Top 5 victories of Marco PANTANI, the "pirate".

The last old-fashioned climber. Uncontrollable, fearsome. He left us unrepeatable moments in the high mountains during the 90s, where he dominated the most epic summits in the world of cycling.
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He´s considered by many, or almost all, the best climber of the modern era. His ill-fated and sad end made him a cycling legend, but we´re going to focus on his sporting successes, and we´re going to show you the 5 best moments of his career.
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[@epiccyclists]

Epic comeback in the MORTIROLO - Alberto CONTADOR's best attacks: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqLEfouXbt97r5I TOP 5 time trials. Miguel INDURAIN - "Big Mig": kzbin.info/www/bejne/iance2aYbsyBodk The PUNCH that cost MERCKX the 6th Tour - 1975 TOUR de FRANCE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6vOhn6CZcuqb80 From sprinter to TOTAL CYCLIST - Laurent JALABERT kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJWXkpyootSNec0

[@everythingexplored5233]

I was lucky enough to be at the 1998 TDF and I can tell you that stage was freezing cold rain like you would not believe even though it was summer at altitude it was like winter. It has to be his greatest victory and one of the greatest ever mountain stages in the tours history

[@epiccyclists]

It's dificult to choose. Thanks

[@Robert-mn8gc]

My all Time Favourite Climber. Followed by Alberto Contador. And in no particular order after these 2 . Froome , Ritchie Porte & the last 2 Riders of the last 4 TdeF 's

[@Robert-mn8gc]

My Favourite all time ⏲️ climber 😅

[@juanjosevallejo2522]

The BEST climber in history

[@epiccyclists]

thank you very much

[@markhill9275]

Nope, Charly Gaul would've blown Pantani off his wheel, just like he did everyone else. Pantani was in Fuente, or The Eagle's league!

[@epiccyclists]

@@markhill9275 I'm not so sure. Thanks for your opinion

[@alaefarmestatesllc]

@@markhill9275nah

[@-Stop-it]

@@markhill9275 - What was Charly’s best time up Alpe d’Huez ? Some say the fastest ever ascent during a Tour stage is Pantani’s 13.7 km version of the route in 37 minutes.

[@tommasoboccellari270]

Ogni tributo a Pantani è giusto e doveroso. Pantani deve essere celebraro ovunque e per sempre, sia per onorare la sua grandezza, sia per evidenziare l'infamia di chi ce l'ha sulla coscienza.

[@epiccyclists]

Giusto. Grazie

[@Robert-mn8gc]

Thx 4 Sharing

[@ashleygreen3634]

We used to call him "That Italian climbing freak"

[@Avianthro]

Great presentation! Keep'em coming!

[@epiccyclists]

Thank you very much, we´ll continue

[@Avianthro]

@@epiccyclists You're welcome...Right on!

[@raphaelgord831]

Encore un cycliste avec un énorme talent en montagne qui a été sacrifier sur l autel de la performance à tout prix

[@tman5634]

Excellent presentation, thanks for sharing. New subscriber 😀

[@epiccyclists]

Thanks to you for seeing 😉

[@giannicarati7472]

Di un altro Pianeta

[@epiccyclists]

Il miglior scalatore della storia :)

[@Robert-mn8gc]

Yep still the Best Climber in the Pro Peloton 👌 . 2nd Best 4Me was Alberto Contador el pistolero

[@epiccyclists]

Thanks for your opinion😄

[@jds6206]

Pantani, Contador, Zabel, Armstrong, Ullrich, et al…….all dopers.

[@jasonstevenson110]

@@jds6206 Serious question: When did you start following this sport?

[@alexsarpele6477]

@@jds6206and what???? All was dopped……but have to have a strong body, well prepared, to dopped

[@matheusmorais7221]

🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@kenshippey5098]

Liked Pantini

[@epiccyclists]

The best climber in history

[@hanselmugol4724]

Technically, it was Elefantino who won Alp d'Huez in 95 and Aprica in 94. The "pirate" only came about in 97.

[@epiccyclists]

You're absolutely right

[@Bobby-vz9eq]

Just imagine how could have won if he didn't have the two '95 accidents and the '97 one

[@epiccyclists]

We'll never know. Thanks

[@jds6206]

Just imagine if he would have won, without doping….

[@Bobby-vz9eq]

@@jds6206 all doped in that era, all knows

[@markhill9275]

Nope, without doubt The Angel is clearly the greatest climber of all time. Marco was bloody good, as a climber he was up there with the greats, but dancing out front, is Charly, greatest climber ever!

[@epiccyclists]

Thank you. Soon we´ll make a video with the best climbers

[@alaefarmestatesllc]

Nope

[@jds6206]

He was an EPO doper, like MOST of the 1990s professional peloton

[@markmahoney5255]

The narrator needs to seriously work on his pronunciation of French, Italian and Russian names of racers and places. At first it was comical but, at times, it took me a moment to figure out what he was trying to say. By the end it was really irritating.

[@epiccyclists]

We´ll try to improve it, thanks

[@Garfie1d73]

Just imagine how he would have faired without DOPING like a madman. Forget these guys - they don't deserve it. Thumbs down.

[@antcycli6633]

If no other cyclists were doping, still up there. He was epic as a child on the hills

[@jds6206]

A DOPER from the Doped Peloton generation. Almost certainly, everyone “in the break” in those days, was juiced; Pantani was one of the most consistent PED abusers. And he died like a doper…. Nothing “famous” or “best” about him. Marco Pantani was just like the rest of the EPO users of the era.

[@leonardofabbri7930]

too simplistic view for a complex trajectory deserving lots of words, since he was juiced like all the other big names as you can see from the data, but also a mega polarizing talent with a unique style, charisma, personality and he was also used as a scapegoat-lightning conductor. Media and judicial powers abused of him (think about he was pursued without a law to condamn the eventual facts he did, this is called rule of law in modern democracies, while no other rider who had same issue with hematocrit values saw criminal trials opened against and the process against the lab in Ferrara expired by time right after his death, all happening with the trials against him that already were used in previous years to cover the system). Then guess what happened around LA, Ferrari and US Postal centered system, they all kept doing the same thing (the international big names didn't attend the Giro, cause they knew Italy was the country that started everything in 80s and then wanted to clean everything with a massive inquisitorial atmosphere, instrumental to a fake clean-up). The hypocrisy of all this chaos, combined with dubious around test of 5th June '99, drove him into depression and his self-destruction. He never trained same way as before after the Madonna di Campiglio test that remains suspicious anyway, no matter the fact Marco was under EPO or not (in the afternoon he had a test at Imola hospital and the value of platelets is not compatible with the one he had few hours before, since hematocrit lowered to 48%, but platelets increased a lot and this difference has no scientific explication, therefore high likely early morning test has something wrong and I'm saying this as someone who never bought the mafia stories). He started winning races in mountains since childhood and if pro cycling was a world where everybody took self blood transmissions and amphetamines in early 80s, then everything evolved into rhEPO and hypocritical control of hematocrit values between late 80s and all 90s, well if the system was so "pharmaceutical" (like it is in all sports and even nowadays, don't be naive, NBA and football playing more than 100 games per year with a 10x multiplied pace compared to only twenty years ago), it wasn't his fault. He certainly paid an unncessary price. System put on him the entire weight of everybody's sins and his shoulders weren't able to substain it. He obviously was forced to follow same program as anybody else at the time, in order to pursue his kid dreams. Not a simple situation. How we would act in same context and wearing his clothes? And he was the most promising youngsteer, 3rd, 2nd and winner of Giro baby, all happening three years in a row. Those years, Indurain and Banesto team were clients of Conconi, Roche exploded thanks to EPO, Rooks admitted he took it in late '80s, Chiappucci and Bugno were treated (they all will be few years later in the infamous dblab file of 1994-95 seasons, alongside same Marco, Berzin, Rominger, Olano, Ugrumov, Gotti, Riis, Roche, Sorensen, Argentin, Fondriest etc). Italian doctors such as Conconi, Cecchini and Ferrari, plus federations and institutions rounded by hypocritical media in their connivance (think about the former Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi, who proposed Conconi as vice minister of Public Health for his Gov, since they were close friends, he was at Cesenatico fest in 1998 summer using Marco as vehicle propaganda for his politics and guess how many times he talked about Marco after Madonna di Campiglio test, all the trials and Marco started his emotional downfall....zero!!!) were responsible, they created a system where doping was de facto accepted and the knowledge spreaded all around the peloton. Marco just followed the modus operandi when he entered pro cycling. He was the most captivating rider with his unique style and racecraft, his way to race like he wanted to turn cycling into a spectacle for fans everytime road went uphill. In a clean cycling he would have won even more. He benefitted of the juiced system in some time trials and in lasting his performances when he went out of saddle against gradients, but he wasn't a 80kg big guy-time trial specialist who needed to climb mountains faster. Don't think to him the end has been a pleasure. He died alone and suffering, lost in a lot of mental problems, coke was only a false escape path he somehow used to give himself kind of indirect suicide when he realized he was used by everybody and everything for whole his life.

[@everythingexplored5233]

Pantani the best and most famous climber of all time in the history of cycling

[@andresfelipe4527]

​@@leonardofabbri7930wow lots emotion and tnx for the info and opinon live it , will do my research , love the ambition he hade, and thr fact alway on the climb he fight like no one else

[@leonardofabbri7930]

great to read Marco is appreciated all around the world and even by youngsteers who didn't have the chance to witness him (I suppose). He would like it, cause for him love of common people was everything and the fear of having lost it made him sad. Yes, he was a great fighter, the antidote to boredom and he brought chaos on the climbs everytime. He definitely was the fan favourite of everybody back then. Unfortunately the context of pro cycling is what it is, you have to take something to perform and win and even though they all are more or less treated, you also have to deal with a system that decides when and how you can succeed. If Marco had signed for Mapei during 1998 summer, I'm quite sure nothing would have happened that morning at Madonna di Campiglio in 1999. Sadly he gave himself self-destruction after that, cause he felt closed in a labyrinth between public shame and awareness of being a scapegoat for a system where everybody did and kept doing the same stuff@@andresfelipe4527