Public prosecutors in Italy have reopened the case into the death of former cycling champion Marco Pantani after new evidence emerged.
Pantani, who won the 1998 Tour de France, died in 2004 as the result of an acute cocaine overdose.
However, the news that investigators are to re-examine the case has fuelled speculation that Pantani may have been murdered.
"We have just received documents sent by those close to [Pantani] and we have opened an investigation," Paolo Giovagnoli, the public prosecutor in Rimini, told reporters.
"We will read them and if we decide to proceed with a new investigation we will appoint an examining magistrate to do so."
Pantani was 34 when he was found dead on Valentine's Day in a hotel room in Rimini.
Written by
Joe Sharratt
Joe Sharratt
