>all these retarded shut-in manlets who've never seen a Dutch poster on /sp/
Literally lmaoing at your "lives"
>>66194497
>have strayan posters filtered
>see that many posts were answered by the same filtered post
>open it
fuck
>>66196047
This happens me all the time with Peru. The anime posting weirdo
>>66165287
Basically, a mafioso testified that mafia bosses bribed doctors to falsify a failed drugs test for Marco Pantani (winner of the '98 Tour de France and Giro d'Italia).
This failed drugs test got him ejected from the '99 Tour when he winning by over five minutes. But this testimony suggests he didn't fail the test at all.
The reason the doctors were bribed was betting. The Mafia stood to lose millions in paying out bet winnings if Pantani won.
>>66196301
>Marco Pantani (winner of the '98 Tour de France and Giro d'Italia).
>mfw you have explain to people who Marco Pantani was
>on /sp/
You guys ever heard of Maradona (winner of '86 WC)?
>>66194497
holy fuck you're an idiot place ur mouse above his flag please
