Matt DeCanio explained

Matt DeCanio
Fullname:Matthew DeCanio
Birth Date:5 April 1977
Birth Place:Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.
Weight:165lb
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Ridertype:All-around
Amateuryears1:1995-2001
Amateurteam1:US National Team
Amateuryears2:1995
Amateurteam2:G.S. Mengoni-Hot Tubes
Amateuryears3:2010
Amateurteam3:Olympique Cycliste Val d'Oise
Proyears1:1997-1998
Proteam1:G.S. Filati Alessandra[1]
Proyears2:2000
Proteam2:Linda McCartney Racing Team
Proyears3:2001
Proteam3:Saturn Cycling Team
Proyears4:2002-2003
Proteam4:Prime Alliance Cycling Team
Proyears5:2005
Proteam5:Kodak Sierra Nevada Pro Cycling
Majorwins:Stage races

Junior Killington Stage Race 1995

1st in Stage 3 Tour de Toona (USA) 2002

1st in Stage 4 Sea Otter Classic (USA) 2003One-day races and Classics

17-18 National Time Trial Champion 1995

Matt DeCanio (born April 5, 1977) is an American ex-professional racing cyclist.

DeCanio is an outspoken critic of doping in the sport, and founded the Stolen Underground anti-doping movement after voluntarily confessing to performance-enhancing drug use and serving a two-year ban for doping.[2] [3]

DeCanio was sued in 2008 by convicted doper Kayle Leogrande for defamation, after publishing a recorded telephone call between himself and Suzanne Sonye,[4] although the suit was thrown out by a judge in the Superior Court of California.[5]

In 2010 he was making a comeback to cycling, racing for French amateur team Olympique Cycliste Val d'Oise.[6]

In 2022 DeCanio wrote an autobiography detailing his entire racing career and the fallout of him calling out Lance Armstrong and others for doping, long before Armstrong admitted it. He reveals in his book how he was seen as crazy for bringing to light all the doping in the sport, as well as blacklisted, slandered, and threatened.[7]

Palmares

1995
  • 1st Junior Killington Stage Race[8]
  • 1st 17-18 Junior Time Trial Championships[9]
  • 3rd Stage 4 Tour of the Gila
    1996
  • 5th Stage 3 Hessen Rundfahrt
    1999
  • 17th ITT, U-23 World Championships
    2001
  • 10th Stage 10 (ITT) Tour de Langkawi
  • 3rd Overall Tour of Willamette[10]
  • 3rd Stage 2 Tour of the Gila
    2002
  • 2nd Overall Tour de Toona[11]
  • 1st Stage 3
  • 2nd Overall Tour de Beauce[12]
  • 3rd and Stage 4[13]
  • 3rd Stage 7
    2003
  • 5th Overall Sea Otter Classic (USA)
  • 10th Stage 2 (ITT)
  • 1st Stage 4
  • 2nd Copa America de Ciclismo, São Paulo (BRA)
  • 3rd Stage 2 Solano Bicycle Classic (USA)
  • 3rd Stage 1 Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, Royal Plaza Fitchburg (USA)

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    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Museo del Ciclismo . Museo del Ciclismo . 20 August 2022.
    2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kzQzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4AgGAAAAIBAJ&pg=7040,5966931&dq=matt+decanio&hl=en
    3. Web site: Matt DeCanio - Unchained! . VeloVeritas . 2013-10-06 . 2013-10-11.
    4. Web site: Matt DeCanio defamation case nearing end New York Daily News . Nydailynews.com . 2008-09-05 . 2012-11-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121021210506/http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/iteam/2008/09/matt-decanio-defamation-case-n.html . 2012-10-21 .
    5. Web site: Judge strikes down cyclist's suit that was meant to intimidate . NY Daily News . 2008-08-19 . 2012-11-07.
    6. Web site: de Boulangué Jean-pierre » Ven 1 Oct 2010 14:58 . 2010-10-01 . OCVO95 • Afficher le sujet - Classement National par points année 2010 . 2012-11-07 . Ocvo.fr.
    7. Book: RAC3R, The D3AD . TLO Winning Doesn't Matter . Barnes and Noble Press . 2022 . 9798823106399.
    8. Web site: DeCanio . Matt . Introducing Matt DeCanio... . Pedal Magazine . 24 August 2022 . Pedal Magazine . 11 July 2004.
    9. Web site: USA Cycling Records . USA Cycling . 20 August 2022.
    10. News: Interactive . VeloNews . Dunlap, Wohlberg shine at Tour of Willamette . 22 August 2022 . VeloNews . 15 April 2001.
    11. Web site: Cycling Archives . Cycling Archives . 21 August 2022.
    12. Web site: Tour de Beauce . tourdebeauce.com . 20 August 2022.
    13. News: Jones . Robert . Barthe takes Stage 4 at GP de Beauce; Decanio leads GC . 22 August 2022 . VeloNews . 20 June 2002.

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