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Pantani found dead in Italian hotel

Former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani was found dead Saturday in the Italian seaside resort of Rimini, according to reports from the Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport and the ANSA news agency. Pantani's body was found on the floor near to his bed in "The Roses" hotel on the Adriatic coast, ANSA reported. The news agency reported it was not a violent death; medication was found in the fifth-floor room, but it was not immediately known if it had played any role in Pantani's death. An investigating magistrate and a doctor were in attendance at the hotel just after midnight local time

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Notes from the road: Season openers and the All-Star break

While some may consider Redlands to be the unofficial “season opener” to the U.S. road-racing calendar, it’s not like there’s really an Opening Day when everybody gets under way. Health Net-Maxxis has been racing for a week now in Malaysia, Navigators has the Tour Down Under and an Italian one-day race under its belt, and a number of pros have probably tested the waters in some warm-weather locales across the southern part of the U.S. But there’s no “pre-season” races in cycling, no exhibition games – once you start racing, everything counts. With that in mind, this weekend’s Valley of the

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Four charged in THG case

A federal grand jury charged four people on Thursday linked to the top names in international sport with 42 counts of distributing illegal steroids and human growth hormones. Following a six-month probe behind closed doors of the global sport doping scandal, U.S. officials charged Victor Conte, owner of Burlingame, California-based BALCO Laboratories, his vice-president Jim Valente, famous track coach Remi Korchemny and Greg Anderson, a personal trainer to U.S. baseball legend Barry Bonds. The four men are expected to appear in court on Friday. "While operating BALCO, Conte and others

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Notes from the road: Sailing Buicks, Navigators and a new Endeavour

Page 2 news in my local paper yesterday was the story of the 11 Cubans who tried to sail to the U.S. in a 1959 Buick. They had sealed shut the car’s doors and added a double bottom, bow and propeller. However, they were intercepted on their 90-mile journey to Florida by a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, and it was unclear whether they would be allowed to stay in the U.S. or be returned to Cuba. This wasn’t the first attempt for some of them. Some members of the group were intercepted by the Coast Guard last July, trying to make the journey in a 1951 Chevy pickup converted into a boat with

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North American News: Hyundai signs on at Sea Otter; Phinney hosts evening in Boulder

Organizers of California’s annual spring bike bash, the Sea Otter Classic, have announced that they have signed a title sponsorship agreement with Hyundai Motor America. This year’s Hyundai Sea Otter Classic Cycling Festival is scheduled for April 15-18 at Laguna Seca Recreation Area in Monterey, California. Hyundai has long been an active sports-related sponsor. Its recent partnership with the Mongoose mountain bike team marked the brand's entry into the cycling category. “Hyundai Motor America’s sports related sponsorships have proved an effective medium to promote the Hyundai Santa

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