Cycling: The newly touted hints in the Pantani case have turned out to be false. The investigation has now been discontinued.
Italian cycling legend Marco Pantani is unlikely to have been murdered. Forensic pathologist Franco Tagliaro, who is in charge of the new investigation, has come to the conclusion that Pantani died because of his drug use. According to the report, Pantani was not attacked or beaten before his death. This confirms the initially assumed cause of death. The new evidence should have been refuted and Pantani died of a cocaine overdose.
The re-examination of Marco Pantani's body had become necessary because the lawyer for the former professional cyclist's family had presented new evidence to the public prosecutor's office. He had also complained that the investigations carried out at the crime scene in 2004 were patchy. All that remains of the reopening of the investigation is a possible defamation lawsuit, since the police officers involved in the original investigation do not want to be accused of sloppy work.