EDIT: Unsurprisingly the cause was apparently a cocaine overdose. He wasn't even in his native country when it happened.
EDIT2: I should explain. The cause of death is pulmonary embolism and preliminary exams indicate this was likely brought on by a cocaine overdose. Basically Pantani's death all over again
He only had about 2 years at top level before succumbing to the drugs, but for those two years GOD could he ride a bike. He'd win time trials and cobbled classics, tell the peloton exactly where he'd attack in LBL and then do it and win the race, and then he'd annihilate the world's best climbers on the Vuelta's mountain stages.
The talent he had was quite unreal.
Edited by issoisso on 12-10-2009 22:15
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
Stijn_vranken wrote:
belgian papers aren't mentioning any cocaine though. could you give me our source.
I don't said that he die of cocaïne, but he have take it in the past.
but is carrer look like pantani: great talent, fastly reach the top, caugth for doping when on the summit of is carreer, then a down, and finally, die young of a Pulmonary embolism in is hotel bedroom...
