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@BigFatAl
Pantani was like Anquetil or Coppi, flawed and yet he exuded something that you couldn't quite put your finger on. I accept that some of my heroes were drug takers/cheats and yet somehow they have an aura that the sterile cycling of Indurain and Armstrong could never replicate.