Pantani

[suzeworld]

Has anyone seen the film, it came out this week, but not getting many cinema showings, it is already available on DVD.

He won the tour de France the very first year we started watching the tour. We loved him. I cried when I cycled past his monument on the Galibier.

These characters are very much part of the tour. If you expunge them, there isn't much left, and I cannot undo my old pleasure from watching him which got me interested in the sport, and ultimately in being a keener cyclist myself.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Has anyone seen the film, it came out this week, but not getting many cinema showings, it is already available on DVD.

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/rapha-and-marco-pantini.155310/page-4

 

[suzeworld]

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/rapha-and-marco-pantini.155310/page-4

Thanks for this link. I enjoyed yr review

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Was he murdered?
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/pantani-death-case-reopened-was-he-murdered

 

[ufkacbln]

Trouble is there will always be those who worship the cheaters.

Several have cult followings

 

[ufkacbln]

NO, I put my copy in the DVD player yrsterday and the machine says it cannot play it.

OT - Is it a "region code issue"?

Some PCs have players that allow you to change the region code and the DVD can then be watched.

 

[ufkacbln]

Apologies it is completely OT. I have just seen that i am trying to play a bluray disk in a DVD player

I was not suggesting that your post was OT, it was the reply discussing technical issues of DVDs that was off topic.... we may have needed to have the thread shifted, they are a funny lot as to what can be posted on Pro Cycling

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I finally saw the film and I thought it was a sad and very fair analysis of the story, not surprisingly given the book upon which it was based. In the film, Pantani's mother had clearly not accepted the official verdict on his death and it turns out that she may yet be proved correct - iit's not over yet. The courts have agreed that the verdict in Pantani's death should be revisted following a dossier of evidence compiled on behalf of the family which apparently suggests that Marco was held down and forced to drink a mixture of cocaine and water. This would be one explanation of why his body contained way more cocaine than would have been possible for him to have taken himself...

 

[ufkacbln]

Wasn't there also an allegation that one of the other Italian TdF winners Fausto Coppi was also murdered

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Wasn't there also an allegation that one of the other Italian TdF winners Fausto Coppi was also murdered

"Shrouded in mystery" I think would be the phrase...although it would seem a medical cock-up best describes it. Although there is report from 2002 claiming he was poisoned:
http://velonews.competitor.com/2002/01/news/report-fausto-coppi-was-murdered_1689

 

[Milzy]

And Nibali is clean of course!! L O L !!!

 

[ufkacbln]

Conspiracy theories.....

 

[400bhp]

And Nibali is clean of course!! L O L !!!

Why the insinuation? Cos eees a foreigner?

 

[fossyant]

And Nibali is clean of course!! L O L !!!

Milzy, Mod intervention, what has this got to do with this thread ?

You either contribute properly or you get a thread ban.

 

[fossyant]

Personally, I have a terrible time in my mind with the Pantani stuff. Good/bad, dunno...... sad time for cycling.