Originally Posted by wabbit
I think that's one of the reasons he had kind of a bad season- after he won a stage in the tour of the med, he never quite recovered. I think Pantani's death had a lot to do with it.
In an interview, I think it was in
Procycling, Cipo himself offered another explanation. He said he messed up his season by training too hard...
You would not expect that from him--being so flamboyant, seasoned and all...