MILAN: Organisers will be hoping home favourites Mario Cipollini and Marco Pantani can inject some much-needed glamour back into the Giro d'Italia which starts in Lecce on Saturday.
The three-week race has been tainted by drugs scandals in recent years but hopes are high of it again making the headlines for sporting reasons as world champion Cipollini attempts to break the record for the most Giro stage wins.
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